visualrocker69 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Hi, sorry if this has been answered previously... Will Helix (HX) Modeling Engine ever be available in POD Desktop Bean Format in the foreseeable future? Any insight would be much appreciated, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulkbooth Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 They should :) The bean is the original POD :D But no, they only have the floor format and the rack format (With own floorboard) so far. You should put the idea to Ideascale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverhead Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Not a chance, ever. The Helix engine requires much more DSP capacity and other circuitry than is built into the Pod Hd. They would have to completely re-engineer the Pod Hd hardware - which they did and called it Helix. EDIT: Ooops... I misunderstood the question. I now realize the OP was asking only about the format of the device. My answer related to the actual POD HD device, not it's format. I have left my response here in case others make the same mistake I did, because it answers the misinterpreted question. As to the actual question, I strongly doubt that Helix functionality (especially the large display) could be made to fit the Pod Bean format/size. And given that the Helix UI is one of its strong selling points I don't think Line 6 would manufacture a device for it that can't handle the UI. As evidence of this, consider that the Helix Rack is a 3U device - not a 2U device like the Pod HD Pro. They couldn't fit everything required into 2U. Nor can it fit into the Bean format, and offering a larger Bean kinda defeats the purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulkbooth Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 They could size it up a bit, the original bean. And Call it: Bean XL? Big Bean? SuperBean? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 what is a 3U device? what is a 2U device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose7822 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 what is a 3U device? what is a 2U device? 3 and 2 rack space device respectively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 tks jose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brue58ski Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I'm pretty sure the POD bean concept is gone. The Helix isn't in the POD category, it's in the effects controller category. A big indication that there will be no Helix POD. The HD POD didn't sell very well. That's why it disappeared so fast. So I'm saying goodbye to the bean. It was fun while it lasted. I'm very sure we'll not see it again. At least not in the foreseeable future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaVox Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 what is a 3U device? what is a 2U device? 1U, 2U, 3U, etc... refers to the amount of verticle space a rack mounted device will occupy on the rack. "U" meaning unit. 1U occupies about 1.75 veriticle inches. 2U occupies twice that amount, 3.5 inches... and so on. Wikipedia has a "Rack unit" page with an illustration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_unit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smrybacki Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Bean-no...I'm betting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevell99 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Bean format with a HDMI port for a monitor? ;) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sulkbooth Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 4K LCD support of course :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jandrio Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 well the pod hx600 might well b a single processor unit with only the sound hx engine 'n without the fancy color ui.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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