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I don't know what exact synth sounds you need, just maybe pads in that particular song? I don't hear anything prominent. In terms of organ sounds, I use the 3 tone generator, run it through a 12 string sim, and have a Leslie, and save pitch settings in snapshots. That way I can have a backing organ track for myself. Some snapshots can have the Leslie on, some off, so Leslie can spin up, slow down. I also have a song where I simulate a Leslie by having a very high distortion signal where the guitar feeds back on its own. I run that through a Leslie, and as the feedback happens, the chord morphs and sounds like an organ player is changing the drawbar settings. Also, I control the Leslie spinning speed with the exp pedal. Finally, there are a bunch of legacy synth sounds that were added in 3.15. You can use them to shape your sound, add some harmonies, using smart harmonizer. They are all quite finicky, and I quickly realized that I personally could not get anything useful out of them, but that's me. Plus I had to downgrade to 3.11 due to an EXP pedal bypass bug.

Just out of curiosity, did this happen on 3.15? What I do is I have 2 folders (set lists) of identical presets. Just in case I manage to mess up something, I have another identical folder of presets. Plus I religiously back things up every time I change something, and email the backup to myself. So if something ever happens, I can theoretically restore from a backup, all I need is a printer cable and a laptop. If it's an important show, and I manage to have this problem, I have this option. You're more than likely to find somebody who has a laptop and a printer cable, no matter what part of the world you are in.

To me 3.15 is unusable due to the horrible bypass bug. Yes, factory reset fixes it. It will be back in a couple of weeks, not to worry!

I tried it just because I like to clean the in/out jacks.. Yep same exact thing. Sorry... PS: I used DeoxIT I work as a computer developer and constantly diagnose / fix things on a daily basis. Many times with the Helix I was able to isolate and later on describe the exact bug to Line 6, given I know how to replicate it. This is not a hardware issue, since it first appeared on my LT, then a brand-new Floor. It makes no sense, but the bug will come up after some time.

In my case, I do not change anything with Global Settings at all. Then a few weeks later the problem just develops by itself. Yes, for sure it is due to some settings, but they remain unchanged for me. The only thing that I do with the Helix is play it and back up/restore. I don't tweak my settings at all.

I'm pretty sure that the issue will come to the surface after you create a backup with HX Edit and possibly restore from the backup. My XLR Outs behave as expected: Left/Mono is always Mono by itself. The issue is only with 1/4 inch outputs. Thanks.

Helix Floor Backup 2022-May-09.hxb Here you go! I mean the fact that the issue disappears after a reset, means it is a bug. I have the "sound check" preset where you should be able to hear the issue... Let us know.

The video I posted explains how it is a software bug, and not a hardware problem. I repeat: it is NOT a hardware issue. Support people at Line 6 tell recreated the bug on 2.82 and then never again. I find it very difficult to believe they don't have any bug tracking systems, like in the IT world DevTrack, Jira, I don't know..... The best they can do is "we will try to fix it in the upcoming release, without giving you any tracking number whatsoever." So sure enough 3.15 fixed it -- yay, for a week, until I backed up/restored my presets and it came back.

With me, I don't change any settings at all... I just do a few back up/restores and I think that is what does it... Because at home I have 2 things plugged into left/right (my mixing monitors), I can never catch it.... ugh lol

I went and ordered a 1/4 inch mono TS Female to 2 x 1/4 inch Male Mono TS Y splitter cable on eBay and it works like a charm. https://www.ebay.com/itm/152233551323 How about we all open tickets to explain we are experiencing this... If many of us do this, Line 6 can't keep ignoring it? I just opened a new one. Do we really need an Ideascale entry for this? lol

The Command center allows you customize every single button on the Helix. You can link several presets together, which is what you are trying to do. Just watch this video, and it'll make sense.... so. Use the Command Center and assign the up/down buttons to link to to the desired presets. You are in preset 1. You press the "up" button and it takes you to preset 2 snapshot 7....etc... and so on...... when you are in preset 4, the up button will link you to preset 1, snapshot 1. This way you can cycle through your 4 presets. You have effectively linked 4 presets together because you assigned the up button to take you to the desired preset.

so... the pitch wham is a weird effect for me. When I turn it on/off I hear a sound interruption, like you hear when you change presets. So... I have to time my playing so that that does not happen. I put the block in the beginning of the chain. However, it is completely possible to turn on/off any block, by doing "bypass assign". Lots of videos out there that show you how to do that, for example for your auto-bypassed wah-wah pedal: you control the bypass and the sweep of the wah.

Gain, or volume pedal, or a cabinet, or mono delay will all do it. Yep. Or simply substitute all the Stereo block for their mono counterparts.

Well, you can certainly do that by simply putting a mono block at the very end, that will do it. But the whole point of the Helix for me was to have stereo arena-ready sound. Some people will argue that it's a waste of time and impractical, but I spent a lot of time having these subtle special effects in my sounds.

Maybe if enough people open tickets describing this exact problem, show screenshots of the forum, Line 6 will acknowledge it. I opened 3 tickets so far.

It will never break during a performance, unless somebody powers down your Helix, which is extremely unlikely.

I meant to say on both of my Helixes that I own. I have a Floor and an LT and use them interchangeably, depending on the level of the gig. Here's a little video I just made, in case people are still confused by the bug/workaround:

It's a software glitch. Do an experiment with prominent left/right/left/right delay with Left and Right cables plugged in. Now unplug the right cable, power down the Helix with only Left cable plugged in, power it up -- if you hear only one half of your stuff then you have successfully recreated the bug. The software glitch is that it does not sum the signal to mono initially. After plugging/unplugging, it does.

high-five!! it's a bug. It's a bug that always resurfaces on 2 of my Helixes. It can be resolved temporarily by doing a system reset. What is the bug: left/right/left delay will sound like left .. left when you plug in your cable into the left/mono jack instead of combining it into mono as all normal pieces of gear do. At this point, after being gaslighted by the Line 6 support, I accepted it as something I need to live with. Line 6 will never recreate it, as it develops over time. What exactly causes it to resurface? Some combination of global settings. What to do about it: 1. Power on the Helix 2. plug a cable into the "Right" jack 3. unplug the cable and plug into the "Left/Mono" jack NOW your Left/Mono is actually "Mono". 4. have a "sound check" preset with left/right delay to confirm you are good I learned this the hard way when I was playing at a festival outdoors. I had to play an equivalent of a Sweet Child O' Mine intro that had very prominent ping-pong delay. Well, because of this bug, because my sound on stage was coming out of a big Marshall Stack, it made that legendary and recognizable intro sound like UTTER CRAP. The Marshall's one-sided delay made the entire mix horrible. I thought I would die. Now, I always put the sound check preset as my preset #0. This way before I start the first song I can be assured that both left/right channels are fine in the house, and on stage. PS, you should create a ticket and mention this, after which they will offer you to send in your Helix because they will suggest it is a hardware issue.

There is one song in my set that has a very sudden solo with a wah-wah that also rapidly ends. So I assigned all my lead sound ingredients to the same EXP 2 that controls the wah-wah using %threshold value. So I have wah, EQ, delay, all engaged when EXP 2 is over 5%. Then when it's less than 5% (pedal at heel position) all of those turn off 1/2 seconds after, and the delay a second later. You can stagger how things get turned off for a more smooth transition. So maybe that's something else you can try.

Dynamic split's main advantage is to be able to turn yourself down for rhythm, and turn yourself up for lead without pressing anything on the Helix itself. I don't have any use for it at the moment, but if I were on a wireless in some Cirque du Soleil show (lol), I could turn down my volume knob to 5 and have my rhythm sound; turn up the volume knob to 10 and have my lead sound. So something like: dry medium crunch vs. delay + reverb + EQ + existing path.

Yes. Very easy to do it. You can bypass 10 different things with the expression pedal. In each snapshot you mix out all your unneeded blocks. You assign the mix parameter to your snapshots: that way you can specify how much of each block you want in each snapshot. 0%= it’s effectively bypassed. My example: I control wah and vibrato with the same exp 2. In one snapshot the wah block is mixed at 0%, while the vibrato is at 60%. The other has the wah mixed at 100%, while the vibrato is mixed at 0%. Again, at 0%, bypassing and un-bypassing a block makes no sonic difference. When blocks are ar 0%, it doesn’t matter what settings they have. Make sense?

I bought a pod go recently to use as a backup. I connected both the Helix and the Pod Go to my computer to use 2 editors at the same time and recreated all the settings one by one. Nearly everything I needed translated well, except the lack of the parallel effects loop for my delays. So I just A/B'ed them until they sounded close.

Oh yes! My Strat's sound varies greatly depending on the height of the pickups... from completely dead to loud/clipping.