SaschaFranck

I understand it in a way that the source capture will be generated straight on the unit, but you could as well send it to the cloud (given the unit is connected) and use their servers for optimization (which is pretty much what ToneX does, just that it doesn't generate captures on it's own, it's all cloud based).

Raw DSP juice seems to be 2-2.5 as much according to some L6 representative in some YT comment. Anything else can not be answered but I'd guess that some of that power overhead will also be used to improve quite some FX.

So far 16 genuine new ones and ALL old modules minus the very old hybrid cabs. So your presets should load 1:1 unless you've used the latter. Given the success of HXN, I'd bet they will do that.

That's not exactly true. The levels on USB 7/8 are exactly the same levels used by the Helix internally. And when you use a Helix send at instrument level, they're perfectly fine to feed an analogue amp.

You don't need the Radial in this setup. Just use a send of the Helix to feed your amp. You can set them to instrument level and they're pretty much as if they were made for this purpose.

Ah, good to hear/read!

Defenitely looking like pet hair - but that'd possibly only explain some smell, not the power supply heating up so quickly (IMO it'd take much more hair to cause that), let alone some serious glitchy malfunction. I say taking it to a decent tech is the best bet here.

Maybe, maybe not. There might be obvious hints. But as said, I'd rather take it to someone qualified.

In case there's smell, it's time to take it to a tech and have it inspected (unless you can do it on your own). You risk frying it completely otherwise.

I noticed the same thing on some patches with the Floor. Especially when running stuffed kitchen sink presets, some switching actions don't happen simultaneously. Sometimes this may lead to "overlaps" (when, say, switching one amp off and another one on), sometimes the result is a small gap (as you've experienced). It's somewhat trial'n'error, too. In that particular patch causing the amp "overlap", when I reversed the amp's order, the issue was gone.

Oh, now I remember (really sorry for the confusion everyone!): As I was using a latched switch back in my Floor days, I could use it pretty much as an actual expression pedal and only had to deal with the min/max values. Obviously, that wouldn't work as good (or possibly not at all) with a momentary switch. Pretty strange they couldn't add that to the bigger devices through a FW update...

Why would that be? The Floor can do everything the Stomp can. Back when I had a Floor, I had two switches connected, they just worked fine. Admittedly, they were latching types, but that shouldn't matter at all. Fwiw, I'm using exactly the same Ampero switch with my Stomp and there's no issues. Did you look inside Command Center? Also, did you set them to work as additional switches in your global settings?

Hm, but the sound folks have better EQs themselves and actual control of the FOH sound. That's exactly what I'd recommend as well.

Yeah, I forgot about that. Fortunately, the Helix makes it easy doing this.

That is true - or rather not relevant as you'd typically feed a DI box with the 1/4 out anyway. Whatever, what I was doing back in my HX Floor days (apart from using a phantom power blocker at first, but that was annoying as it actually required phantom power to work, for whatever reasons...) was using the XLR out to feed my monitor while sending the 1/4 out the FOH way, running into a DI box first. Fortunately, these days I don't have to deal with questionable XLR outs anymore...

How exactly did you try to limit the position value?

It's not coming with dedicated drivers for macOS as it seems. That means it's using the "native" Core Audio support of macOS, which isn't allowing for very low latencies.

The downside of such a setup being that it'd add what I'd think of being "considerable" amounts of latency. An HX loop will add around 2ms on its own (I hope it's only taking the latency of one single path into account, otherwise it'd be around 4ms) and you'd then have to add the computer latency, which, depending on your budget, could be anything from around 2ms (requiring a powerful computer and an expensive interface) to, say, 6ms (which can be achieved by sort of budget computers and interfaces already. So you'd get around 5-8ms of latency on top of the 4ms the HX hardware comes with. Let's say you may end up with 10ms. For me, especially when playing through headphones, that's in a well noticeable range. And add to that that at least some plugins (or HX blocks) will add some bits of their own latency as well. I mean, just the PolyCapo on its own is adding so much that I personally never use it. Personally, if I was to go the plugin route, I'd do it consequently. There'd be no single sound cables running to and from the floor anymore and it'd also add the immense flexibility of just needing your laptop and an interface to have access to all your sounds, even without what is a rather bulky floor unit.

You can have all that. Just not within any current HX series hardware (it's simply not powerful enough for a start, let alone the operating system being something extremely different). You could slap a computer based setup together and use it live. And it'd possibly be a lot cheaper than any hypothetical modeler allowing you to do these things (which would possibly cost at least 2 times as much as current offerings). What you need is: - A computer of some sorts, preferably a laptop. If I was thinking about such a setup, a Macbook Air M3 (or likely an M4, which should be released rather soon) would be my prefered choice. The main reasons being that it's incredibly power efficient, has zero moving parts inside and gets just lukewarm with the lid closed (which is absolutely important for live playing as you don't want the keyboard to be exposed to anything like a beer shower). The smallest model would be sufficient (in case you don't want to run large sample libraries as well). I can run 3-4 fully loaded instances of Helix Native on one single core. That's just mindblowing. - A low latency audio interface of some sorts. I'm using a Motu M2 which is delivering a roundtrip latency of just 3.5ms at 44.1kHz samplerate. That's pretty much as good as a Helix Floor with both paths connected serially. You could of course get even lower by getting, say, an RME interface and raising the samplerate (which would obviously cost quite some CPU cycles, but there's plenty of juice - see above). We're now talking about <2ms roundtrip latency, which would even allow you to set up some send/return routings without running into latency issues. - A floor controller of some sorts (plus some expression pedal/s). There's gazillions by now, it's just a matter of your budget. - Ideally a tablet or an external MIDI knob box to remote control things when the laptop is closed and placed in a rack drawer (which is the only way I'd accept it to be on a stage). A cheap Android tablet running TouchOSC can go a long way here (I'm using just that to control some aspects of my current pedalboard). - Some software to run things. On macOS, Mainstage springs to mind, cost around 30 bucks and comes with all of Logic's FX already. You can have all amps in the world kinda for free in case you'd be using the NAM plugin and some captures. - Some decent rack to secure and transport things in. Overall cost of all that would possibly set you short by something along the lines of 2k, in case you're on a budget. 2.5k would already give you a pretty great setup and in case you can spend 3k there'd be little else to wish for. You could possibly save 500-1.000 buying 2nd hand. Yes, that's a lot more expensive than a Helix Floor, but it's incredibly more capable. In case I ever want to slap a new setup together, this is a route I will very seriously consider.

Are we talking about recorded tracks here or the amps you're playing through in the Stomp itself?

Import as many as possible (the overall limit is 128) and go through them. A good way to do so quickly would be to place a looper block as the first thing in the signal chain and record something into it. That way you don't have to play, so you can concentrate on editing and listening. Fwiw, I don't think you need to worry much about IRs when playing jazzy stuff. The "new" cabs (came with the second to latest firmware) are absolutely excellent. The same goes for the rather new Super Reverb amp. Using that and the matching cab should really get you a very decent jazz sound, given you feed it with the right guitar. Here's some noodling bits (not exactly authentic jazz, but hey...) with just the Super Reverb and its matching cab, used an old Ibanez 335 clone (a real jazz box would get you even more authentic jazz tones easily): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gd9s9IHC302UnQY0atJGGhuTzbiTFsd5/view?usp=sharing I also have a self-"shot" (and mixed) IR that IMO is doing a great job for live purposes. It's a bit more mid-rangey than most cabs, simply because I feel that's what's needed in a live setting. Feel free to try it out as well (there's 2 IRs in the file, one is a little brighter): https://drive.google.com/file/d/128SMeXg2tvsyG3Y7Px07GZqDL0LyrYcs/view?usp=sharing

Downdate, record something, update, record something, ideally using reamping or Helix Native. Then compare. That's the only way to really find out.

Of course. Just navigate to the right on the cab block.

Did you register the unit? If so, the discount should show up automatically when you're logged in.

Did you as well do a factory reset *after* the FW update? That's highly recommended and there's been some reports about units not working as supposed without doing that reset.