SaschaFranck

Fwiw, I just updated to Sequoia today and so far things seem to be fine, HX Native included. Don't take my word for anything, though.

Very likely, a patch isn't even needed. But I hesitate to update to Sequoia without knowing - especially without knowing I could easily go back.

Yes and no. So far, Sequoia seems to cause pretty much no issues for pretty much all plugins. Don't wanna be their guinea pig, though. Because of that, so far my way of dealing with things was to create a bootable image, update and check whether things were fine. In case they were, great, in case they weren't, I'd simply return to my image. But I just learned the hard way that this isn't working anymore on any M-Macs. They can't reliably be booted from an image, no matter how you created it. And to add to this, you can't easily go back to previous versions via Time Machine or whatsoever, either, as long as there's been a major OS update inbetween. IOW, Apple has managed to completely destroy one of the features that I always found to be most amazing. Apple and their fanboys are all like "It's because of additional security" - but nobody has provided a single example so far. Sucks, really.

Would like to know as well.

You're very welcome. Fwiw, as much as Line 6 might've messed up their update processes (apparently it has gotten somewhat better, but there's still the same issues with each and every update, just slightly less...), they defenitely deserve some props to still support older macOSes as well. Many companies just don't, asking you to run the latest or second to latest OS.

Is the parameter value displayed in white?

Unfortunately, no. Works fine here with the Stomp. I'm using it slightly different though, as I'm using one input to record, the other to monitor. As the M2 has no dedicated mixing utility, the input gain also controls the monitoring level (pretty stupid, really...), but I work around that by "wasting" one input just for monitoring purposes, hence being able to use the input gain pot as a monitor volume control.

The M2 has *way* better latency than the Helix, too. We're talking 3.5 vs. 15+ milliseconds, the former being pretty much the best in its class, the latter being the worst. So once you're as well using amp plugins straight ahead (without monitoring through HX sounds), the M2 is most excellent (in fact, it's the reason why I bought one) while the HX series devices are completely inacceptable (at least for me).

Have you tried older updates?

The M2 preamps will still be in the signal path.

No, just no, that's just nonsense. By that token, I guess you never use your guitar's tone control, either. Let alone the tone stack of your amp. Because, well, they're EQs, too.

Well, he's saying he's regularly tuned down as low as to drop F# or even F. That's as low as 46.2493 or even 43.6535 Hz. A lot of standard monitors will start showing issues to faithfully transport these frequencies. Let alone do that with a certain tightness, the latter often related to a certain lack of mass/stability.

No real idea, to be honest. You might want to consider one of the more guitar oriented ones (such as those from Mission Engineering, but they're quite expensive). Or well, in case you're pretty much always tuned that low, perhaps even a bass cab (they're more or less fullrange, too) would be suitable. You might also want to checl out an RCF, I always found those to be pretty much on the punchy side. But you would have to carefully check everything anyway. Just adding a subwoofer to some 15" which already go quite low likely won't do it.

I'd rather think about getting different monitors. The Mackie Thumps aren't suited too well for tight low end ooomph and chugging.

Well, yes and no. In case I decide to use the Stomp's input gate, at least the noise in playing pauses is filtered out already. Also, in case you're using quality PSUs, the differences between pedal-in-loop and pedal-in-front aren't huge. And for me, the additional comfort of running it in a loop outweighs that little extra noise by far.