DaemonSlayer

just incase anyone comes across this to find out how the helix floor and katana head work together. Well they work great. I have a katana amp and cab, but also have a pa speaker. now going through the power amp section of the katana is the best experience for me when not using the cabs and speaker sims, But if i want to use the cab emulation with the amps, then I connect the boss katana head to a pa speaker.

its a great effect for recreating the sounds of 8 bit systems like nintendo or sega.

I have recently decided to use this pedal as alternative to electro harmonix mainframe. way I combat the wet and dry, though not fully, is by turning the guitar volume down.

hi there, i know it is an old post, but just wondering how you got the hd 500x to work with the macbook pro 2012? I have a macbook pro 2012 and never got it to work.

so they still haven't done a usb driver. purchased a 2012 macbook pro just to program the pedal board, so i could upgrade from the 2010 macbook pro, but the macbook pro won't even recognise the hd500x. my windows pc also can't be used to program it. the mac pro is the only device i have with ability to program the pod hd. Just a quick question. what device did you use before to program the hd500x? this also maybe useful

Hi maybe I can help for anyone who is switching to the new Apple M1 chip macs. as confirmed there are no drivers for the Hd500x and even though line 6 were happily selling this device with its driver problems (Usb 3 issues), they probably won’t be making an updated driver. Would be nothing for them to code it as a company, but could be amazing for us who want to upgrade to newer machines or use these through usb3 ports on machines which don’t have usb2. anyway solution for those who want to record through the device onto Mac. the. Hd500x has line out which I always used to record the guitar with effectsWith a field recorder direct to logic. So cheap solution is line out from hd 500x to line in on the Mac. If you don’t have a line in, then getting another device, (I used a zoom h6 field recorder) connected to usb.m, also a mixer connected through usb would work too, though check with each manufacturer on compatibility. this is also a windows problem. One of my friends told me “what do you expect with Apple”. so I tried it on my gaming pc. No usb2 port. It didn’t work.

Are you using the newer mac with the m1 chip?

I don’t even have a virus scanner. I also don’t have any usb 2 ports on my pc. All I get is blue screen. Always have.

Use an older Mac with usb 2 ports. It is the only way it will work fully. It won’t even work on my pc with usb 3. Only reason I still keep my old Mac and haven’t upgraded. Well with pc windows 10, the device blue screens my gaming computer. It’s a fault with line 6 making crap drivers.

I use a Mac to update it. It’s not compatible with my pc. My pc has usb 3 no usb 2 apart from at front which use a hub. The Mac Pro is usb 2 so which Mac do you have? Was thinking about getting the newer Mac mini for work.

just thought I would chime in with my experience of owning the variax standard for 1 day. gear I already had before purchasing the variax is the line 6 DT25, which I use only at home, but also have used the xlr to record from the amp. So finally got the variax standard and charged the battery. I then instantly tried the accoustic modelling once the battery had charged. I was blown away by the sound plugged direct into the DT25. I also have the pod hd500x and using the acoustic modelling with headphones sound even better, so I will have to use different amp models for acoustic. this guitar will make an excellent studio guitar with the different models you can get, and depending on amp/pa could use the acoustic models for live play.