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It should work. I had one for couple of weeks (that I returned as imho was sounding awful).

The audio you hear when it's booting it's the analog pass thru. Is it working with a standard cable?

Are you using the original HX Stomp power supply?

Also try with a mono adapter (female to male) as that TRS jack can create issues with the TS at the HX stomp input.

Never heard this before neither I've ever seen that error.

I'd reset the unit as this isnt normal.

The Stomp is a "hot device" out of the box. It's an extremely tight package (it tends to overheat even in the studio) and over here, when it's hot summer, I use a 120mm fan to keep it in a safer range, that I've put under the pedalboard and powered with a 9V to 5V cheap converter. It helps moving a lot if air underneath and prevents the overheating.

A sunshield is also recommended.

On 4/29/2023 at 5:37 PM, datacommando said:

 

Ah, yes! It's like deja vu, all over again.

 

I thought it was too quiet in here - we were doing really well, but here we are after 4 days!

 

So, it begins - "Update bricked my Helix!"

 

I wonder how many have held back until the weekend to do this?

 

Let's hope it's the only one on this update.

And after all these years I wonder...how difficult it can be for L6 to just add few extra lines/pages of text in that damn error screen to help the user in the process? I mean, even just a link would be better than that "boot failure. entered update mode!"

On 4/28/2023 at 10:37 AM, ACSlater said:

 

Yeah thought so.. too bad. It just so strange there's no possibility to up the brightness of the upper screen on the Rack Control.

@theElevators thanks for explaining but that's not the option I'm looking for; my question was specific about the Rack Control.

Unfortunately the main top lcd in the Helix Control board isnt the same type of screens used for the scribble strips. They could work around that limit implementing the option to switch to inverted pixel color to improve contrast. 

On 4/27/2023 at 7:49 PM, brue58ski said:

 

The people that have Alexa in their homes really need to read 1984. So instead of the government forcing you to have big brother in your home. People are choosing to put it in voluntarily. Exactly the way the powers that be want it.

This is a bit of a boomer statement.

Alexa isnt sending any audio recording to anyone, unless you dont throw a command. Of course the system is "listening" to recognize when you use the trigger phrase, but that listening is just a local routine. If Alexa would send 24/7 an audio stream from any echo station running in the world, that would just blow up their servers.

Also, you can force the system to not store any audio, which means all is happening is just a data roundtrip; trigger phrase, request sent to server, answer sent back to client,  data deleted.

It's 2023, soon AI will take over our daily jobs and govs already knows everything about us that needs to be known.

Life is too short to live wearing a tinfoil hat. :)

On 4/27/2023 at 1:46 PM, chumbo said:

Ah yes, should have mentioned it, it's a HX Stomp.
It's of course mainly a concern when gigging. Being on stage and browsing through presets and having all these changes in volume, noise of all sorts as I'm looking for the preset I want to load is pretty annoying I find.
Of course, I can think of a bunch of workarounds but it's not ideal, which is why I asked.
So it's not possible then...too bad :-(

You shouldnt browse presets in a gig.

Use snapshots to create variations (seamless changes) within the same preset, or do your own presets setlist, with only presets you use, and balance them to work as you want. You can also place a volume block in each of them, to load at volume zero.

Sorry not going to open unknown hlx files, but check if that preset is using an iR block, with a missing iR file. This is a possible cause for noise because the amp block is hitting the output without a cab or an iR.

No, there is no way to prevent a preset being loaded, if you give the unit the time to load it.

If this is annoying you that much (honestly never had a problem like that in 8 years of daily use), you can place a cheap volume pedal in front of the helix, and turn the volume down while browsing, or use PCs to call only the presets you want. 

Always do a full hard disk alias on your desktop, as this is a quick and easy way to access the entire disk. If you use the stock finder as is, it can be misleading.. :)

As I said, I was wildly assuming. No complains or being negative.

When I see no bug fixes for so many months/years, I start assuming the head programmers are busy and working on something else, while content guys are still there throwing goodies to keep the project alive, market wise.

Again, just saying based on what I've seen with HD and Firehawk and any other similar product or software I've worked with.

I'm happy with what I've, still, I'd rather have bugs and last gen OS drivers being released instead new stuff being added, but that's me - nobody cares really. :) 

All good, I'm still enjoying my HX with 3.15. 

On 4/26/2023 at 1:11 PM, brue58ski said:

What is the HX project?

Everything that is based on the HX modeling technology.

Reset the Globals.

On 4/25/2023 at 7:34 PM, theElevators said:

oh wow... more amps/cabs/effects...  why not just fix all the outstanding bugs? 

 

1. left/mono not being mono

2. bypass behavior chaos that still exists in 3.5

 

 

 

I believe the HX project is coming to a end, so they are probably just scraping the yet available market's barrel offering more toys to trigger some residual attention.

I wouldn't hold my breath on the "outstanding bugs" fixing on this phase. Probably there'll be a maintenance team later for this task.

I mean, we are still waiting for compliant Win/Mac OS drivers... :)

Just hardcore assumptions, but this always been the classic parabola of any other flagship Line 6 product.

On 4/25/2023 at 5:35 PM, daveinsa said:

This is an ancient thread, but I just got a helix in from Sweetwater. It had 3.15.0 on it. I tried doing the update and am experiencing the exact same things.

I severly doubt this is an old preset causing an issue, as the device is brand new. No amount of attempting to reinstall the firmware or any combination of holding buttons while booting has helped. I've also tried going back to 3.15.0, which the during the process of I get a bunch of errors too and then trying to update again, same thing.
I've tried multiple computers, multiple usb ports, multiple usb cables, multiple power cables, multiple power outlets, even a completely different house.
I've uninstalled everything from my computer and reinstalled just the line 6 updater. I've completely reloaded another computer so that it had the basic windows 10 and line 6 updater. Nothing has made any difference.
I've opened a ticket with Line 6, but I'm very near just sending it back to Sweetwater and ordering a headrush prime. this is ridiculous for a $1700 device.

 

Ok

If you want a full analog guitar signal hitting the audio interface, that Boss Delay pedal direct out is gonna work.

It may sounds tricky...but still better than iLok. Jeeeez...I once forgot to uninstall couple of eventide plugins from my old laptop before to trash it, and I almost had to write a begging letter to the Pope to get back that activation slot. Took more than a month to get the request approved. Viva L6! 

I still see a lot of overthinking here, probably because isnt a typical guitar controller but it's really easy stuff,

Just copy from Zoia and be happy, ;)

On 4/20/2023 at 4:28 AM, TCStuckey3 said:

It's all wired in on a pedalboard.  The looper starts up quickly, helix takes a bit.

I see.

I'm not aware of any commands being sent at boot, and I remember I used my Helix with many loopers without any issues. Today I only own the Stomp, and as far as I can see, it's not sending any MIDI at boot, apart those commands stored in the presets.

You could plug the Helix to a Midi event monitor and see what event is being sent at boot, if any.

Also, many cables and adapters from USB A to USB C are using a chip that needs to be discovered and allowed by MacOS prior any device connected to them. This means you have to unplug the Helix (and any other usb device) from those adapters each time you reboot the Mac, and re-plug after boot has completed.

Can't you just turn the Helix before the looper?

Zero issues with a MBP m1, running latest ventura.

Hi,

this is just a community forum, with basically no interactions with the L6 guys.

The right place for ideas is https://line6.ideascale.com

On 4/15/2023 at 10:17 PM, MGW-Alberta said:

Now that I am starting to understand this a little better it seems to me that the "sensor" would have to be a piece of hardware rather than a block, would it not?

I'm not yet sure how it would be connected but I suspect probably via MIDI.

I sometimes assign parameters to an expression pedal but I have to wonder if it's possible to assign parameters to another block.

I honestly don't know.  I've never heard of it being done.
Is it in fact possible?

Is there a such thing as a block that can act as a controller?

That's essentially what we're talking about, isn't it?  A controller block?
I don't think I've ever seen any other such type of block in the blocks listing.

If there is not then it seems to me if such a thing were even possible it would have to wait for firmware version 4 because that seems to me like a major revision to the operating system.
I don't know.  I could be wrong.  It wouldn't be the first time.

This envelope is ALREADY AVAILABLE inside the helix and used in all effects using the signal to drive an effect; Auto Wha. Auto Swells. Compressors, and many of those legacy effects that uses ECFs (Envelope-Controlled Filters). Calling it sensor just makes everything more confusing.

Let's take the Helix auto wah blocks. How does it works? A bandpass filter let the guitar signal pass only at a specific peak threshold and then it attenuates its shape above and under this envelope. Then they use the envelope detector (which becomes a dynamic envelope follower) to produce a control voltage from the top end of the input, this CV signal is then used to dynamically sweep the cut-off frequency of the bandpass filter, emulating the behaviour of a wah pedal. Isntead of your foot, it's the envelope detector driving the filter.

It's really easy to implememt. Line 6 just need to expose that same envelope for the user on the UI (imho the command area is the right place), and give the user the option to drive whatever parameter of any effect, using such envelope. Again, it's all there already.