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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.

It does thanks, I was hoping that I could get the loop to play once only without overdub being engaged. I'm trying to sync the looper to a sequencer by using CC commands.

When I press 'play' after after recording the 1st layer it works perfectly, so I'm assuming there is a 'stop recording then play back' command implicit in this footswitch. When I press 'play once' instead, the 'stop recording' command appears to be missing. I was hoping that the loop would play once without overdub being engaged.

That's right. Page 13 of the manual says to press play/stop to end recording and immediately start play back, in this situation overdub is out, nothing I play is layered. If I press play once to end the recording overdub is in, what I play is layered despite it saying 'overdub out' on the Helix Control.

I'm using the 6 switch looper, I hit record and strum in some chords, then I hit play and the loop repeats endlessly and I can swap between overdub out/in with the record button and it all makes sense. However, if I hit record followed by 'play once' anything I play after pressing 'play once' is overdubbed despite 'overdub out' being displayed. Is this expected behaviour?

Hi there. It seems that I mistook MMC for MTC, didn't realise that until this. I'm sure I saw sysex in midi monitor as I sent a start command: http://www.showcuesystems.com/scs10help/topics/scs-options-mid-mmc.htm Maybe there is some sort of MMC to MTC convertor box...

Hi All. I have a Genoqs Octopus HW sequencer which has been slaved off Cubase, Live and a TR8s among other things, I see it sending out start and stop messages in master mode in midi monitor so I assumed that I could use Helix 2.92 foot control buttons to send out Start/ Stop commands and control it but all I see are sysex commands. I tried sending Helix to Live, making sure the Helix was a sync source in the prefs but still no joy, what have I misunderstood here? Thanks.

Thanks for that, I swear that is the first thing I tried but it seemed like the ping and the pong went down both branches, I just assumed I had done something stupid. Oh well...

Hi All. Just can't figure this out. I have a ping pong delay and I want to apply different effects to the left and right repeats, say chorus to the ping and reverb to the pong, can someone point out just how easy it is and I'll get back to it. Thanks.

Hi All. I've got the Helix rack and control pedal and I see in the manual that it will switch amp channels, I also have a Bastl Midilooper: https://bastl-instruments.com/instruments/midilooper The manual contains this paragraph: 'TIP: YOU CAN CONNECT ANY SUSTAIN TYPE PEDAL TO CONTROL THE RECORD BUTTON, CLEAR BUTTON OR THE VOICE SELECTION. YOU MIGHT NEED TO USE AN ADAPTER TO MAKE IT 3.5MM ( ⅛”) INSTEAD OF THE MORE STANDARD 6.3MM (¼”).THE INPUTS RESPOND TO A CONTACT BETWEEN THE TIP AND THE SLEEVE. YOU CAN ALSO BUILD YOUR OWN PEDAL BY PUTTING ANY BUTTON CONTACT BETWEEN THE TIP AND THE SLEEVE OF THE JACK CONNECTOR. IT ONLY DETECTS TIP-SLEEVE CONTACT.' So I was hoping to connect the midilooper to the ext amp socket on the back of the Helix and then assign a foot switch on the pedal to trigger the midi looper, is this realistic? I realise it's out of the scope of this forum but I am not getting the midi looper to do anything, it works from the front panel but I have connected various mini jack leads, dual mono, stereo etc to this socket, plugged them into foot switches, changed polarities, shorted them, all to no avail. When it comes to talk of rings, tips, sleeves, soldering etc, I haven't got a clue. Could one of you electrical braniacs suggest a course of action? Thanks.

Hi there. Thanks for the reply. I'm on Mountain Lion and I'll be on it for a while longer, as for the question 'why?' I'd be happy to explain at risk of boring you to death so this forum is hardly the place for such an off topic discussion. So, the question remains, does anyone have experience of running the latest firmware/editor on Mountain Lion. A supplemental question might be regarding the latest that will run on Mountain Lion. Thanks.

Hi there. Is there anyone running the latest 2.82 firmware on Mountain Lion (10.8.3)? Thanks.