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I am covering songs in which the musicians are not tuned to A440, but different frequencies, e.g. 450, almost right between A and A# in standard tuning, and that prevents me from using the tuner to tune, and just use one of the pitch shifters blocks, AFAICS. Is there any way to have a pitch shift referencing a different base A frequency ?

No, they didn't. I guess they don't want to have to spend time diagnosing something for which they won't be able to sell a repair.

Finally got an answer from melison: they say Line6 no longer provides spare parts for the Variax 700 so they cannot do it. Any suggestion ?

Thanks for your answer. If I understand how the site works, it seems I should contact sav@melison.fr , that site being the only one listed around Paris. Is that correct ?

Just had a problem yesterday on stage: plugging my Variax Bass to the Bass Pod XT Live with the Variax connector started causing variable issues: most of the time, the sound works, but the Pod is frozen: no way to change sounds, switch to tuning mode; and even the volume pedal does nothing. The pod display switches from its normal display (bank/number) to something with a dot in it and a lowercase letter sometimes, there is just no sound other times, there is a low-level sound, very weak. unplugging the Variax restores the Pod operation; replugging it makes the problem reappear Any suggestions ?

Thanks for the answer, although it's rather discouraging (though none of your fault): I can't continue using the Bass POD XT Live as there's no longer any backup/editor tool for it I can use on current macOS ; Variax Bass + Helix will likely be more limited than it used to be with the pod ; Line6 support doesn't accept providing the source for these tools so I could port/recompile them to current versions ; and they refuse to even provide the MIDI implementation reference in order to create a new backup utility ; and of course there's no announced new Variax bass on the horizon. Meh. But

Hello. I'm quite tempted to purchase a Helix to replace my trusty Bass Pod XT Live now that Line6 no longer provides working software for in on macOS Mojave ; but I'm weary of one thing: I'm using a Variax bass with the Bass POD, and they have dedicated presets, and communication mechanisms. However, in the Helix user manual, there are plenty of references to what one can do with the Variax Standard or James Tyler guitar, but exactly zero reference to the Variax basses. What exactly is the level of interaction I can expect ? e.g.: "nothing", "just power", "power and audio", "bass knobs work like EXP-n pedals like on Variax guitars", "preset change can change the emulated bass in the bass ? What else ?