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Hi, Rich, You can find all the relevant info about recording, and re-amping using your HX Stomp, in the Owner’s Manual on pages 61 - 64, in the section marked USB Audio. https://line6.com/data/6/0a00051afdda673cccdb61c9c/application/pdf/HX Stomp 3.80 Owner's Manual - English .pdf Anyhow, as you have recently discovered, Helix Native will be a very good investment. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, I don't use Nuendo - I have Logic on my Mac, but the automation can be written into the track, or you can use MIDI to do the same. From what little I do know about Nuendo is, there are 3 different types of automation available - Touch, Latch and Cross Over. It may be worth digging a little deeper into how these various options work. Check this link: https://ask.video/article/audio-software/a-complete-guide-to-nuendo-and-cubases-automation-panel Hope this helps/makes sense.

When all else fails! This has been this Helix user forum “get out of jail free” card for quite some time now. Just remember to use the latest version numbers whenever a number is listed in the very detailed instructions. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, Not sure why you are picking up “hum”, but the first line of defence here would be the Ground Lift Switch, on the rear panel of your LT. It is there as a “hum buster” for dealing with this sort of thing. There can be many reasons for introducing ground loop hum in your signal. I see that you mention that you have a Return block in your presets, but didn’t say where this is positioned in the signal path, or how complex your presets are? Have you tried creating a parallel split B on Path1 (or Path2) where the actual input to it is designated as RETURN 1 (or 1&2) and set to Line level. Using the Returns as a dedicated input, you have an optional noise gate that might help cut out any excessive noise, and the audio from you BOSS recorder could then pass through to the outputs without going through any additional processing blocks. I also note that the output from the Boss 80 is on a stereo mini phone connector. Check whatever 1/8” to 1/4” jack converter is the right one for the job. You could use a splitter to connect the Boss stereo out to both 1 and 2 Return input sockets to see if that improves the audio signal. All 4 paths available in your Helix LT are stereo. It’s always a good idea to have a read through the Helix LT 3.80 Owner’s Manual for options on routing your signal. https://line6.com/data/6/0a00051afd86673ccb96424d9/application/pdf/Helix LT 3.80 Owner's Manual - English .pdf Hope this helps/makes sense.

Yep, Mode and Tap Tempo cannot be reassigned in the manner you want. Some stuff just shouldn’t be messed with. You maybe should have read this first:- Hope this helps/makes sense.

Did you try this by also adding a Studio Tube Pre in the signal path?

Hi, It certainly shouldn’t be regarded as “strange that the firmware update didn't take care of this automatically”. That is a “fail safe” precaution! Can you imagine the outcry, and threats of legal action, that could ensue if a device rebooted and wiped all your hard work. Nope! You really have to expect a little human interaction along with taking some responsibility for looking after your perfectly sculpted tones. The information about factory resets, and not accidentally overwriting any of your own presets, is fully detailed in the Release Notes for all the Firmware updates, which you are encouraged to read by using the link on the firmware download page. https://line6.com/support/page/kb/effects-controllers/helix/helixhx-380-release-notes-r1079/ See points 4 & 5 in the Updating Helix/HX Hardware section. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, Ah, ha… now it begins to make sense. As I mentioned in my previous post, when I record into Logic, I capture the stereo processed audio with all the effects from my Helix over USB 1&2. At the same time, I also record the totally dry mono signal onto another track over USB 7. This means that if you’re unhappy with the amount of overdrive, or distortion, or whatever else in your processed signal, you can simply insert an instance of HX Native into the Direct Injected dry channel and re-amp as many times as you wish. You can take that same performance and play it back though lots of different presets making modifications to the Amp, Cab, Mic choice, etc until you achieve your tonal nirvana. I sometimes duplicate the dry signal and reprocess the audio through several instances of HX Native simultaneously. HX Native and the firmware in your Helix (providing they are on the same revision number) will sound identical, and all your presets can be exchanged back and forth between Native and the Floor box seamlessly. Using Native for re-amp duties means it can all remain inside you Mac, and you can continue to monitor it all from the Helix without having to reconfigure anything. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, I use my Helix Floor, Helix Native and Logic Pro on an almost daily basis and have to say that I have not experienced any audio distortion, other than that produced by the specific blocks in Helix. Also my Kali Audio IN-8 2nd wave monitors are connected to the XLR sockets of the Helix to provide zero latency. I have been working with this system since buying my Helix in 2015 and adding Native when it was later released. I usually record the processed audio from the Helix into a stereo channel on USB 1&2, and also a DI dry signal on another channel set to USB 7. The DI can then be used to re-amp the part after the fact (eg: if the processed audio has too much reverb it can be corrected). Recording your signal at the correct level will help to avoid any distorted audio, as noted by @silverhead in the post above, you may need to check your gain staging. Overdriving inputs on digital is a bad thing and best avoided. A little more info about your set up may help. Recently, there were several discussions on YouTube about how some people have been using audio plug-ins incorrectly. See linked video below. This is generally the main reason that there may be a difference between the software and hardware audio output. Suffice to say that Helix Native software is the same as the firmware in the hardware unit, and the audio reproduction should be identical. The only things missing from Native are the physical hardware components, such as SEND/RETURN and the Looper. There should be no change whatsoever in the replayed tone. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, I saw that you had posted on IdeaScale, but I seem to recall that someone else requested a similar thing way back. That never happened, so I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for this, especially as the Helix is rapidly approaching it’s tenth birthday. Also - No, the Helix Floor doesn’t handle this differently, it doesn’t even have the Performance View like the LT, it uses Scribble Strips. Anyhow, regarding the Snapshot situation, have you investigated using the Command Centre which can greatly expand your options for working. Not so much with any greater on screen info, but the ability to stack snapshots on one switch and/or essentially create presets within presets. You might be able to find another way to navigate through your one man band gigs. Have a look at this video from Steve Sterlacci - he has a few covering this subject. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, There are no Line staff here and only very occasionally do they visit these forums - See the “sticky comment” in the black banner stripe at the top of this page entitled “Welcome to the Line 6 forums” This link is where you need to go to have any hope of it been seen by anyone from Line 6: https://line6.ideascale.com/c/line6 Before posting any new ideas, please do a search to see if it's already been listed. Multiple requests for the same thing will thin out the votes. Also, post your ideas one at a time. Many users don’t vote for combined suggestions. You should use this thread to let other users know what your suggestions are, with links to IdeaScale, so they can vote on it if they wish. https://line6.com/support/topic/14497-helix-ideascale-community-submissions/ Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, Yup! - That’s the way it works - you can see the named Snapshots in Snapshot mode, and the Stomp names in Stomp mode. Bit of a clue in the mode name. You do have the option to have 4 Stomps displayed on the top row with 4 Snaps on the row below, or vice versa - 4 Snaps above 4 Stomps below. See Helix LT 3.80 Owner’s Manual > Page 54 > Arranging Preset, Snapshot, and Stomp Switches. https://line6.com/data/6/0a00051afd86673ccb96424d9/application/pdf/Helix LT 3.80 Owner's Manual - English .pdf Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, Downloaded my v.1.5 copy this afternoon, after seeing the comment from @carlosvladi in the post above - no issues, simply clicked on the link in the original conformation email, as all previous updates. Thank you for all your work.

Hi, I have only just seen this thread, and I have to agree that importing the backing track into Logic is the easiest solution. I mention this as a long time Logic user (back to the days of Emagic), and have been using my Helix Floor as my main audio interface to get the audio in and out of Logic on my Mac almost daily since late 2015. Note: I also have another couple of audio interfaces available that can also be incorporated into an aggregate audio device to add even more USB ins and outs in addition to the 8 built into my Helix should they be required. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi again, Can I suggest that you go and watch this video and then see if you have a better understanding of how to get to what you’re trying to achieve. You should be able to figure a way to make your gear get a similar result simply by where you position the split and the amp/cab block. This guy does it all with HX Stomp running stereo FX. Note:- there are several other videos on YouTube featuring similar ways of approaching this - for example this guy using mono effects. Oh, and this guy uses this set up on HX Stomp for his P&W rig. Go on - experiment - it may be way better that you expected. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, Have tried loading it into HX Edit? The reason I ask is, because I just dropped into a preset viewer and it occupies path 1 A and B with 7 blocks, so it should be feasible. Viewer here: https://hxview.netlify.app Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, again. I woke up about 3am and nearly screamed out loud - WHY? Every time you have an Amp/Cab block last in the signal path, then the resulting output will be (dual) mono, that’s just the way it works. How the hell are you monitoring this stuff as it appears all you have is a single guitar amp (mono)

Hi, This is my point entirely - he has not mentioned what amp he is using, and/or if it has a fx loop (which may or may not help here), because the way I read this is the OP has never heard his gear in stereo. It would appear that all those expensive, stereo fx are slammed into the front of whatever mono amp he happens to be using. Using the HX Stomp he could put his fancy drive boxes in front of it, and then patch the Timeline and Big Sky in the Stomp’s FX Loop after any Amp/Cab block of choice, then go to stereo out. Although, other than headphones, which he also didn’t mention, it seems there is no apparent method of monitoring, or hearing, this “holy grail” of stereo that he wants to achieve, simply to go to FOH. I really don’t understand what the point of this would be, especially without knowing how it sounds in stereo. It appears to me to be an exercise in futility, because every time an amp/cab block is added to the end of the signal chain it defeats the object. Right at the start the OP told us - “I want to...”, BUT never told us WHY? We are chasing our own tails on this one, I think. Right, now I’m back to clearing snow!

OK! Here we go again. Forget the SEND, and instead of connecting path B back to Path A drag it down to create another output that goes out on the SEND sockets. Of course you don’t want 2 amp/cab blocks in this preset. See the HX Stomp 3.8 Owner’s Manual > Page 18 > Setting Path B’s Output for details of this. https://line6.com/data/6/0a00051afdda673cccdb61c9c/application/pdf/HX Stomp 3.80 Owner's Manual - English .pdf Hope this helps/makes sense.

Correct! The HX Stomp Path A and Path B are stereo. You can feed any stereo effect you like into the front L/R inputs of the HX Stomp and it will travel along Path A and will appear at the L/R out of the Stomp in the identical state, UNLESS you have that stereo input signal pass through a block that is set to mono, eg: an amp block. After that everything is mono UNLESS the signal then passes through a stereo block, eg: a ping pong delay (which can only be stereo). Although, any other effect before the amp will exit the amp in mono and signal will bounce from left to right after the stereo delay block. Ha, ha, ha - yeah double the expense for something that still cannot work how you think it should. It appears that the only reason you are using the HX Stomp is as an amp sim. If that’s the case, this will never work because amps are mono. Throughout this discourse, you never mentioned what hardware amp you are using? Feeding all your external pedals into your amp must have always been in mono, so now I wonder about this interest in stereo. Have you tried this: - Guitar > HX Stomp IN > Minotaur > Tone Sovereign > US Princess+Cab > Ping Pong Delay > Dynamic Hall Reverb > HX Stomp Out L/R > Stereo Powered Monitors HX Stomp Phones Out. Result - glorious stereo from a HX Stomp.

Hi, Well as an amp model is a mono block that is normal, but you didn’t indicate any other blocks that might be stereo and post amp block. For instance, you listed your signal chain is TUNER - TUMNUS - KING OF TONE - TIMELINE- BIGSKY - HX STOMP. Are you using stereo from the Strymon units to feed the HX Stomp? If you are, then they will already be collapsed to mono as soon as the hit the amp block? It sort of defeats the object. Generally most users would have time based effects after the amp section, in order to take advantage of the stereo effects. I can understand wanting to use “the real thing” with your pedals, but the HX Stomp has a tuner onboard, along with a stack of overdrive pedals, including a KOT model, and a whole bunch of stereo delays and reverbs. If you are only using the Stomp for the amp model then you will always end up with a mono output. From what I can derive from your current information is that you say - “Run a stereo signal out of my HX Stomp with an amp model to the FOH, and a mono signal to my amp on stage without modeling”. You cannot be running a “stereo” signal out of your Stomp, because as you’re already aware, any stereo signal hitting the front of the amp block is automatically collapsed to mono, therefore your output is dual mono. Also, “Currently I have the SEND L/R going to the FOH but its a mono signal, because as soon as I put a amp model…” Again, as you know, this is due to tapping the signal chain after the amp. It’s physics, you cannot change that. You mention paths A and B it would help by posting a copy of the HX Stomp preset you are using for folks to check out. It may make more sense to be able to see the settings. Sadly, it won’t be me, as I cannot get access to the studio right now - currently under 10 inches of fresh snow. Grrrr! EDIT: Hmm… I have just re-read the OP. Judging by the info supplied you will never get a stereo result. Anything hitting an amp/cab block will be flattened to mono, plus anything going to your stage amp will become mono once it hits the jack socket in, unless of course you have a stereo amp, which I seriously doubt.

Hi, I found this in less than 2 minutes - there is even a preset that can play around with and modify to your own ends. Basically, you need a SEND block, which will be the feed to your amp, before the amp block then - that goes to the final output to the FOH. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Ye gods - this is like pulling teeth. You wanted CONFIRMATION of the information, which I had previously supplied to you, and that was a direct cut and paste from the Line 6 Knowledge base - it states:- From the HX EFFECTS FAQ page: Does HX Effects have an audio interface? No. It's designed for your pedalboard. It will send and receive MIDI data over USB, however. So, the CONFIRMATION from an official source was not a GOOD thing? This is borderline insanity. It’s starting to travel down the same sort of wormhole you started back in October when you said you had bought a new HX Effects and failed to understand how stereo inputs work. That was fun - not! I fail to see how my response, and a similar one from @codamedia, could be confusing. Both of us explained that in order record any audio from your HXFX into a DAW, you need to use a dedicated stereo audio interface to capture any sound created in your HXFX, up to and including the onboard synth pads. In fact I did actually mention the 3 note and 4 OSC generators. Is that too confusing? I also pointed out that, as the HXFX is NOT an audio interface, in order to use it with a DAW it has to be treated like any other outboard multi-fx unit. Please, research how to connect external audio effect processors to you particular DAW. Ah, yes - I’m one of those people who use a Helix as an audio interface, and have used it daily like that since 2015. I must be afflicted with actually knowing what I’m doing with this stuff. I have come to the conclusion this an exercise in total futility.

Hi, again. Yesterday, you contacted me by a PM when I thought that I had clarified the fact that the HX Effects doesn’t work as an audio interface and eventually pointed you to this answer:- From the HX EFFECTS FAQ page: Does HX Effects have an audio interface? No. It's designed for your pedalboard. It will send and receive MIDI data over USB, however. So, to be quite totally clear- you are wrong to think that your HXFX will work as an audio interface. That’s a fact! Asking the same question over and over will not provide a different result! As for using the HXFX in conjunction with a DAW, you should treat it exactly as you would any other outboard multi-fx processor. If you are using a hardware synth, connect it to your Effects and take the L/R outputs from there to the inputs of a dedicated audio interface. This would be the same technique if you wanted to record some of the self generated (eg 3 note or 4 OSC generator) synth noises directly from your HXFX into your DAW. If you want to play a “soft synth” through your HXFX, then you will need to route the dry audio from the synth out of your Interface, into the FX then back into a stereo channel in your DAW, in a similar fashion to using an FX Loop on an amp. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Hi, To be able to see and use the new models in the latest firmware via HX Edit then your version number of HX Edit should match the version number of the Firmware that you have installed. Having said that, the current Firmware is 3.80 and due to some issues on Apple Silicon computers the Editor software has been patched and is now V3.82. Download and install the latest HX Edit and you should be able to use the new amps. There is a Sticky Thread which explains this on the first page of this forum. Also a Factory Reset is required after a firmware update. Hope this helps/makes sense.