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Appreciate your assistance. Much more help than anywhere I have reached out to, including Guitar Center and Sweetwater!

Apogee Ensemble. Does the USB connection allow control of the Helix Rack for programming patches within the computer, or is it just as interface? Can I run it from Helix Native?

Thanks for the knowledgeable info. So Helix Rack doesn’t have balanced outs without processing? Damn. I currently use an Ensemble. I had no interest in the USB interface, being compared to thunderbolt with the Apogee. To to take up half the processing for DI is kinda foolish isn’t it? what do you recommend for splitting signals before the helix? thanks

Howdy For a few years (since it came out) I've been using Helix Native in the box. Sounds amazing, but there's a latency issue when tracking songs with large track counts, even though I'm using a MacPro, Apogee and Live 10 Suite. I can only use a 64bit buffer if I'm down to say, 3 tracks. Since we started using a bunch of analog synths, we picked up an SSL SiX, and are running things into it analog before going to DAW. To try to be analog again, I've been using a Mesa Boogie Rectifier Preamp, and damn it if I can't get rid of the fizz in the high gain. I have tried most everything, including putting a UA LA-610 Preamp in front of it, and its still not as smooth as Helix Native. (My favorite patch is the Dirty Placater) The boogie also sounds inconsistent. I swear every time I turn it on, it needs 15 minutes of tweaking. So I am thinking about going Helix Rack outboard - and also use the effects on our synths instead of my Lexicon MPX-1. Have any of you used the effects like this? Can I run a clean signal into my DAW to reamp with Helix Native? Can I mess with my patches on my computer and copy them to the Rack unit so I'm not dinking with the knobs on it? And lastly, can I count on no latency out of the Helix Rack? Thanks for your input