littlespaceman Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 New (returning) user of Helix stuff, and very pleased to see the Helix Stadium works seamlessly with my 5 pin WIDI dongle, to link with Stage Traxx 3 (which of course is now a bit defunct, with Showcase on the Stadium) Is anyone else using WIDI with the Stadium, and if so what are you controlling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdennis Posted May 28 Share Posted May 28 On 5/17/2026 at 2:36 PM, littlespaceman said: New (returning) user of Helix stuff, and very pleased to see the Helix Stadium works seamlessly with my 5 pin WIDI dongle, to link with Stage Traxx 3 (which of course is now a bit defunct, with Showcase on the Stadium) Is anyone else using WIDI with the Stadium, and if so what are you controlling? @littlespaceman I haven't had the chance to apply this yet. And not to hijack your thread ... I have just been reading about the WIDI dongles and checking to see which works well and which doesn't work well. Which dongle are you using? My goal is to use my iPad and OnSong with my Stadium XL. Thanks for any reply. jpd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlespaceman Posted May 28 Author Share Posted May 28 I have the Widiflex dongle - it's the 5 pin version, it's excellent, it takes power direct from the Stadium midi ports (which to be fair it also did with the Quad Cortex) so no external power needed. The tech support is brilliant with Wideflex too, the CEO of the company is very helpful if you get stuck trying to work out how to get it to work. I use it with Stage Traxx 3 and it works brilliantly; to be clear, I'm using Stage Traxx for lyrics only, now I'm using Showcase. I want to keep the backing tracks on board the Helix; it is possible to set ST 3 up to select the correct Helix Preset and Snapshot etc, but you have to type in longwinded midi commands in to the lyric text, so it's much easier to do it in Showcase, plus you have the advantage of having all your backing tracks on board your modeller. In my case, my wife does the singing, and she needs the lyrics, and manages the set list, song selection etc all from the iPad. For my part, all I have to do is set up both devices so that when she does select a song, everything happens automatically, as simply as possible. And the ultimate goal is that when she presses play on the iPad, the lyric prompt in Stage Traxx 3 is synched perfectly to the backing track playback in Showcase. So, as an example of how I have it set up, 1. I recall a Stadium preset and it sends a signal via WIDI from Helix to ST3 to recall the appropriate ST3 song on the iPad. 2. As I mentioned though, my wife will usually control the set list, song selection etc, so each ST3 song contains the MIDI command to recall the correct Stadium PRESET, so it's a 2 way process - whichever you select first (song on iPad, or Preset on Helix) loads the correlating Preset or Song on the other device. 3. The ST3 song ALSO contains the MIDI command to recall the correct Stadium SONG. 4. Pressing Play in ST3 will send MIDI command to Play the Stadium Song, so both start at the 'same' time. (You may have to trim the song start point in Stage Traxx, to get the timing absolutely spot on, as although both devices contain the same backing track, for some reason they can be half a second or so out of time with each other. This is easy to do in ST3, however, and tbh isn't that important, as there is NO audio coming from the iPad, it's purely to have the lyrics highlight at more or less the correct time in the song. 5. And of course the volume sliders or Mute switches are 'on' in ST 3 Hope that helps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpdennis Posted May 29 Share Posted May 29 On 5/28/2026 at 2:58 PM, littlespaceman said: Hope that helps... @littlespaceman Thanks. It does help as it is leading down my path with a few less rabbit holes. :-) The caveat is that i want to also control my mesa JP-2C with MIDI and the Helix with MIDI for the times I want to reproduce the in the mix breakout using multiple EQ for large outside venues and because I'm neurotic. (Oh yea) This may be a case of "having my cake and eating it too" moments. But I love the fun of only being limited by my own imagination. Now if the voices in my head would just settle down ;-) jpd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlespaceman Posted May 29 Author Share Posted May 29 On 5/29/2026 at 9:00 PM, jpdennis said: Now if the voices in my head would just settle down ;-) jpd Ha, i know the feeling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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