Make Built In Expression Pedal CONDITIONALLY Do Two Things

[VmusicV]

Hi,

  I want the builtin expression pedal on my Helix Floor to CONDITIONALLY do or change something.....  so when I go to my preset the exp pedal does "A", and if I press a switch it does "B" and no longer does "A".

 

Is there some way to accomplish this?

Thanks!
AJ

[theElevators]

On 3/30/2025 at 4:34 PM, VmusicV said:

Hi,

  I want the builtin expression pedal on my Helix Floor to CONDITIONALLY do or change something.....  so when I go to my preset the exp pedal does "A", and if I press a switch it does "B" and no longer does "A".

 

Is there some way to accomplish this?

Thanks!
AJ

Toe switch....  meaning click the pedal in?  Yes, you can bypass/un-bypass different things within a preset. 

 

I only know how to do this in HX Edit.

 

1. Add a block, for example distortion.

2. Right-click on the block, select "Bypass Assign", scroll down to "EXP Pedal Toe". 

3. Remove all other bypass assignments, such as "snapshot bypass"

4. Now, the block will only be bypassed/un-bypassed when you click the pedal in. 

 

End-result: when you click the pedal in, you are able to toggle the on-off state of a given block.

 

Save your blocks in a specific state.  If you assign multiple blocks similarly to how I described, you are able to toggle on/off multiple blocks.  You can turn one block on, turn another off.  Or turn on two blocks, while turning off a third block, and vice versa.

 

Helix toggles the bypass state, against what is saved in your preset.  If you want to have the toe switch toggle between distortion and wah, then turn one thing on, turn another thing off, both assigned to the same toe switch. 

 

I personally can't stand this toe switch, and instead use snapshots, where I mix "OUT" certain block that are not needed, and mix "IN" blocks that I want to control within a specific snapshot.  By mixing out, I mean, I set the "MIX" parameter value at 0, that mean whether or not the block is turned on or off, the sound remains unchanged.  Learn how to assign block parameters to snapshots, it's pretty useful: simply right-click on the parameter and assign to snapshots, you'll get brackets around the value, and you can save those values to be different within each snapshot.