Marcipicus3

I currently own a Variax standard and it is pretty good but I have a couple of feature requests for the next generation if Line6 intends on making one and I hope that they do. These are my feature requests for the next generation of Variax... 1. Whammy Bar a)Whammy bars without a locking nut and bridge always go out of tune when using the tremolo so there is really no reason to produce them with the floating bridge in my opinion. Floyd rose or other locking tremolo systems should be used or no floating bridge at all. b)The variax would be the only product on the market with a locking tremolo that can change tunings in a reasonable time frame 2. Bass Guitar Synth Support Since the variax already has the capability to pitch shift there should be support for Bass guitar emulation to allow the musician to layer bass parts over a loop without changing instruments. May need an extra tuning knob. 3. Mandolin Synth Support Variax has the ability to pitch shift and double strings so mandolin synths should be easily accomplished. Would allow the musician to layer mandolin parts over a loop. May need an extra tuning knob also. 4. Nashville Tuning Builtin to Tuning Knob Guitar tuning technique where the bottom four strings are replaced with lighter gauge strings and tuned up an octave higher than standard tuning. used for layering parts in recording studio 5. Built-in Wireless Support Provide support for variax synth changes programmed into Helix patch settings and allow for wireless transmission of control messages to change the patch of the variax. Wireless signal transmission in the manner of the G10 should also be supported and built-in. Support would need to be built into the helix also. Yamaha THR30ii already has support for wireless transmission using the G10 built-in Cheers

I was looking at the Helix Stadium XL and it looks pretty awesome. My one criticism of it though is that the looper is placed inside of a patch and the only way to loop using two different patches is to place the looper pedal at the same location in each patch. I think that it would make more sense to place the looper outside of the patch completely so that you could lay a rhythm track on one patch with a clean amp and delay then switch to a completely different amp and effects chain. The looper could be placed after the patch at the end of the signal chain and available at all times. I suppose there would still be a role for placing a looper within patches also so that it could be placed anywhere within the signal chain. Placing the looper at the end of the chain would be the most common and most needed use case though. I know that someone could purchase a Boss RC-500 Loopstation and place it after the helix but if the Helix is already capable of providing looper support then why couldn't it be implemented in the manner that I have suggested?