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Hi. It seems that my Helix Control is not up to the rigours of life on the carpeted floor of my home studio and has gradually decayed after 3 or 4 years of very easy use, the foot switches are unreliable and the power flickers on and off depending on the position of the cable. I'm not going to buy a secondhand one that might just end up the same way in a year or two and new ones are over £400, for this sort of money it seems like there are a lot of of options and since all of the functions I use respond to midi commands, should I consider something else? The Voodoo Labs thing looks good and there is even this which looks very cool as well as doing way more than the Control. Any opinions or experience will be welcome. (I'll only be using it in the home studio). Thanks.

Hi. I've got JTV 89f Variax guitar plugged into a Helix Rack and sometimes I use Garageband to record stuff. The Helix is not selected as the audio interface. Whatever channel is selected in Garageband will have its volume controlled by the volume knob on the guitar. I have sent the MIDI output of the Helix to a MidiHub so I can monitor any output and as far as I can see there is nothing coming out, can anyone suggest a way to stop this annoying behaviour? Thanks.

Hi. Ive got the Control footswitch plugged into Helix Rack and the socket labelled 'Host' on the back of the Control seems to have gone dodgy, wiggling the plug power cycles the Control pedal. To get it fixed is going to cost at least fifty pounds per hour at the place I use, plus parts. I've no idea how to fix it myself and I see secondhand ones coming up on Ebay and the like for 150 to 200 quid. Is it sensible to just junk the one I have and grab another or is there another option? Thanks.

I had a Line 6 Echo Pro back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and was sh1t at sync too. Hard to believe that they still haven't got it together.

Try setting your delay time to quarter notes, swap projects and see if it stays in sync, not just the blue light flashing, actually see if as you play they stay in time.

It is in the manual and claims to be able to do it but I've sent it clock endlessly and it never works reliably. I'm on 3.50. The only reliable way I've found is to set the tempo in globals and forget about midi sync. If you get it to track different tempos as you switch projects, do let me know how you did it.

Hey there. Thanks for the reply. I can send midi clock to the Helix if I want, you may not have seen my other post, but I can't get that to work reliably either, the blue ring flashes very obviously out of time while the rest of my gear hooks up faultlessly for hours. If I set the tempo in the global prefs it works, if I tap the tempo on the footswitch, it works but the CC64 function from the manual seems faulty. One of the reasons I bought the Helix was tempo synced delays and setting it with note values, I was just kinda hoping it would sit there and just do it, whatever I was up to...

3.5 now installed and the behaviour still manifests.

Hi. On page 75 of the Helix manual it says that CC64 can emulate the tap tempo button press (value 64-127). I set my sequencer to send CC64=100 every quarter note but apart from the very first time I tried it, when it worked perfectly, I get very odd results. I made some videos to demonstrate the problem, the sequencer is running at 90bpm. https://photos.app.goo.gl/StdDK9krqBTyr1po9 If someone can point out where I've gone wrong, that would be great.

When pressing stop on the Octo it sends out CC123 0 on all channels. 25% of the time the Helix delays sync up.

Thanks. I'm using a Genoqs Octopus which does send a start/stop message. Just now I started the Octo 3 times to test and the Helix delays were synced only once, without me changing anything.

Unfortunately no, I have no Mac or PC at the moment, just Linux. That'll change soon though.

Ulp!!...no one?

So...I've just made a coffee and re plugged the Helix back into the MRCC and the delays now sync up. I spent about 2 hours yesterday trying to figure this out, has anyone else had this happen?

FW 3.15. I've set up an amp with simple delay in mono. I'm sending midi clock from a sequencer to the Helix Rack and a Roland TR8s. In global prefs it's set to receive midi clock from the right inputs. When I start the sequencer the TR8s kicks off perfectly in time as does all my other gear receiving clock, the Helix however is acting weird. The footswitch flashes blue and says 'Ext' while the sequencer is playing but reverts to the global tempo setting when I stop. The flashing blue ring is obviously well out of time, it's as if the Helix has received a start message but no tempo info (I'm guessing that bit), I set the simple delay to 1/1 and I expect to hear what I play repeated once per bar but it's simply out of time. It used to work perfectly and I'm almost certain it worked just fine after 3.15. I have bypassed the MRCC patchbay and connected the sequencer directly to the Helix but the behaviour still manifests. Obviously I have done something really dumb here so I was hoping some ultra geek can point to some button that needs to be pressed or whatever. Thanks.