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I cannot find any information in the Helix manual about the specification and calibration of external expression pedals. What wiring is expected, which pedals are compatible? How do you calibrate the external pedals? My Roland EV-5 doesn't work well with the Helix. When its 'minimum Volume' pot is set to 0 (= default setting), the parameter on the Helix goes from min to max to min when the pedal travels from min to max! When the EV-5's minimum volume is set to 10, the parameter on the helix goes from 0% to 92%, not to 100%. The latest thread that I found is from 2018. It doesn't help me with my problem.

I think the Variax model parameter is broken. With previous firmware, it was possible to change the Variax model with the Variax hardware and then I could see its name and save it in the 'Variax-Model' parameter of the Helix preset. With firmware 3.70, my Helix Floor doesn't recognize the Variax model any more when it is changed manually on the Variax with the model knob and the 5-way switch. And when I recall a factory preset which is set to 'don't force model', the sound doesn't change at all when I select another model on the Variax. Maybe it is set to the magnetic PUs then.

Can someone of the line 6 staff please explain why they are not interested in fixing the LFO start bug? Is it too complicated? Too few complaints about this? I understand that introducing new effects or amps is more fun for the Line6 marketing. But wouldn't it be worth to make all modulation effects much more usable again with fixing a singe bug?!?

There is a tool for upgrading legacy cabs in your presets with the new cabs: https://helixcabupgrade.azurewebsites.net/CabUpgrade Very nice guy, making this available to the public! Is there a tool provided by line6 to to this, too?

Ah, thanks a lot. I've got a Variax JTC-89, so I thought "Variax" should be applicable... apparently not.

I had my Laptop running on battery, usually I use the power supply. But even when I plugged it in again, reinstalled HX edit and restarted the laptop, the connection was gone, the helix device in the "audio, video and game controller" window was missing. Today when I started the laptop, everything works. ?!? Maybe a Windows 10 bug? I don't like these suprises...

IN HX edit I get the "no device connected" error message. The Helix usb midi port is gone, I don't see it in Ableton Live any more. Maybe I have to reinstall the driver? How do I do that?

This doesn't answer my question, but nevertheless thank you for sharing your philosophy about presets. I restored the factory packs and now I'd like to know if there are any new factory presets that show the new amps and effects.

Are there new factory presets that show the new amps, effects etc.? I don't see any added presets, but I don't know the factory presets by heart of course.

Serum support just told me that Pitch bend is it's own dedicated MIDI message (14-bit). 7 bit (standard cc) isn't enough resolution for bends without hearing granularity. so mapping CC to pitch bend is not a good idea. Maybe an expression pedal together with the midi solitions pedal converter http://www.midisolutions.com/prodped.htm can give good results.

I often use Massive, Serum and Omnisphere. If you know a workaround for for one of them, I'd be very happy! Serum doesn't provide midi learn for the pitch wheel. And Massive and Omnisphere don't even have a pitch wheel at their GUI I think. Somewhere I read now that Pitch bend is not one of the standard 127 Midi CC messages, it is a separate control. Helix cannot send pitch bend commands, do I understand this correctly?

I want to control pitch while I'm playing a software synth. Actually I'm playing the synth with my guitar via a Fishman tripleplay. As I don't have a whammy bar on the guitar, I usually use the Pitch Wham block of the Helix with the expression pedal. But Pitch Wham is an audio effect, I need to change pitch with midi pitch bend command now. Maybe converting the CC commands of the expression pedal to pitch bend commands can be done with something like midi pipe, but I would prefer a solution which is not so complicated...

Is it possible to send pitch bend midi command with the expression pedal? I thought it might be CC02, but that doesn't work.

Ah! Thank you very much, this solved my problem. How do you know such things? I never saw it mentioned in the Helix or Variax manual. But maybe I didn't read carefully enough.