evh0u812 Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 After being a long long time Fractal owner Ive made the move over to Helix and for the most part I love it. Im mainly using the Helix in 4CM so for me its all about the effects. What I miss is running parallel effects with the ability to assign whether the effect is simply byassed when off or muted. Maybe Ive missed something but when an effect is off it simply passes dry signal through it which is no good for parallel signal chains. Is this possible with Helix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zooey Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 I think you'll need to control the mix of a split or merge block to handle that, so whether the effect itself is bypassed or not, you're not hearing its output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmk5140 Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Yep. Easiest is to change the split block to A/B and assign a controller to toggle the signal flow between A and B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evh0u812 Posted July 20, 2016 Author Share Posted July 20, 2016 Ahh, thanks guys that makes sense. Far from perfect but better than I had it figured. :P Maybe in a future firmware revision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmal75 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Hi all, in some patches I'm using the Helix also in 4CM with a Mesa dual rectifier (it has a pure parallel effects loop). so, because I have a Helix delay block in the Mesa loop I need to mute the delay when it is bypassed (to prevent direct sound from both delay and mesa) Actually I'm using a Volume block just before the delay set to volume 0 when on then I'm controlling the bypass of both blocks: when delay is on the volume is bypassed, when delay if off the volume is 0. this is working, but I'll try your suggestion as well because it sounds quite simple. Anyway I think the mute in bypass should be a property of any block: hope to find it in a future release. Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsking1 Posted September 24, 2016 Share Posted September 24, 2016 Anyway I think the mute in bypass should be a property of any block: hope to find it in a future release. I agree this would be a great feature to have. Would simplify some things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malhavok Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 You can pretty easily do this by assigning the footswitch to control the "level" param from -120 to 0.0dB instead of assigning it to on/off. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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