SaschaFranck

Fwiw, I haven't been running into any issues when setting up my (pretty much brandnew) Macbook Air around 2 months ago. Yeah, I had to allow installation, but that was it.

Have a look here and tell us whether it worked: https://line6.com/support/topic/65019-helixhx-update-doesnt-work-look-here/#comment-444243

Are you running your amp clean?

Just as a note: In case you're slapping an always-on pedal in front of the Helix, you'll be losing the input impedance functionalities.

As long as we don't know whether something has noticeably changed (and if so, how much), it's all pure speculation. I was just saying that in case different components were used, the sound could be different as well. But hey, maybe the newer units are made better. Especially the Floors/LTs could do with more solid hardware. But then, the notion about the less sturdy feeling knobs doesn't make me believe in that.

They could as well have used different op amps and converters. In that case the hardware would matter.

Well, for the thing that has been asked for, the Helix is probably even a better choice than a small mixer.

Just that it actually is. At least partially.

He'll likely lose the mic input then.

Zoom/Loom only see the inputs of your Helix. Reapers output isn't one of them, it's routed straight to the output section of the Helix. On a Mac, I'd possibly use Soundflower (a virtual audio cable) to route everything into Zoom/Loom, no idea what to do on a Windows machine. Most people doing such things more often use interfaces with a socalled loopback function, but the Helix doesn't have anything like that. There might be some nifty routing options via some of the Helix' USB "streams" typically used for re-amping, but I can't check myself as I don't have a Helix anymore (just an HX Stomp).

Well... err..., yeah, it's a bit tough to say so, but even as someone who was always playing the "enough amps already, use what's there, who cares about authentic XYZ?" advocate, I have to admit that the amps added in the 3.7 update are just fantastic and pretty much all I'm using now (in case the HX Stomp is my amp platform, which it isn't all the time). Especially the 2203 and Voltage amps are great and pretty much the best dirt pedal platform I can imagine. Oh yes, I would've gotten along just fine without them, and in case I had the choice between those and, say, a global block functionality being added, I'd take the latter in a heartbeat - but still, I can't deny having huge fun with those new amp additions. In a nutshell, I'm a bit split-minded. In general, I rather take new functionality and utilitarian improvements over more sounds any day, though.

Sorry to possibly come across as a smartass or so, but where's the awsomeness in these requests? People are asking for separate power amp models pretty much since day one and as far as new amp models are concerned, I'm sure each and every amp on earth has been asked for already. Sure, valid requests (especially the poweramp one, as it'd add some new core functionality), yet IMO far from qualifying as "awsome".

Great, they're breaking their own tool.

If only it was like that - in that case you could've saved some installers locally (which is what I did). But they just won't install anymore anyway. Anything with 32bit traces is gone since Catalina already, one of the next macOS updates (maybe this year already) will have no Rosetta support anymore, so anything with Intel traces will not work anymore, either.

What's the big knob for you? The volume one or the joystick?

Man, I'm telling you... first I learned to live with macOS. Then I learned to almost love it. And then I just learned to hate Apple. Add to this that I'm also using quite some things from Native Instruments, hardware included. There's no worse combination. It's either Apple killing compatibility or NI not delivering updates anymore. As a result, heaps of plugins aren't working anymore (all Battery versions <v4, Pro 53, Intakt, older Kontakt versions, B4, FM7, Bandstand, Kore, now also Absynth, etc.), and as if that wasn't bad enough already, my Maschine MkI, Kore Kontrol and Rig Kontrol 2 are all rendered doorstops. NI: "It'a all Apple's fault!" (when it clearly is not), Apple: "It's all NI's fault!" (when it clearly is not). Blaargh!

Unfortunately, Apple's pace at doing so is unrivalled. Planned obsolescense galore.

As I'm on a "vintage" Mac (Mac Pro from 2010) running Mojave, I can't exactly tell, but my best bet would be that there's some Intel "traces" in Line 6's software, requiring Rosetta to run in the background - which, AFAIK, Apple will throw out at one point in time (which will be when they happen to think developers had enough time to adjust). And that point will happen rather sooner than later because Apple doesn't give the slightest damn about their customers.

Correct. Don't look for the correct plug for too long, better get an adapter cable (or two, just in case). That way you should be able to use pretty much any halfway decent power supply.

No (and this is very important), the Stomp needs a 2.5mm plug. Any standard plugs won't fit (which is really, really stupid, btw.).

Sure. And it seems to work as in the manual. No idea why it wouldn't work for jeremiahzellers, though. Also no idea why Digital Igloo wrote something different in the release notes, but "not some global reverb or delay" is pretty unclear anyway (what's up with the "global" thing?). As said, can't check anything by myself.

And fwiw, unfortunately, I can't check for myself as I downgraded to a Stomp.

No, before you tell someone they're misunderstanding things, you should rather check some facts before, because in this case, very clearly you are the one to misunderstand the function (or at least the way how it is intended to work). This is straight from the manual: "If you’re willing to sacrifice one of Helix’s two DSPs, you can achieve true preset spillover, complete with delay and reverb trails." Whether this works as supposed is another thing, but at least it is supposed to work.

This is happening automatically once you activate spillover, so he doesn't have to actively sacrifice that very DSP. And as he seems to have activated spillover, I don't see how he could misunderstand anything.

Pretty sure it doesn't come with a wrench, so you'll have to get one. I adjusted my EXP as well (and carefully lubricated it with a little bit of the good old WD40), but I don't remember which size the wrench was (I have a whole lot of them hanging around) and can't check, either, as I'm just owning an HX Stomp these days.