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DI USB reamp channels are 5 and 6. To avoid hearing the dry from HX Stomp, add a volume block and set it to minimum. This way you should only hear the DI passing through the DAW without the dry signal passing through the preset.

If you are getting crackles and pops I dont think its an AV problem, that was more a thing of the past with old gen invasive AVs. Windows defender is fine, just avoid disks scanning while doing music. Crackles and pops on a windows machine are more because too low audio buffer for the driver/system to handle, hard fault pages and random DPC calls. Suggest you to read this very solid guide to DAW optimization, especially for realtime VST (it's free); https://www.cantabilesoftware.com/glitchfree/

They are available at Thoman in good stock, but Line 6 expressly forbidden the shipping to US of his products. This company is acting weird lately, like doing everything they can to be abandoned from customers...

The only thing that matters for me it's how an instrument feels in my own hands. Everything else, really, I couldn't care less. I do have a big collection of guitars (from very expensive USA CS to cheap MiC), the only thing that I can really say it does differ, even between identical guitars, it's how they feels and react to my fingers. That's some sort of magics that can happen or not, doesn't matter how expensive, what wood or what pickup. My best instruments in terms of feeling, aren't the most expensive. It's a random thing, that I can't control in any way. Since the electric guitar, like any other instrument, does interact with the player (affecting the quality of the playing), I will keep thinking this is the most important thing when I buy them. Then, big variable when it's about electric guitars, it's what genre you do play and how you are processing your raw tone. Tonewood it's just a waste of time. :)

This could help you understanding how it works;

That's why clock and sync pulse exists; you dont just need to send a start command (that can drift depending on latency, buffers, jitter, dpc etc etc), but also how match the tempo of the master clock (through regular pulses timed as fraction of the BPM), and also stop commands. Even clocked loopers can drift as MIDI clock does suffer from heavy midi traffic, so unless it's just a clock being sent, even a wired clock couldnt be enough to keep things in sync. Usually you find this feature on high end loopers, but again, isnt a bullet proof system. Helix just doesnt respond to MIDI Sync so you cant do it. The only looper that I managed to have respecting clock and stay in sync forever without drifting, is the Echoplex Digital Pro Plus....yep, a 30 years old piece of gear.

You need a clock, and Helix looper doesnt respond nor generate any clock or sync pulse. You are just sending midi commands, which isnt enough to keep things in sync.

You probably had a previous silent loop in memory, so you were overdubbing on a pre-existent closed cycle instead recording a new one.

After lot of tests, my suggestion for M1 users is to NOT install the L6 drivers and just use the native core audio from apple. You still have access to all Helix/HX USB channels, but you can only work at 48Khz. M1 doesnt like high buffer numbers (as those you need to use with L6 drivers), as the system think it's a low demanding task and assign the pipeline to the Efficiency Cores, which are weaker and easier to clip. Yes, with M1 the higher the buffer, the worse. At least until they will give devs the proper access to core priority. Just as example, using HXStomp as interface on this macbook (M1 pro CPU10/GPU16), I can go with 32samples at 48Khz with 8ms (4+4) roundtrip. That's great for playing AU plugins and softsynths. With L6 drivers you need much higher buffer, which means more latency and more CPU because it runs on E cores... On the other hand, an old Scarlett 6i6 runs like a rocket on these machines.

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So in the end I have seen that all HX software for mac is running as "intel" process which means Rosetta is mandatory. As far as I can say, and unless I really missed something obvious, this statement isnt true. Apple Silicon Support Helix Native The Helix Native VST/AU/AAX plug-in now natively supports M1 and newer Apple computers without Rosetta. NOTE: HX Edit software has worked with M1 Macs from day one.

Hi folks, I was excited to install HX Edit and Native on a brand new MacBook Pro M1 (Monterey), and from what I've read around I was sure they were both running native (Universal), without the Rosetta subsystem for the Intel instructions. Reality is I'm being asked to install Rosetta as soon as I try to install HX Edit 3.51 or Native 3.51, which I DON'T WANT TO DO as it does bottleneck Ableton Live and everything else running into it. Am I missing something?

All HX drivers arent compliant with W11 core isolation so the only option you have is to turn memory integrity off.

It will never happen. :)

Yep seems working.

Full backups working fine here.

That's a good starting point

That's not a good approach. You should not use the output block level as this is a boost (post gain), which means pulling hiss from noise floor and squeezing headroom.

It's odd but not impossible. That's why you have the option to buy matched studio monitors, which means the two units are identical and produced in the same batch. Said that, could be they got a very different use (and a different speaker breakup during the first period of life of the speakers, might be the cause of a slightly different timbre or response).

AI and soundcard are the same thing, and you cant aggregate two interface without getting terrible results, especially on a PC (also not possible with native drivers). You just need an audio interface with better drivers. USB is fine, just try to use a port which isnt part of a chipset hub. Not mandatory, but does helps reducing potential extra calls. **Unless you have pro grade expensive stuff in mind, an Internal PCI-e audio card is a thing from the past.

Your Helix DOES NOT HAVE SPDIF, so you cant use that connection. There are many variables to consider, and these are different for every single machine, so we cant tell you for sure what it will give you a solid, low latency click/pop free experience. Latency is just the relationship between buffer and sample rate (this is a simplification I know), but there are many other factor to consider, that could make a great driver unable to deliver its best performance due other system bottlenecks (DPC calls, hard pages faults, CPU spikes, I/O speeds etc...). To make it simple, I would just buy a cheap and solid Scarlett 2i2, (using standard connections, so it's gonna be Helix(A/D/A)---->Scarlett (A/D/A). That said, Im sorry, but I doubt you can go under 10ms for a complete round trip with all these conversions. Another option could be Native VST, running on that DAW, and being processed by a Scarlett 2i2. At that point you'd get pretty much the half of the round trip latency at buffer/sampling parity, because you removed the first ADA cycle from the LT.

WiFi 2.4Ghz pollution is crazy high these days. Hard to find a place with a clean channel, and consumer products like the G10 arent able to filter out interferences, so they are extremely sensible to that aspect. G10 is 7 years old product, and when it has been released the situation was way better than today. Also, this is even worse on those countries with edge channels restrictions. I was a very happy customer for the G10, with 3 of these toys, but these days they are all parked in a closet because the continous drops (g10S even worse).

Helix Drivers are terrible for LIVE playing, that's all you need to know. :) I never use them as latency is way too high, even on top performance machines. I have few other audio interfaces (MOTU, Scarlett, Behringer), and all of them outrun the Helix drivers. Scarett is the one that gives me the best buffer/latency in terms if reliability. As for the Helix drivers, ASIO4All to the rescue. ;)

Action too low Fret buzz/rocking frets Pickups too close to the strings