Assign Disappointment

[xuoham]

Hi,

 

I just got a HXFX and it seems that it is not possible to assign multiple control sources to a single parameter, footswitch or midi CC.

 

Multiple parameters for one source=OK

Multiple sources for one parameter=NG

 

What a bummer !

It's a major disappointment for what i intended to do with it.

 

I don't wanna use snapshots because it takes two footswitches for two values whereas one assign only uses one.

 

I am a long time BOSS user and regardless all the things i like in Helix and Co, Line 6 really sucks with assigns, where BOSS is a joy to use, and they don't have that snapshot thing.

 

In detail, i use delays for looping: one footswitch simultaneously activates the delay block from bypass and turns the feedback from 100% to another value (50% or + for slowly decaying loop, and 0 % for punching holes in the loop)

 

Ideally, for the same delay block, i want

-One footswitch to turn on the delay from its bypass state and get the feedback at, let's say 70%

-Another footswitch to turn on the delay from its bypass state and get the feedback at 0%.

 

With BOSS, BEEBO, ZOIA, etc ... it's easy to do so but sadly nope with my HXFX.

 

I am right now thinking hard about a solution but i am very disappointed and a bit pissed at myself for not reading carefully enough before purchasing.

 

The only solution i see for now is to  take out my Morningstar MC6MKII (which i was happy not to have to use after getting the HXFX) and get two of it's footswitches send the same midi CC but at different values.

 

Speaking of Morningstar, that's really a product whose designers really imagined all the musician scenarios thoroughly.

I don't have that feeling with HX. Its assigns rigidness is not very creative, imho.

 

I got the HXFX because it can have up to 8 seconds delay but if the GT1000 or Core (i own both) had more than 2 seconds delay i would have stayed with BOSS.

 

Too bad because the Helix series has a lot of sexy things thart BOSS doesn't have and i'm not a fan boy, i wanna love the HX but that assign shing ... (sigh)

 

 

 

 

[theElevators]

What you are describing can be achieved with snapshots. 

You can bypass or unbypass your delay, and change the feedback percentage inside snapshots.  So you can create 2 such snapshots. You can use stackable snapshots where one button cycles through multiple snapshots. 
 

 

 

 

[xuoham]

Oh, snapshots are stackable ?? (HX newbie here)

Thanks, i'll give it a try !

[theElevators]

You can also use an expression pedal, and assign a feedback range value to it (min: 0; max: 70) value to it, as well as the delay bypass.  For quick back and forth changes, I prefer to use the expression pedal personally, otherwise you'll wear out the button pretty fast! 

[xuoham]

Thanks, yes i thought of this of course,
but it doesn't work for what i'm doing.

 

Stackable snapshots, yes, but only 4 of them, doesn't work for me.

 

Thanks for your help anyway.

 

So i think i'm either gonna drive it with another controller (so i can have 2 footswitches with the same midi CC# but different values) or just sell it.

Doesn't do it for me, alas.