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Also, the latest Sonoma update apparently breaks something in the auvaltool. This is currently being discussed over at logicprohelp.com/forums/topic/150906-macos-sonoma-is-out-please-report-any-plug-in-incompatibilities/?do=findComment&comment=898266
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Just don't upgrade the OS if everything runs smooth for you. Until August 2023 my MacBook Pro mid-2012 was happily running El Capitan. And it still is. (It also has other bootable partitions from Mountain Lion up to Catalina, but El Capitan is it for me, for many reasons.) Heck, even the latest Helix Native and HX Edit are still compatible with El Capitan, although not officially supported by Line 6 anymore. There is an issue with automatic updates but the rest works just fine. I also have a new MacBook Air M2 15". It will happily run Ventura for many years to come. Sonoma et al my behind. (Disclosure: I do have a spare bootable volume with Sonoma for testing purposes. Just in case. Additional volumes are easy to create via Disk Utility on the fly nowadays. No need to reformat drives anymore, thanks to APFS.)
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From the Helix Native Pilot's Guide:
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Slightly confusingly, if "Snapshot Bypass" has a check mark, then it will remember its saved snaphot state. To be completely "snapshot agnostic", the check mark needs to be off. Also remember to save the preset to library before switching to another one.
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Wishful thinking for the next firmware update 3.71 and beyond!
lou-kash replied to Bgrudz2021's topic in Helix
My solution while I was playing a Les Paul for a few years: freewayswitch.com/products You need compatible humbuckers, of course. (Les Paul sold in the meantime but I kept the humbuckers and the switch. Eventually I may put them either into my Ibanez semi-acoustic or my old Epiphone Emperor jazz guitar…)- 22 replies
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Helix Native code -1116 'Could not decrypt the asset'
lou-kash replied to supertonic_jack's topic in Helix Native
Another cause for code -1116: Copying or syncing the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Line 6/Helix Native between different Macs. I thought it used to work with earlier Native versions though, since I've been syncing the folder between two MacBooks running El Capitan for a few years now. But now the sync doesn't work between El Capitan and Ventura MacBooks. (As a side note: Helix Native 3.71 still works on El Capitan within Logic 10.3.3 although not officially supported by Line6 anymore.) So my fix was resetting the setlists and presets and reimporting my custom setlists on each Mac. -
Then you need very short attack times in the compressor to tame the loud transients that occur when picking a string regularly, as opposed to the very soft transient when tapping.
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I would check out the Blue Comp in the "Legacy" section. It's supposed to be modeled after the Boss CS-1. I've never had a CS-1 but I have been using a Boss CS-3 since the mid-1980s, in recent years particularly for acoustic slide guitar, until I bought the HX Stomp. "CS" stood for "Compression Sustainer", and sustain is apparently what you want.
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I've been already using the Stomp as a 4-channel mixer with two vocal mics and two acoustic guitars. It was a bit tricky to set up because technically it's two parallel signal pairs, each then processing two signals in series, but it worked just fine. Other than that, for one of my projects I'm using one path for acoustic bass guitar, the other path for my "electrified plank bass drum", the Stomp going either into my small stage combo or additionally straight into PA. It just works, be it in small pubs or in concert halls. However, when setting up two parallel paths for guitar and bass, each with its own amp and cab, you may run into DSP limits on the Stomp if you choose amps that are DSP hungry. Here you can look up how much DSP each block requires: benvesco.com/store/helix-dsp-allocations Del Sol 300 (bass) and US Small Tweed (guitar) are the best options if you want to have enough headroom for a few nifty effects as well.
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Preset with 3/4 snapshots for CLEAN, CRUNCH, LEAD sounds. Which amp ?!
lou-kash replied to vincentm77's topic in Helix
The new Line 6 Carillon works pretty well for me like this. But I don't need too "heavy" lead sound, more bluesy, playing a semi-acoustic Ibanez with humbuckers. -
Macbook Pro headphone (audio out) - connecting to Helix
lou-kash replied to mrmichaelgibson's topic in Helix
Don't know about other Helix models, but on the HX Stomp, if you use the Return input as Aux In, you need to switch Global Settings → Ins/Outs → Return Type to Aux In to bypass the processing. (page 51 of HX Stomp 3.0 Owner's Manual - Rev D - English) -
It would be nice to have more controls e.g. directly on the input block where the noise gate is. Perhaps it's been already requested on Ideascale? Ah, there it is: https://line6.ideascale.com/c/idea/33459 I've never tried open D, but in the 1980s I was experimenting with open E for some time while learning to play slide. By the end of the 1990s I switched to bass guitar almost full time but "rediscovered" the guitar after both guitarists left our acoustic blues combo and I remained just with the singer. That's when I went full open G about 10 years ago. Eventually I brought in a guitarist from another band of mine, "forced" him to play open G (he soon started to love it!), and I switched back to acoustic bass guitar. But I also sometimes perform my solo program which is fully based on the acoustic open G with slide, although I call it "Lou Kash plays a kind of blues", hehe. Since summer 2020 I run everything through the Stomp, sometimes even a vocal mic. The Stomp can handle so much! :)
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Just curious: which open tuning do you use? I'm a total fool for open G, since many years on an acoustic with or without slide, to the excess that when I eventually (but temporarily) joined a band as an electric guitarist again a few years back, I realized that I almost forgot how standard tuning works… :D
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Not necessarily. You can also simply just turn down the volume on the guitar which is not in use. But keep in mind that the cable can still pick up noise. That's why a mute on the Stomp is useful.
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Of course. That's the point, or not? Or do you want to play both guitars at the same time? As I have noted, you want to use a footswitch or a snapshot to switch between input L and input R. On Split Y: Input L active: Balance A = R100, Balance B = L100 Input R active: Balance A = L100, Balance B = R100 assign these values to a footswitch or to a snapshot if you want to open up both inputs for some reason, then both need to be R100 On Mixer: Level A = -60 dB to constantly mute path A the rest as you see fit
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If both guitars will be using the same preset, you don't need to sacrifice a block at all. Pull the first block you're actually using – or even all of your blocks – to path B. Then use Split Y on the split block to switch one input to Right 100 and the other to Left 100, and vice versa. For this you might either have to "sacrifice" a footswitch, or you can switch the input balance via snapshots. Whatever suits you best. On the Mixer block, set the A Level to -60 dB to mute it completely. You won't need the separate path A, as it's where you're dumping the guitar input currently not in use. That's it, in fact. The issue here only is that the Split block cannot exist on its own, hence the need for path B at the beginning of the chain.
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On the Stomp though, you may run into DSP limits if you want to have two different amps and cabs in one preset. So either you pick amps that aren't that DSP demanding, like the Del Sol 300 for bass and the Small Tweed or Jazz Rivet for guitar. (Been there done that.) Or you go with a "universal" amp that sounds great for both. For me it's the new "Dripman" aka Fender Bassman which sounds just brilliant. And yes, I play both bass and guitar through the Stomp, albeit not both at the same time in any of my bands. But also acoustic guitars and bass guitars together with an "electrified plank" as a bass drum stompbox. The HX Stomp can handle it all. Even vocal mics if needed… :)
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Of course you can. You have two inputs. So you simply mute the input you don't need in the respective preset.
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Actually it isn't but no big deal. You simply may want to post a new thread the next time there's any issue. :)
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Are you sure it's the Stomp and not for example a dying battery in your active bass guitar? (provided you're using an active bass, of course)
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Oh, that symptom, on the other hand, has definitely increased for me as well, but already with the 3.70 update, and literally starting the same day when I updated the device last November.
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"Note sync" values like 1/4, 1/8 etc. depend on the Tap Tempo value for the respective preset or even snapshot, depending on your settings. Whereas values in ms or s are always absolute.
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I did already: you will have direct control over all devices, yet you can use them all at the same time. A literal "win-win situation" as they say. Hm… that might have been the case back in the day while I was doing mobile recordings with a PowerBook G4 and my two FireWire interfaces and their still crappy drivers. But I don't really remember. But in the past few years I've been doing lots of mobile recordings with Logic and with the same old two FW interfaces plus the HX Stomp as an aggregate device – having 14 input channels in total – and it just works, and that was on MacOS El Capitan using hacked drivers for those two old FW interfaces because they aren't even supported on El Capitan anymore… The only drawback here is that the old FW devices don't work with my new MacBook M2 anymore. So I bought a Roland Octa-Capture which is USB. Guess what: on my old El Capitan MacBooks, all four devices run as an aggregate device: M-Audio FW410, Alesis iO26, the Octa-Capture and the Stomp. That's a total of 18 XLR and 4 line/instrument inputs! It. Just. Works. ;) (That said, some apps are quite picky about CoreAudio devices in general. Yes, I'm looking at you, iZotope RX with your friggin' "selected audio device cannot be opened" error! Funnily enough, you can actually work around this stupid error by assigning an – wait for it… – aggregate device with all your possible I/O in there. Go figure. :)
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It does matter: Connect both directly, then create an Aggregate Device via Audio MIDI Setup app to use both interfaces simultaneously, while you'll also still have full control of both via their drivers, and you can also comfortably edit and back up your Stomp presets via the HX Edit app. You may also want to install the Helix Driver, otherwise the Stomp will default to 48 kHz sample rate only. (Unless you're recording for the film industry, generally you may want to record at 44.1 kHz in Logic.)