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Something I would find extremely useful (and I discovered so would the members of the Helix facebook group) is a feature that I had on one of the earliest cab modelers out there - the Digitech Legend 21. The old dinosaur had a “Compare” function, so that at any moment while tweaking an established preset, you could hit “Compare”  to check the sound of what your tweaking compared to how it sounded before you began tweaking. Your preset is the established reference point, and throughout the tone-adjusting process you could periodically A/B to see if you were moving your sound in the direction you wanted to go. It’s one thing I miss on the Helix.

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You can do the same thing with snapshots. Keep the original on one snapshot and move to another one. It should keep the old settings if you haven't done anything to that snapshot. Go back to the original snapshot to compare. When you go to the new one again it will still maintain the settings you changed until you leave the patch.

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On 12/19/2022 at 10:59 AM, brue58ski said:

You can do the same thing with snapshots. Keep the original on one snapshot and move to another one. It should keep the old settings if you haven't done anything to that snapshot. Go back to the original snapshot to compare. When you go to the new one again it will still maintain the settings you changed until you leave the patch.

 

Retaining the edits in the snapshot you are editing after a comparison, will depend on your global settings --> Preferences --> 'Snapshot Edits' setting. You will want to have 'Snapshot Edits' = 'Recall" if you want to jump back and forth using this method to compare snapshots, without losing your edits to the snapshot you are modifying.

 

If set to "Discard" you will have to remember to explicitly save the preset before you switch snapshots, or you will lose your edits. Easier just to use the 'Recall' setting for this comparison method.

 

From the Helix manual:

"'Snapshot Edits' - Determines whether or not any edits made to a snapshot (block on/off, parameter control, Command Center, tempo) are remembered when returning to that snapshot. When set to “Recall,” any snapshot edits are recalled when jumping from snapshot to snapshot, and appear as you last left them. When set to “Discard,” any snapshot edits are discarded when jumping from snapshot to snapshot, and appear as the preset was last saved. If you want to save changes made to a snapshot while Snapshot Edits is set to “Discard,” press SAVE twice before selecting another. The camera icon on the home screen shows you the Snapshot Edits setting at a glance—When set to “Recall,” the camera is gray; when set to “Discard,” the camera is red. At any time, hold BYPASS and press SAVE to toggle this setting. See "Determining Snapshot Edit Behavior""

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