setting parameters like a potentiometer instead of precentage

[miguel_lopez]

is it possible to set parameters of any kind as a potentiometer behavior instead of levels by percentage as it is in helix software?

 

since all controls are bassicaly a roller pot from 0-10 we all are more used to "see" the pot in a position instead of a percentage

 

is there a way to change this view? or is there a possibility to ask for Line6 to get this application in the nex FW update?

 

thanx for reading

[ChristThePhone]

I'd actually prefer to see the front panel of the emulated device (which of course would have pots). The current implementation doesn't provide a good overview but it's cheap to realize.

[arislaf]

I wouldn't like something like this...

[Verne-Bunsen]

...or is there a possibility to ask for Line6 to get this application in the nex FW update?

 

You can submit a feature request on Ideascale where other users can see it and vote on it. It seems they're pretty good about paying attention to stuff that gets a lot of votes.

 

http://line6.ideascale.com/

[DunedinDragon]

is it possible to set parameters of any kind as a potentiometer behavior instead of levels by percentage as it is in helix software?

 

 

Yes...use the potentiometer on the Helix unit itself and it will reflect accurately in the software.

[tagwap]

I too would prefer the look of actual pot knobs to set levels instead of the current sliders. It'd be great if while you were making the adjustments the screen would switch to a graphical representation of the pedal/amp with knobs moving. It'd also be great to have the EQ's show up as graphs while editing them. It would make it much much easier to see what you are doing in the normal guitar gear way. Most other systems (fractal,zoom, etc show knob representations.) Just my preference.

[miguel_lopez]

thanx for your kind replies!

 

Have you ever worked with music(sounds) editors? I work with cubase. In the preferences you can adjust how sensitive you need the commands response(controls/pots/sliders); in Helix, instead of pots(if this is not possible to change the software) setting 'sensibility' to the commands would be awesome too

 

thanx again!

[mdmayfield]

If this were implemented, I'd hope that it would have a Preferences option to turn it on or off. I strongly prefer the current way with percentages.

[DunedinDragon]

I guess this all depends on how big L6 wants to make the editor.  It could easily become some bloated piece of software that takes more time to load and interact with the hardware than it's worth.

 

For me it's pretty close to that now.  Just seeing how long it takes for an adjustment I make on the Helix to be reflected accurately in the editor makes me think there may not be a whole lot more room for additional features without slowing down that interaction even further.

 

That's pretty much why I do everything on the Helix itself and use the editor just to manage backups and such.  Well, that and the fact that I have no intention of needing to use the editor at a live performance in order to tweak something on a patch....

[dalto]

Personally, I can't stand it when software does this.

 

I find dragging up and down to turn a knob completely unintuitive.

[miguel_lopez]

thank you very much for your kind replies, again

 

even the volume/tone controls in your guitar are interactive/intuitive enough

 

I'm thinking by now more in the transition we are all having in this brand new format with lots of feautures we didn't find in other gears; but an amp is controlled by pots.

 

(and I'm trying to choose carefuly my words not to incomodate other's opinions about this "new feauture") but I really miss a 0-10(0-100%) pot control to set my tone

 

effects NEED this too

 

I think about the MXR 10 band eq as a 'car stereo' device(I own two: front and send/return; is a must in my gear)

 

but all stomp boxes are tweaked by 0-10 pots!!!

 

I'm gonna do my job: trying by force to get USED to this new wave of interactive software desing feautures and if I can't handle it, then I'll try to contact Line6 management to BEG for this feauture in some future update

 

thanx for your support

[dalto]

even the volume/tone controls in your guitar are interactive/intuitive enough

 

For me, personally, it is one of those areas where software is different than reality.  With a physical knob you can grab it and turn it.  Yes, that is intuitive.

 

In software, not only can you not grab the knob but you have options, such as increased granularity, that are not super easy to do with a physical knob.  A control like a slider is much more effective than a knob in software.

 

Look at it this way, if you had never used a pedal or physical amp would you still expect the controls in the software to be knobs?

[miguel_lopez]

 

Look at it this way, if you had never used a pedal or physical amp would you still expect the controls in the software to be knobs?

 

...and I thought nobody was gonna answer to this post =)

 

a little bit of my story:

 

Bassicaly I'ma a very rare case of classical guitar player who got into the net of a spider called Line6

 

I studied classical music professionally

 

and my first amp-guitar combo was a PODxt/Variax 500-700; I could NOT be happier in my entire life when this treasure came in my hands

 

nowadays I own 40 REAL electric guitars(all of them totally modified) and 8 tube and solid state amps carefuly set up

 

a decent pedal train and tons of devices to make a dream tone rig

 

even I own a professional recording studio

 

so the transition from ONLY nylon strings(and ONLY classical music) to PODxt/Variax to REAL DEAL to Helix has been such an incredible experience

 

I just think Helix is something NEW to me; but I still need pots in the Helix software(at least the option)

 

thank you