tigervomitt

No, no one wants to hear anyone tune up. I'm setting up the action on a new bass. I like a small amount of fret buzz in my tone. I wanted to hear its effect on my Helix'ed tone while I dial in the string height, without having to go over to the Helix 5 feet away on the shelf and turn the tuner on an off every few seconds while I'm sitting at the workbench. It's also been handy MANY times on stage to have a tuner running on a pedalboard, for those moments when you start thinking "am I out of tune on this string?". Even more with an old analog synth on stage. Sometimes stage sound isn't great and the objective measurement can help you know where you're at. Similarly, it's also useful when you're recording. Just leave the tuner running so that you can tune whenever you need to, without having to lollipop around with a tuner between takes while you're focusing on the performative job at hand. Consider it a pitch meter and you'll start to get it.

When I turn on the tuner I only get clean DI sound - or the sound is totally muted, depending on how it’s set up. Instead I’d like to have the normal tone that’s loaded up continue playing. How do I change it so that even with the tuner on it’ll still let me keep playing with whatever patch that’s loaded up? Sometimes it’s useful to have the tuner visible on the screen while we play normally. THANKS

Older post but, reading it through - Did you check the guitar's battery? Since you said it's active