SaschaFranck

Logics Space Designer is pretty much straight forward. Connect the output of your audio interface to the pedal, run the pedal output into your interface and you should be good to go. The resulting file will be an "SDIR" which you can convert to AIF/WAV within Logic. Possible arising issues: - The pedal might do some dynamic stuff. Dynamic processing can't be captured with IRs. - The pedal might add some spatial information longer than 2048 samples, which is the maximum IR length the HX series can deal with.

I'd be quite interested in that as well. Does something such as Wine run properly under Android? Wouldn't want to use something like a virtual machine (my Android Tablet isn't the most powerful one), so an emuator allowing you to run Windows software without Windows being installed would be great.

As far as it comes to plain reverbs, most certainly. But as said, there's a whole new world of sound design within the IR realm, going *way* beyond any typical reverbs.

Not really.

That's simply because you'd have to bring a laptop with you to do so. Something not many people like too much (myself included, even if I had done so already and am still sort of tempted).

Fwiw, here's some guitar noodling through what is a crumbled liquorice plastic bag recorded with a mobile phone (and then duplicated and shifted L/R). slapped into Logic's Space Designer: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEsAmHcDuCaEnYI863anKz6DC0H81Nlp/view?usp=sharing

Huh? IR-based reverbs are a computer-thing almost exclusively. In fact, the only hardware box I'm aware of is the Sony DRE-S777 (and then the Logidy Epsi, which had a pretty limited feature set and was likely never used in any studio or whatsoever). So they're far away from being either huge, heavy or bloody expensive. Some lines of code, sometimes even available for free (or coming with your host). No. You can easily manipulate the reverb tail by using an envelope. Does a pretty convincing job. Besides, it's not that important anyway, pretty much nobody adjusts their reverb tails on the fly in a modeler - especially not in the Helix as you'd have to do it for each and every preset using reverb. Apart from all that, for me the truly interesting thing would be to use IRs outside of the plain reverb realm. There's things you can do almos no reverb unit is capable of. And it's a big pile of fun to create some wild IRs. I'll post an example... Well, 30 years ago you were not using "convolve reverbs". They simply didn't exist. Sorry, but it seems you're mixing up something here.

No, you don't see them in samplers - at least not in hardware samplers (and in the end it's hardware we're talking about). But then, there's hardly much hardware samplers around anymore anyway (at least not in the form of dedicated samplers, they're usually embedded in multi purpose units or in highly specialized things). And as far as latency is concerned, there's zero latency IR reverbs, very well capable of processing things within the set buffer size of your DAW. Having said that, given a proper audio interface, I can play through IRs with as little latency as what most hardware modelers deliver. An interface such as an RME Babyface allows for roundtrip latencies of roughly 3.x milliseconds, pretty much the same ballpark as most modelers. Add to this that in most cases, a little extra latency for just the reverbed part of the signal shouldn't matter much at all, usually you set some predelay anyway. None of all that should be an issue.

I would not expect any current modeler to be updated with such a feature, but I'd expect some new versions to feature longer IR loading. I mean, the entire Axe FX III line was released over a decade after IRs became one of the most common things in software reverb land.

It's actually quite astonishing that not a single actual modeler (not even the super-computer-alike Axe FX III) is capable of dealing with longer IRs. Especially given that the (now unfortunately discontinued) EPSI Logidy did that several years ago already. And also given, that, say, my 2008 Macbook could already run quite a whole bunch of them simultaneously. That would open up a whole new world in terms of sound design (not only for plain reverbs).

Global blocks would solve at least quite some of these issues. But then, it seems the Helix will never get any comparable feature.

Fwiw, I would never purchase IRs round these parts. They're proprietary and serve no further purpose outside of the Helix ecosystem. Buy a pack straight from an IR vendor and you'll get a bunch of wavefiles which will never expire and can be used with whatever you like.

The problem is, in case L6 would do so, they would automatically admit that the Helix displays and LEDs were bad to start with. So they will never do anything. I'd take pretty much any bet on that, too. I mean, the issue is wellknown ever since the Helix has hit the streets. Which was around 7 years ago. You'd think that such an easy fix would've made it into the unit after such a long time, no? Anyway, voted your idea up.

This will make mounting the Helix onto a pedalboard quite a difficult task (plus you'll be wasting considerable board estate). In addition, it won't help much with light from the side or pretty diffuse light. You could likely build a better working solution yourself, using whatever plastic shield mounted on a flexible holder (are they called "gooseneck" holders in english as well?). That'd allow you to get away with less material and be more flexible, too. Anyway, none of these will really improve things. But Line 6 could do that, at least for the Helix Floor. Offer us an LT alike screen, ideally faking a monochrome b/w color scheme and also completely invert the scribble strips when switched on. Would cost them a few minutes of programming and help Floor users tremendously. But quite obviously, they have no plans on doing so.

No. You could try to install some kind of screen, but depending on the angle of the sunlight coming in, that might not help much. Fwiw, I found things to be just as bad with diffused lightning conditions, so moving into the shade doesn't help too much, either - unless you crawl below the stage or so. Just played quite a bunch of open air shows and it's been really horrible. As datacommando put so eloquently, yes, I have lots to say. In a nutshell, the Helix is the worst of all floor units I've ever used when it comes to proper visability. What I did was trying to go for a snapshot-only-solution on those particular gigs. As I'm always only using one patch per gig, these are easy to remember and in case of doubt which one is selected, I just press the switch again. I usually vastly prefer a mixture of snapshots and stomps, but in case you can't even remotely see the status of the stomps, that just doesn't work. And yes, even if the Line 6 fanboys don't like to read it: This is a clear sign of incredibly bad quality assurance. The unit has never been properly tested under any such conditions (or the outcome of those tests has been ignored, which is just every bit as bad).

Thing is, what you actually want (just as what I wanted) is the "embedded" parameters of the Split Block to be excluded from Snapshot Bypass, not the bypass state itself. The solution would be to offer a Split Block that would, say, still route the entire signal through path A when bypassed and only do what the parameters say when active.

Exactly. I was trying to do something at least sort of similar on my Floor and eventually had to give up because of that lack.

You got that part right, I am indeed rarely wrong, simply because I prefer to inform myself before posting. But no, I wouldn't call my posts "civil" but "honest".

I guess you may know what a backup plan is. Rest assured, I got one. And as far as me not getting a replacement yet, as said, I have explained that before. Search for it or don't. Apart from that, GT-1000s haven't been available here for a rather long time in shops, and to check out one carefully, that'd be a pre-requisite.

You couldn't have less of a clue. But that's almost business as usual here.

Reasons. Valid reasons. Which I even explained.

So what?

You're actually right, I just tried. That's pretty lame.

Line 6 hardware is notoriously failing. The Helix Floor is STUFFED with cheap components - and yes, that's a fact, nothing I'm making up.

It is. Opening it shouldn't be the biggest deal and I may try it before selling it (which is now a definite thing to happen somewhen this year). For the upcoming gigs I'll just grab my Cry Baby. Just don't assign the switch, easy.