craiganderton

If anyone knows how to get a dump from the Helix Floor screen, please post the answer here.

You'll be happy to hear that Sweetwater has asked for more modeling articles. They've already accepted one on how to bi-amp the Helix, and I'm submitting another one with more general Helix tips next week. It usually takes 2-4 weeks before they're published on the site, depending on the editorial cycle. They tell me the Helix is doing very well for them. :)

Thanks for the additional tip! Yes, amp volume works well too. The main reason I use buttons is for diagnostic purposes when creating presets, so it's helpful to have them all available on in one view.

Thanks, seems like a good group of folks here! Helix was love at first sight for me, so I've been working with it a lot.

In the process of creating my preset pack of 128 multiband presets for Helix, several of the presets used four bands, so it became a problem to tweak one band in isolation. I couldn't figure out a way to have a "solo" button for a path/band, so the next best thing was to be able to mute the other bands. Referring to the screen shot of a 4-band preset, I added a Volume block in each path (outlined in orange), and set the gain parameter to -120. Enabling the Volume block would then mute the sound; bypassing it removed the mute. The Volume block has a very low CPU hit, so after developing the presets I often left the mute button in anyway. This allowed creating Snapshots that had only some bands, which were musically useful as well as the main preset. I thought the mute button concept was a helpful diagnostic tool, and worth sharing in the forum. If you find this kind of thing useful, I'd be happy to post some more tips.

I looked into parallel processing extensively when doing my multiband processing preset pack. So to add to your tips, here are some more. Some amps draw a lot more CPU power than others. So how many amps you can add depends on the amps+cabs you choose. In my 4-band presets using the Brit Trem Jump, Brit Plexi Jump, Solo Lead OD, and German Mahadeva, it wasn't possible to have four Amp+Cabs without running out of CPU. However, a workaround that works well is to use two separate Amps, and feed them into one Cab. You lose the ability to tweak each cab individually, but many times, it's the amps that benefit the most from tweaking anyway. Although this doesn't apply to your situation where you're feeding into the Guitar and Aux In to get stereo, for a given amount of blocks, a parallel path within a single chain will run out of CPU faster than a single path within two chains, set to the same input (e.g., Host in Helix Native). One of my favorite aspects of Helix is how you can get really great stereo imaging out of it. This isn't always relevant to live use, but for the Native version, it's incredible to get stereo imaging without having to use delays or other workarounds :)