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HX Stomp Owner's Manual PDF → page 18

@Teerexness, you're literally barking up the wrong tree. ;) This is a user-to-user forum. Hence:

Which MacOS version are you using?

In Global Settings > Preferences make sure to set EXP/FS Tip to FS4 and EXP/FS Ring to FS5. If it's set to EXP1/2, the switches won't work because the Stomp logically expects an expression pedal. Other than that, the Ampero Switch is a rock solid device that just works.

Das tönt zimlech schwyzerisch… :)

Meanwhile I have updated the Stomp to 3.80 using my MacBook Air running Ventura. All good, no issues. Back on the MacBook Pro running El Capitan, the Stomp v3.80 is still fully usable and even editable via HX Edit 3.70, just without the new amps/cabs/fx, as expected. Presets with new blocks will appear blank, so just make sure you don't overwrite those blocks when editing something else. Line 6 Updater v1.28 will recognize the device as well and offer the previously available firmware versions up to 3.71. So a downgrade should be still possible on unsupported MacOS (I haven't tested it!)

Probably by the same method as on unsupported MacOS: download the actual firmware file for offline use use the Line 6 Updater app to upload it to your device

Definitely! Neither have I. At the moment I'm only playing an acoustic upright bass, and all I need on my Stomp for that is a parametric EQ and a gentle noise gate. If I need the Stomp at all, that is… (In fact, all I need for band rehearsals at the moment is an "antique" Boss GE-10 EQ and an old powered Yamaha 12" PA box ;)

HX Edit 3.80 now requires MacOS Catalina, so if you have to update a device using an older Mac, you'd need Line 6 Updater. See:

So do I. But I'm actually trying to do more editing directly on the Stomp anyway so that I'm not totally lost when using it on stage… Yeah, that sucks if you don't have any Mac that can boot Catalina or higher. I've been keeping my old Macs at El Capitan for a reason, of course: Compatibility with "obsolete" Firewire audio interfaces. M-Audio FW410 from 2003 (!) runs only with some user-hacked drivers on El Capitan, but it continues to work after 21 years. Alesis iO26 works even up to Catalina but the software only up to Mojave because it's 32-bit only. On the other hand, last year I bought the Roland Octa-Capture to have an 8-channel USB interface compatible with Apple Silicon. A brilliant interface! And not only does Roland still keep its drivers up to date, they have drivers compatible back to OS 10.4 Tiger; hey that's from… 2005! (Heck, I still have a working PowerBook G4 that can run Tiger and Leopard) Summed up, El Capitan is exactly the sweet spot where I can do multitrack recording with four audio interfaces bundled as an Aggregate Device: iO26, FW410, Octa-Capture, and HX Stomp. That makes 18 XLR inputs, plus the 4 jack inputs from the Stomp. I expect the Stomp should still work as a USB interface on unsupported OS. If not, I'd simply downgrade back to v3.71. There's nothing in v3.80 that I need. (I wonder if they fixed the bug I have reported…?) I don't know, I'm not a software developer. It's just a "quarter-educated" guess based on my three and a half decades of intrepid poking into software directories that an average Mac user should usually leave alone.

Not necessarily. They just may have to resort to the slightly tedious and potentially risky manual process using the Line 6 Updater: I haven't tested it though so proceed at your own risk…

Yep, no go on El Capitan, requires Catalina. The reason being that according to its Info.plist file, v3.80 has been compiled under MacOS Sequoia Big Sur so the backward compatibility has shifted. Whereas last year's v3.70 was compiled under Catalina which is why it still was "inofficially" compatible with El Capitan, and theoretically even back to Mountain Lion according to its Info.plist (I didn't test it). Still, my old MacBook Pro mid-2012 can boot Catalina. So HX Edit 3.80 will still run on a 12 years old machine. Only my even older MBP 2008 – which usually serves as my mobile multitrack recording studio – is out of luck… Oh well, that's life. :D Now… to put things in the right perspective: Apple has just released the Logic Pro 11.1 update these days. Guess what the requirements are? Sonoma! And I'm out of luck here because I won't upgrade my MacBook Air running Ventura – an OS that's only two years old! – anytime soon. :/

"10.15" = Catalina Also, from the HX Edit download page: For what it's worth, HX Edit v3.70 still runs even on El Capitan although unsupported. So I'll check v3.80 for El Capitan compatibility soon.

Is it? Yes, I use it for guitars and basses. Of course. But I also use it in Logic Pro on Aux busses e.g. PolyPitch as a stereo doubler, or the Hot Springs reverb, or the RetroReel on the master bus. Now, Logic has enough great plugins built in, so that Native is not necessarily "essential". But if I were using another DAW I would likely make use of Native way more often.

Yes. Knob 1 on my Stomp has this issue since a year or two, sometimes making huge jumps back and forth, regardless the speed I'm rotating it. It takes some patience to dial the intended value, e.g. when using the parametric EQ where I want to use a specific frequency band. I haven't tried to fix it yet because I don't edit parameters directly on the Stomp very often. But I may try the aforementioned DeoxIT D5 to see if it helps Also, footswitches 2 and 3 are beginning to react slightly erratically, so those are also candidates for a contact cleaning attempt.