Hi all.
I am new user of the HX Stomp Red Edition. Because I use it only at home (sadly I am no longer guitarist in a band...) I like to control things with my pc-keyboard.
Luckily I found a free commandline-midi-tool named https://github.com/gbevin/SendMIDI/releases" sendmidi.exe" from a brilliant dutch guy. My part was only to program a user interface to send the available midi-cc commands to
the hx stomp. It works surprisingly well. But try it for yourself. It is completely open source and does not need to be installed. I programmed it with "AutoHotKey". I f you like to improve the code or edit it to your personal needs, feel free to do so : You could
decompile the EXE to change things to your personal needs or make it somehow more pretty. Easier is, to open the exe with notepad - at the end of all the cryptic signs you seebthe blank source code, which you can edit now.
Preparations:
You need the program AND the above mentioned sendmidi.exe both in the same place (I don't bundle both programs - I don't know if the author of sendmidi.exe allows that). Your HX Stomp has to be ON and connected to your Windows-Computer
via USB. Normally that's it. If you now start my program, also starts a blank command-line-window. It should show already the place where the two exe-files are located. You can first send the command "sendmidi.exe dev list" to see if your device named "Line 6 HX Stomp" is an available MIDI-Out-Device. As sendmidi.exe does not force you to write the exact devicename,
I coded the commands by only "Line". Therefore there is a good chance, that your different device, lets say Line 6 Helix, can also be remote-controlled (at least the few things, that can be changed via midi-cc).
And of course: if you like to conrol the builtin looper, the 1switch-looper has to be present in your Patch...
One thing I could not manage to script properly is to send the exact bpm-tempo. You can insert e.g. 120 to the edit-field and the result will be a little different. Shame on me. Or you tap your tempo....
By the way: sendmidi is also available for mac and linux. But my script is only for Windows.
Have Fun
Line6HXStompRemoteV1.1.exe