Axemadman74 Posted December 7, 2025 Share Posted December 7, 2025 I'm not gonna lie. The jury is out on the Stadium XL. I've been a Helix user for 8 years and I fully understand that this is early days for the Stadium but I'm going to continue using the OG Helix until simple things like the unacceptable delays between changing patches is fixed. Yes there was a slight delay on the OG but it was workable. The Stadium is simple not gig ready yet. I've also noticed a few other bugs but I'll report these separately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdennis Posted December 7, 2025 Share Posted December 7, 2025 On 12/7/2025 at 6:38 AM, Axemadman74 said: I'm not gonna lie. The jury is out on the Stadium XL. I've been a Helix user for 8 years and I fully understand that this is early days for the Stadium but I'm going to continue using the OG Helix until simple things like the unacceptable delays between changing patches is fixed. Yes there was a slight delay on the OG but it was workable. The Stadium is simple not gig ready yet. I've also noticed a few other bugs but I'll report these separately. Have you set up presets with trails on for an FX block that is enabled during the transition to the next preset and still have this latency issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axemadman74 Posted December 7, 2025 Author Share Posted December 7, 2025 Yeah. I have trails on the delay. There's a very audible 1 second delay. The patches themselves are very simple Dist - Amp - Cab - Compression - Delay and Volume pedal. I would have thought due to the increase in DSP the switch time would be quicker or at least similar. I would have never guessed it would be a second. Other issues I'm having is I have a patch with a Simple Pitch up and octave. Mix 100%. Sometimes when I turn on this patch the volume drops and no pitch is audible. If it switch to another patch and go back it works fine. I know these are all teething issues and will hopefully be sorted. I just feel it's not quite ready for being my main board. I've used the Stadium XL this past 2 nights and I just don't have confidence in it yet. It didn't feel polished or professional and it did affect my show. \m/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdennis Posted December 8, 2025 Share Posted December 8, 2025 On 12/7/2025 at 8:42 AM, Axemadman74 said: Yeah. I have trails on the delay. There's a very audible 1 second delay. The patches themselves are very simple Dist - Amp - Cab - Compression - Delay and Volume pedal. I would have thought due to the increase in DSP the switch time would be quicker or at least similar. I would have never guessed it would be a second. Other issues I'm having is I have a patch with a Simple Pitch up and octave. Mix 100%. Sometimes when I turn on this patch the volume drops and no pitch is audible. If it switch to another patch and go back it works fine. I know these are all teething issues and will hopefully be sorted. I just feel it's not quite ready for being my main board. I've used the Stadium XL this past 2 nights and I just don't have confidence in it yet. It didn't feel polished or professional and it did affect my show. \m/ First: Any issue you discover can be sent to the support team, which we all highly recommend since this forum isn't actively monitored. It does help us all when you and others send these issue requests in to them. Second: I can understand. Line 6 have been extremely transparent in that the Stadium was released early knowing it is not complete due to the voluminous demand when they asked the Line 6 users if they wanted it now or after everything was ready for prime time, so to speak. The majority said they wanted it now and will await the firmware upgrades as they roll out just so they can have it now. This was not quite the same as the Helix Floor. though similar in that Line 6 engineers addressed all the issues as they were reported in a very timely fashion. Now they have set a time line for the 1.1 (day of launch), 1.2 (coming by year end hopefully), and 1.3 (by or right around NAMM). Here is a link to their Stadium info https://line6.com/support/page/kb/effects-controllers/helix_130/ And here is the first line (its clickable) in the above link which is referencing the reported issues to date, what they have or are doing, and what to be prepared for (note the "this article will be updated periodically" - Line 6 means it and will update just like they did for the Helix when it came out 15 years ago). I really want to see Showcase and then the model capture feature when it arrives. jpd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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