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Being new to Line 6 – but with a 30+ years experience in working on computers as a graphic designer, sound engineer etc. – the first time I came to https://line6.com/software ff. I thought "my goodness, what's this?!" Line 6 desperately needs a qualified web designer. Not just a website programmer. (Vive la différence. ;)

Nope. Everything runs as smooth as only possible on El Capitan. No problems whatsoever, even the broken account login was apparently fixed. Same for Helix Native 3: runs fine in Logic. (10.3.3, the latest version for El Capitan) The only incompatible part is the latest Helix Driver. If you want to use sample rates other than 48 kHz, you must install v1.0.7 for El Capitan. ^ Emphasis mine. "Mac OS X" was the official MacOS description before Sierra. HX Edit 3 might be thus also compatible with Yosemite, possible even Mavericks. I just don't have any partitions with those OSs to try out.

All my guitar presets go from 01A forward. All my bass presets go from 42C backward. I have backed up the factory presets after inspecting most of them. Not much of use for me. I'm keeping only about 15 of them for further "investigation" somewhere in the middle of the list. I don't switch presets within a song, utilizing snapshots and footswitches for variations instead. I have an expression pedal on FS5 and a footswitch on FS4 that switches the pedal between EXP1 and EXP2. And a Disaster Area DMC.micro MIDI footswitch with an external tap tempo footswitch attached to it. That's a total of 7 footswitches and 1 pedal. Desperately trying to avoid tap dancing though… Still need to work on specific snapshots for specific songs, as in "1) intro, 2) verse, 3) bridge" and the like. For guitar amplification, I'm currently using some small old Yamaha PA power speakers "Made in Italy" (don't remember the model number off the top of my head) that I bought very cheap from my former guitarist earlier this year. They sound pretty linear to me, so they are OK for amp modeling. For bass guitar, usually I'd plug the Stomp into the power amp of whatever bass amp is in the respective rehearsal room, using the Stomp's Amp block without Cab. Live I go straight into the PA from the Stomp via a self-soldered TRS-to-XLR adapter, using my bass combo as a stage monitor via Stomp's FX send before the Amb+Cab block. But well, given the Corona circumstances, so far there was only one live gig this year since I bought the Stomp. Bummer… So in general I can plug the Stomp's line-out into whatever there is to plug it in: mixing console, DI box, power amp, active speaker, whatever. Global EQ is my friend. It just works. :)

An older list is also available here: Based on the old list, last week I did some tests to figure out how many and which blocks a Stomp can bear with the Poly Sustain: 7 For my preset, I'm using, in this order: Tron Up, Gain, US Small Tweed A+C, Simple EQ, Poly Sustain (on parallel), Ganymede All mono. Tron Up is a must-have in most of my guitar presets, so that one was set from the start. (Yep, I play some funk guitar.) US Small Tweed is among the least DSP hungry amps. Cabs are apparently all the same DSP-wise. Gain doesn't eat up almost anything, so I'm using it as a booster to overdrive the amp. Simple EQ is also very DSP friendly, it helps to model the amp more precisely. Ganymed mono is the least DSP-hungry reverb. Additionally, I'm also using snapshots, a DMC.micro and an expression pedal switchable to EXP1/2 to control various aspects of several blocks. Summed up, you can still do a lot with a Poly block if you use only "small footprint" effects.

It would be nice if you could post how you did it. In case anyone else runs into the same issue. thanks

I was trying to set it up just last week. It doesn't work. That's exactly what I tried in the end, and it works. Actually I wanted to post my experiment here this week, but now you beat me to it… Yep. It took me some time to figure out why it didn't work at first, but you're spot on. Exactly. Nonetheless, in the end I have set it all up differently though: I'm already using the MIDI In port for Disaster Area DMC.micro. And I'm also using the EXP input for different purposes already. But the DMC.micro has a multi-purpose jack I/O for yet another external tap tempo footswitch! Having got spare "antique" footswitches à go go in my studio, that's what I ended up with. Still, internal MIDI woud be a welcome addition since for certain live applications I'd like to keep my setup as simple as possible, using just the Stomp without any external add-ons.

https://line6.com/support/manuals/podstudioux1?selected_language=de

What happens if you edit the preset on the Stomp, without connecting it to the computer?

I haven't done much experiments on the guitar yet, but since I also play bass guitar, I've been working on a few presets to simulate a bass synth sound, including Whammy to go octave down, etc. So far I've kept it just monophonic though. To get a stable sound without too many glitches, what definitely helps is – in about this order – noise gate on the input block, 3-band parametric EQ, compressor, and yet another noise gate. Also, on my HX Stomp, I'm generally getting better results with the "legacy" pitch effects, likely due to limited DSP power.

Go to footswitch mode (page) 2 where it says "Preset ▼", "Preset ▲" and "Tap/Tuner". Press and hold FS1 and FS2 until it changes from "Preset" to "Snapshot". Voilà.

… speaking of which, there's a "bug" in the manual: Should read: "eight blocks"

On the Stomp, it's the "Edit View": https://line6.com/data/6/0a020a4112bbf5fb6a519e8b18/application/pdf/HX Stomp 3.0 Owner's Manual - Rev C - English .pdf > page 13

Interestingly, since there was the forum downtime a couple of days ago, the login on my laptop remains solid, and I haven't been logged out ever since. (MacOS El Capitan, Firefox 78.5esr with a plethora of mean and nasty add-ons to block every possible ad, tracker and unwanted cookie that there is, and connecting via VPN that blocks even more of that evil stuff.) On the other hand, I'm still being logged out every few "unread posts" on the iPhone, iOS 14.2, Firefox browser. My guess is that it has something to do with the forum software setup here. The same forum software is also used for example on https://forum.affinity.serif.com (Affinity graphic design software) where I don't experience any of the logout issues like here.

I find it annoying as well, but according to Line 6 support, this is supposed to be a "feature", not a bug.*) The touch sensitivity preference is apparently only meant for the Edit mode. So making this preference setting truly global should be likely filed as a feature request. *) One of the footswitches on my new HX Stomp was "touch-dead". Eventually I had it fixed on warranty.

If you put an EQ right before the amp block, you can use it to drive or "undrive" the amp by boosting or attenuating specific frequency bands. If you put it after the amp, you can round up the overall sound in a similar way a cab or an IR block does. You can e.g. put an EQ and a delay block on a parallel path, thus affecting just the wet sound of the delay, leaving the dry path as is; useful particularly for delays that don't have a built in EQ. On the other hand, if you put an EQ as your first block in the chain, you are shaping the dry sound of your instrument first, before it's being processed any further. That's e.g. where you would usually put the Acoustic Sim block – which is at its core also an EQ heavily attenuating mids and boosting highs and lows.

Stomp manual, page 60: For what it's worth, I'm using Disaster Area DMC.micro with my Stomp: CC# 69, values 8 & 9. That means – since the DMC.micro has just two footswitches and is thus extremely compact, which is why I bought it – I can toggle snapshots up and down, i.e. with just two switches I have a one-click access to all three snapshots.

For toggling several blocks at once you may likely want to use the built in switches in the Stomp instead, and then use the MIDI controller for anything else.

HX Stomp Owner's Manual, page 59:

I vaguely recall reading similar reports this week: https://line6.com/support/search/?q="rebuilding Preset"&type=forums_topic&nodes=86&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy

https://line6.com/support/manuals/#effects > Helix > select any Helix device > manuals download page for each respective device, each including HX Edit Pilot's Guide Direct link: https://line6.com/data/6/0a020a40dad35fb6b5906116f/application/pdf/HX Edit Pilot's Guide v3.00 - Rev P - English .pdf

I want my $20. :D Frankly though, it was primarily because I noticed that the HX Edit release notes don't list Mac OS El Capitan in the "Compatible OS" section anymore. So I wanted to make sure that it still works before I would have rebooted using the Mojave partition. For the record: HX Edit 3.0 runs fine on El Capitan. And even more: I can now log in again to my Line 6 account!

^ This. Apparently there's still a copy of HX Edit 2.92.dmg either in your ~/Downloads folder, or in a Firefox cache. Get https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile and search the complete hard drive for "HX Edit" incl. invisible items.

I don't see the point. If you need these pseudo-analog effects to enhance your recordings, add them in your DAW as plugins when mixing. There's a plethora of options available, from absolutely free up to insanely overpriced.

Before I bought the Stomp in July, I was still using a Boss SE-50 that I bought used back in 1992. It was even good enough for rehearsals, plugging it directly into the PA, instead of having to bring the Fender Blues Deluxe with me every time. So that one was in use for 28 years. Heck, my Blues Deluxe is now also 26 years old. In 28 years, I'll be 81. The Stomp may still be working by then. Possibly even the SE-50. Not so sure about myself though, haha… I'll keep the Fender amp for the time being. I also play bass, so I have a small and a mid-size bass combo as well. I'm not much into pedals though. Recently I've been using my decades old Boss CS-3 and TW-1 for guitar, also OC-2 and TW-1 for bass. If any. But in fact, all I've used since July was just the Stomp, be it at home, in rehearsal rooms with bands, and on one occassion (uh, there weren't many this year) also live. Straight to the desk or into any random power amp or amplified speaker that there is. It just works…

It will even work with a v3.0 Stomp: 5 blocks for the bass, 3 blocks still free for synth effects. Of course, you may want to be choosing less DSP intensive amps and effects though. I've been already using the Stomp as a 2-channel "mixer" before the v3 update with just 6 blocks (bass guitar & stompbox foot drum), works great: You can actually even run both of them in stereo: Use the FX loop return as your Aux input via the stereo Return L/R block on a parallel path which you route to the Send L/R output.