jay_hate

Gotcha. I’m new to the Variax setup so humor me while I catch up. So with the Pod I can change tunings and the guitar modeling on the Variax but without the workbench hardware/software I have to work off of what’s already built into the brain of the guitar already?

There is a lot going on in here and I’m getting a little lost. I’m a lefty and it’s EXTREMELY difficult to find left handed Variax guitars and they’re limited to Variax 500 it seems. I own a Pod Hd500x and found a Lefty Variax 500 that I’d like to buy IF it works together. What does and doesn’t work with that rig??

I recently picked up an HD500x and I bought the HD Metal pack while it was on sale and it got me thinking. I saw somewhere that the model packs were something requested often in the forum and users said they were willing to pay, so they were developed as a premium update instead of letting the product go into legacy. My question is this, how much more information do the Helix amp models take up vs the HD Pod amp models? The thought process goes like this: the HD500x is a new beefier version of the HD500 where the Helix is an entirely new product, but to my understanding they work basically the same way. Let's just throw some imaginary numbers out to illustrate the point I'm getting at. Let's pretend the HD500x has 1 gig of ram and each module within a patch takes up 200mb's of ram, therefore in that scenario you could only run 5 modules at once. I would imagine the modules for the Helix in comparison would be dramatically larger obviously. But should they not be pretty much the same thing just larger? The point I'm trying to get at is would it be possible to wrap up the Helix amp models into premium HD500x upgrades? Obviously they would take up dramatically more ram, but if I could run a single Helix amp model just for tracking I'd be willing to pay for that. I understand that the A/D/A conversion is better on the Helix and the patches wouldn't sound as good as on the Helix hardware, but they'd sound better than the Pod HD models wouldn't they? I dunno, just a thought. Anyone else wanna chime in?