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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.

Actually it isn't but no big deal. You simply may want to post a new thread the next time there's any issue. :)

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)

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.

"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.

Works fine for me, so it must be something specific with your device.

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. :)

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.)

The Stomp can be very picky about USB cables. From the dozens of cables that I have accumulated over the past 20+ years, only about two or three are reliably stable and long enough to be useful with the Stomp on the floor. This is not necessarily surprising though, as there are lots of poor quality USB cables on the market which would still work just OK with "lightweight" gear like scanners or printers. Recently I bought a couple of USB-C to USB-B cables, 4 m (!) long, which work fine. See here for more details:

Many things are possible. I've been already using the Stomp as a 4-channel mixer with two mics and two guitars. Which is admittedly tricky to set up but it works. :) … and then move the Return block to path B. Make sure to adjust the Split "miniblock" in front so that Main In goes only to path A. Then you have separate paths for each keyboard. You can then either mix them again at any point in the chain so that they both go to Main Out, or move the B output to Send.

That might have been a "Black Friday" sale. 3 years ago I made use of it as well, getting an additional 30% discount on the already discounted price with a hardware product.

A compressor at the end will massively reduce the signal to noise ratio, i.e. increase noise. For guitars, compressors are best placed at the very beginning of the chain, with the exception of effects that rely on dynamic input like autowah and may work best when placed first.

Strike that ^ As of v3.70, I switched to the new "US Dripman" aka Fender Bassman Silverface, and have no plans to look back anytime soon. Sounds great in headphones with a dual cab, mixing 4x10 Tweed with 2x15 US Dripman, i.e. both Fender Bassman based. Sounds great both with the fretless J-bass as well as with the fretted Ibanez SR1200, although I use a separate preset for each. Sounds great without the cabs, going straight into the power amp of my 15" Quantum 415 combo. Haven't had the opportunity yet to plug the Dripman straight into a "live" PA. (note to my booking agents: get me more gigs!)

Since you're already asking… Yes! Because I have bought the Stomp so that I don't need anything else in the first place. ;) Not even an amp. But that's just me…

Tha last millenium has called and wants its "good example" back! The last time I have actively used a floppy disk was in 1999 with a Macintosh LC475, before buying an iMac G3. Sadly, Apple is not exactly the "best example" either, anymore. There was a time when they had a good balance between excessive skeuomorphism of the early OS X and the dull flatness and ambiguousity of today's MacOS/iOS. UI design is an art discipline on its own. In my opinion, the HX Edit app UI isn't all that bad visually. It's just that it isn't very Mac-like which is often the case with cross-platform apps.

This forum software is capable of many things. But it requires an admin that would enable all the features. And perhaps promote a bunch of trustworthy longtime members to moderators.

By default, the installer creates a "Line6" folder in /Applications. (It's e.g. not smart enough to know that I want all such apps in my own /Applications/Hardware subfolder and it doesn't look there for an existing instance to overwrite. That's not always necessarily a bad thing though.) But the app itself can then live almost anywhere, as long as the user has admin privileges to move it. If not, then an alias is being made because by default the app is owned by the "root" user. But if the user holds the option key, a copy is being made, and thus the user may end up with multiple copies – and thus multiple versions. So to move an app owned by root, one needs to hold the command key and allow it by entering the admin password – or the finger print.

For the record, Native 3.70 still installs and launches on El Capitan, although officially unsupported. Tested with Logic 10.3.3

Since this thread is about unstable USB connections and has some useful info about USB cables in general, I thought I'd bump it with a new observation: Having upgraded my Mac collection with the new 15" MacBook Air, I also had to get quite a load of new USB-C cables, adapters, you name it. After testing a few, I decided to explore the boundaries by ordering a 4 m (!) long Delock USB 2.0 B-to-C, i.e. compatible with a whole bunch of USB devices starting with antiquities like an Epson Perfection 1240 scanner, M-Audio Oxygen8 (v1) keyboard, etc. etc. up to my new Roland Octa-Capture, and of course… drum roll, HX Stomp. It works! 4 m long! Amazing. I've been using it since a few weeks without any issues. In Switzerland, it's available for as low as CHF 13 ≈ EUR 15.

Aaand, fun fact: So HX Edit 3.70 actually launches on Mountain Lion, but it doesn't open any window. Obviously there are some required frameworks missing. At least my HX Stomp is still being recognized as a USB Audio device with the default 48 kHz sampling rate.

On the good news side: HX Edit and Native 3.70 still run on El Capitan. You may need to update HX Edit (and possibly also the firmware) manually, as it isn't aware of updates anymore. That's been the case with 3.60 already, as far as I recall.

Alright, just tested but this trick doesn't work with Central.

github.com/andrews05/ResForge You're in luck, it's still Catalina compatible! :D I also have this German book: zvab.com/servlet/SearchResults?kn=9783908489948 But for editing an Info.plist all you need is TextEdit.

Speaking of which, sometimes you can fool an app to launch on older OS simply by editing the "LSMinimumSystemVersion" attribute in *.app/Contents/Info.plist. As long as there aren't any system libraries and framework dependencies, they may still run normally. Been there done that, e.g. with several versions of Firefox a few years ago.

Having bought a new MBA 15" earlier this year, I'm on the "cutting edge" at this moment, hehe. But the new app is nothing essential yet. Likely it might be eventually convenient when certain next updates arrive, considering how annoyingly buried some of the actual dowloads on line6.com/software are. But as of now, I haven't seen anything that couldn't be accomplished via HX Edit, apart from seeing a large colorful thumbnail of my Stomp. I have joined the logicprohelp.com/forums recently. (I'm a Logic user since 2001.) They are full of stories like this, e.g. retired musicians still happily working with their antique Mac Pros running OS 10.7 and Logic 8 or 9. And on the other hand folks hastily upgrading to Sonoma 14.0.x (aka the real public beta) amidst a recording/mixing project and wondering why all of the sudden they cannot meet their deadlines that were "yesterday".