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Way cool - but, are they "Happy Together"?

Excellent! That reminds me of the first time I heard of Gordon being referred to as "Mr Sting" by these surreal guys: Don't think this could ever be replicated, no matter what you were using.

Perfect! See what can be achieved with just a little thought. Outstanding! The Police could be a while, they're busy busting Willie The Pimp, but that maybe just the blimp Frank, it's the blimp! ;)

Ignore him! It's done! So, about this wind energy thing, is that caused by the cows coming home. Not sure about the how the shoelaces tech is going to have an effect on those who might wear tennis shoes or an occasional python boot, they may require zircon encrusted tweezers!

Yay! Looks like my Frank Zappa reference managed to hi-jack this thread from the troll "itsslash", "the guitarist" or whatever his nom de guerre happens to be today. Obviously my comment about the "Shut up and Play Yer Guitar" trilogy was a small pointer to the first track of side two, entitled "Treacherous Cretins" - which is what we appear to have here. His latest comment, "And yet another day of all talk" seems to indicate that he is almost at breaking point because no one is bothering with his supposed thowing down of the gauntlet. Won't be long before he moves on to the forums of the Kemper crew. Wait till he finds out about "Headrush" - ye gods! Don't eat the yellow snow!

Yup! That would be cool - we shall see!

Thanks Tal, “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your sh!t, then you deserve it.†― Frank Zappa DaveDaveDave, Do you want to get some steak sauce to go with that "piece of cake" for the troll?

Seems that Line6 has just updated the Echo Farm plugin for ProTools. Maybe they have something in the pipeline for Helix users?

Maybe this Bozo should go and camp out in Andy Summer's garden until he gets a definitive answer to his questions regarding this divisive issue - or until he gets his butt kicked? Don't think it would take that long!

Enough! Somebody call the cops!

Ha ha ha - everyone knows ya can't polish a turd - but, ya can roll it in glitter!

Excellent! Only don't feed the damn thing! Now, where did I leave my big can of "Bullsh!t Repellent"? That should see the blighter off!

I get the feeling that this is turning into:- "the Return of the Son of Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar"

This stuff baffles me! "I bet the Helix cannot replicate this tone" Errr... well I bet it can, but I ain't falling for your challenge - to busy with new stuff! Why do you want, or need, to create a sound exactly like that? As stated by others on here, it's relatively straight forward to come up with something pretty close, although - it's all been done before - over and over and over! It hasn't sparked anything new! But it's not as simple as just getting "that sound" from the modeller of your choice (I notice you have also been trolling the Fractal forums with this challenge). If you want to replicate the "Police" sound a Telecaster would certainly help, alongside a ton of talent. It is also down to the player, Dave Gilmour and EVH sound like they do because that's who they are - they're unique. They don't painstakingly and carefully copy someone else's stuff. Besides, can you handle the stacked 5ths, added 9ths and suspensions that are Andy Summers speciality? Even Mr. Summers (who says that track is one of his faves) has evolved way beyond a tone he came up with almost 40 years back. Widen your horizons, check out some of his other stuff and even venture into things he did with Robert Fripp. Here's some stuff from an interview with Andy from Jan 2014: http://www.guitarplayer.com/artist-lessons/1026/play-like-andy-summers-during-the-police-years/12450 Now you can go away and learn! Oh! I almost forgot about this one - it's not "Massage in a Brothel" but it's another Andy Summers Police tone from Helix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYXgJttHj0 Do you want fries with that hat?

Aww c'mon Spikey, that's the same as all those people who said that Helix (Fractal, Kemper etc.) don't sound like "real" tube amps. We really are in the realms of "hairsplitting" now. Plus it has a tuner. Ya know ya love it! :p

Hi tboston777, As usual "phil_m" is correct - what you have on USB 7 is instrument level signal. Trim is only available on USB channels 1 & 2, but they are not used for re-amping purposes. I'm not entirely sure that I understand what you are wanting to achieve with the dry sound, but you could always normalise the signal when you print it to disk. Lots of other options for routing to different busses in your DAW with some sort of boost on there. I don't know why as the re-amping process will give you all the gain you require. Dry is dry, wet is well, considerably louder! Edit: trim is only on the output from USB 1&2

Yep, that's perfectly true and in fact that's the way I have worked for years, not just with Helix. The thing is, as phil_m has noted in his post, with "native" you don't require the physical Helix to be hooked up to use it. As for AD/DA converters, we have come a long way since the Commodore 64 and the SID chip but, we shall see how it goes. ;)

Hi talonmm, As far as the hardware and native software versions go, it's two way traffic, everything is the same in both. All the new amps and fx will be matched and whatever gets updated in one will be done to the other. One is software that lives in a box we call Helix and the other is software that uses your computer as a brain. The really good bit as far as your question goes is - yes you can record a perfectly dry guitar signal into you DAW of choice and then re-route that signal through the plug in to try out whatever amps and effects you want. The new audio can then be recorded to another channel. Not happy with the result - too much overdrive, distortion or reverb? Simply adjust the settings and run it again - as many times as you like till you are happy. The original is unaffected. Cool.

Well, it's out of the Helix box now!Re: available for download - quote from Digloo, Helix FW 2.20 Preview (The "Get Low" Update) AVAILABLE IN FEBRUARY—DON'T GO LOOKING FOR IT!

Groundhog Day - noooooooooo! That's the looper!Damn, Line 6 guys you have surpassed expectations - Auto Swell, MIDI clock & Variax Workbench integration. Yippee ki-yay!

Oh, that's just crazy!

Damn, now I'm confused! My IMac 5k has 32 gigabytes of RAM installed. Does this mean I can create a behemoth rig on the computer that's more than Helix can handle in hardware form. There must be a maximum limitation. & does it have built in tuner for "spikey" (mine is a software Peterson in the iPad and iPhone). $99 - bring it on.

We need "spikey" to check if there is an onboard tuner included, or it's a non starter!

DaveDaveDave, Surprise! Here's another three interesting words taken out of context from DI's post: "There won't be" That says it all.

Oops! Strike that. Once more you are correct, Phil - my mistake to have mentioned Avid, they are not involved. Doh! Another momentary lapse of reason!