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Hi All. Opinions and experiences wanted - I know there's no "right" answer here. I currently have an HX Effects and am getting on nicely with it. However, due to space/soundproofing issues I'm pondering a home and performing setup without my Orange Rocker 15. My current thoughts: i) Get an Amp in a box (BluGuitar or Amplifire or other similar) which I put in an HX loop and go out to a L6 Powercab and FOH for Gigs. ii) p/x the HX for a Helix Floor, go out of that into L6 Powercab and FOH for gigs. Ta.

Aha. Well - at least I'm not doing anything dumb then :) Thanks Phil! D.

Hi Phil. Thanks for the detailed reply. I get how the Instant's work - and I've got everything set up on channels etc. It all works in terms of sending stuff correctly (I'm actually pretty good at MIDI...I control all my Preset changing on the HX from an iPad lyric App; I select a new song, and the HX changes to that preset and the correct snapshot to start the song with), it's how the HX snapshots are storing and copy/pasting that I have issues with. I guess I my query boils down to this... I populated a whole batch of presets with a "baseline" preset to work from - it saved me doing things like setting up my Amp Switcher button every time I built in a new preset. As part of that, I also set up default Instant Commands with PC 0 to go to both my MIDI pedals (on their separate channels). Again, the idea was to not need to set up the two Instant Commands with the MIDI channel everytime I wanted a new preset. All I thought I would have to do is change the PC for each in Snapshot 1, then build from there, copying and pasting that snapshot for each part of that song. So, I go into a preset to set it up for a song. For this song, I go into snapshot mode and program snapshot 1, changing the Instant Commands PC msg relevant to that tune. This works fine. I can leave the preset, come back to it and, as long as I saved it to snapshot 1, the correct PC is sent. I then Copy/Paste the snapshot to a new snapshot to work on the sounds for the chorus/lead/whatever. In this new snapshot (which I've copied from my correctly setup one), the Instant Command messages do not get copied over. They stay the same as the "baseline" preset I originally had and send the PC 0's I set up in that baseline; I would expect the new snapshot to be exactly the same as the one I copied. In essence - copy/paste in snapshots is not copy/pasting Instant Commands. I couldn't see the Duplicate PC function in the HX manual - shame - that would be perfect and is the sort of functionality I was after when I set out how I would expect it to work in my first post. Rgds, D.

Hi All. First post here. Have read lots of good stuff on here since buying my HX a month or so ago. I do love it and don't miss my Boss ES-5 setup with Mobius and other assorted pedals at all! I'm pretty good with MIDI (from my 90's days when all my synths/effects were outboard!) but have some observations and thoughts on MIDI instant command/Snapshot/Preset interactions that I'd be interested in feedback on. To my mind, it should (logically) work thus (and I'm only dealing with PC messages here...): In Preset mode, you set up your MIDI messages using the Instants in the Command Centre. These would be the default MIDI messages for the whole preset. Within a snapshot, you should be able to change the instant, or have it default to the ‘Preset’ one set up above either by having no instant at all, or a "preset default" option. I use Midi (for my H9 and Elektron Analog Drive) and snapshots (I use one preset per song and the snapshots for the different sounds within a song) and it doesn’t seem to work in a consistent way for me. For instance : I set up one snapshot as a default for a song and copy the snapshot to make changes for different sections. The Instants do not copy across. If I remove an instant from a snapshot (as the snapshot doesn't need to change any MIDI values) the Instant MIDI command is removed totally across all snapshots and the preset. I'm quite sure this is just me not fully understanding how Instants and Snapshots interact! Anyone got any definitive answers on how Snapshot Instant’s work. I’ve fudged my way through (checking each snapshot’s Instant values) and have the unit setup as I want now but would like to now the official line on how it is supposed to work for future programming. Ta, David.