Showcase Features and hardware request

[edmiddlebrooks]

Helix Stadium “Showcase” Feature Requests for Worship / Church Production Use

Line 6 has a major opportunity with the new Helix Stadium “Showcase” feature, especially in the worship/church market.

A large number of Helix Floor units are already being used in churches today. At the same time, churches commonly run click tracks, guide cues, loops, and multitrack stems during services. Today, that usually requires a separate iPad running Loop Community Prime, Multitracks.com Playback, or a laptop running Ableton Live. In many cases, Ableton is being used to overcomplicate something that apps like Prime and Playback have already simplified.

Showcase could become the integrated solution that allows Helix Stadium to replace a separate playback device while also automating guitar tones, MIDI, cues, and song flow from one centralized system.

Here are the key feature requests that would make Showcase a serious production-ready option for worship teams:

1. Import and Manage Worship Stems

Churches often purchase and download individual stems from services like Multitracks.com and LoopCommunity.com. Showcase should make it easy to load and manage those stems inside a song.

At minimum, it should support common worship-track needs such as:

• Click track
• Guide/cue track
• Drums
• Bass
• Keys
• Synths/pads
• Electric guitars
• Acoustic guitars
• Background vocals
• Loops/effects

This would allow churches to move away from a separate iPad or laptop-based playback system and use Helix Stadium as the primary live performance hub.

2. Crossfade Between Songs

Showcase should support crossfading between songs, both with and without beat matching.

In worship environments, transitions matter. Sometimes a service needs a smooth ambient pad-style transition between songs. Other times the next song needs to start in tempo. Having flexible crossfade options would make Showcase much more useful for live worship sets.

Requested options:

• Crossfade between songs
• Crossfade without beat matching
• Crossfade with beat matching
• Adjustable crossfade time
• Option to start the next song immediately, on measure, or after a defined transition point

3. Section Markers with Audible Guide Cues

Showcase should allow songs to be divided into named sections, such as:

• Intro
• Verse
• Pre-Chorus
• Chorus
• Bridge
• Build
• Breakdown
• Tag
• End

Those section markers should automatically generate or trigger guide cues heard only in the band’s in-ear monitors.

For example, the guide voice could call out:

“Verse”
“Build it up”
“Chorus”
“Bridge”
“End”

This would keep the band together without requiring a separate guide track workflow.

4. Live Section Re-Arrangement from Footswitches

One of the most important needs in worship is the ability to respond live. Songs are not always played in a fixed linear arrangement. A worship leader may repeat a chorus, jump to a bridge, extend a build, tag an ending, or go back to a verse.

Showcase should allow song sections to be triggered live using footswitches.

For example:

• Repeat current section
• Jump to chorus
• Jump to bridge
• Go to ending
• Loop current section
• Exit loop at the next section boundary
• Jump to next section
• Go back to previous section

When a section is triggered, the guide cue should automatically call out the upcoming section so the entire band stays together through IEMs.

This would make Showcase feel like a true live worship tool instead of just a linear backing-track player.

5. Hardware Expansion for Individual Stem Outputs

Line 6 should consider manufacturing a dedicated audio output expansion interface similar in purpose to a TrackRig.

This could use the Nexus connection or another Stadium expansion method to provide eight or more balanced outputs. The goal would be to route individual stems to individual channels on the front-of-house mixing console.

For example:

• Output 1: Click
• Output 2: Guide
• Output 3: Drums
• Output 4: Bass
• Output 5: Keys
• Output 6: Synths/Pads
• Output 7: Guitars
• Output 8: Background Vocals / Loops

This would give the sound engineer real control over individual stems at the mixing board instead of receiving only a stereo track mix.

For churches, this is a major production need. If Showcase is going to replace Prime, Playback, or Ableton in real-world worship environments, flexible multi-output routing is essential.

6. Dedicated Line 6 Showcase MIDI Controller / Foot Controller

Line 6 should manufacture a dedicated MIDI controller designed specifically for controlling Showcase.

This controller could connect directly to Helix Stadium and function as a dedicated Showcase control surface. When Showcase is not being used, it could also operate as a general switch expansion unit for Helix Stadium.

Ideally, this controller would include:

• Multiple footswitches
• Color LED rings
• Scribble strips
• Song section labels
• Transport controls
• Previous / next song controls
• Section jump controls
• Loop / repeat section controls
• MIDI assignability

There is a real gap in the market here. Nothing currently exists that perfectly serves as a dedicated worship-track section controller with scribble strips, color rings, and deep integration with a guitar processor/playback system.

A Line 6-built controller would make Showcase significantly more practical for live performance and would be especially valuable for churches.

7. Link Multiple Helix Stadium Units Together

Many worship bands have more than one guitarist or multiple players using Helix units. Showcase should eventually allow multiple Helix Stadium units to be linked together, with one unit assigned as the master.

The master Stadium unit would run Showcase, while slave Stadium units would follow along.

This could allow centralized automation across the whole band.

For example:

• Master unit runs the song and tracks
• Slave units follow song position
• Preset changes happen automatically across multiple units
• Snapshot changes happen at the correct song sections
• Parameter changes can be recorded in real time
• Automation can be played back across the entire band

This would allow a worship team to automate guitar tones, effects, snapshots, and other parameters across multiple Helix Stadium units as part of one synchronized live performance system.

8. Real-Time Parameter Automation Recording

Showcase should allow master and slave Helix Stadium units to record parameter changes in real time during playback.

For example, during rehearsal, a guitarist could manually change snapshots, toggle effects, adjust delay mix, increase reverb, or change other parameters while the song plays. Showcase would record those changes as automation events tied to the song timeline.

On future playbacks, those changes would happen automatically.

This would be extremely powerful for worship teams because it would allow them to build song-specific automation naturally during rehearsal instead of programming every event manually.

Overall Vision

The big opportunity is this:

Helix Stadium Showcase could become the center of a modern worship rig.

Instead of churches needing:

• Helix for guitar tones
• iPad for Prime or Playback
• Laptop for Ableton
• Audio interface for stems
• MIDI controller for playback
• Separate automation system

Line 6 could bring all of that into one integrated ecosystem.

Helix Stadium already has the potential to be more than a guitar processor. With the right Showcase features, it could become a full live worship production hub for tracks, cues, section control, MIDI, preset automation, and multi-unit synchronization.

That would be a major breakthrough for churches, worship leaders, guitarists, music directors, and production teams.

[silverhead]

This is a comprehensive set of new feature requests. The official way to submit such requests is here:

https://line6.com/company/contact/productfeedback/

 

What I don’t understand is why you request these features in the context of so-called ‘worship’ music. Would they not be helpful in any other context? Perhaps I am a member of a Satanic Worship, or Death Metal, cult. I could use those features too. Why the exclusive approach? A cult is a cult, under any name.

[dandesy]

Well said!

[bbehrens]

On 7/8/2026 at 8:34 PM, silverhead said:

What I don’t understand is why you request these features in the context of so-called ‘worship’ music. Would they not be helpful in any other context? Perhaps I am a member of a Satanic Worship, or Death Metal, cult. I could use those features too. Why the exclusive approach? A cult is a cult, under any name.

 

Well... Rock On Dude! :-)

[rawkbob]

Fixation with one thing narrows the mind, hence the thinking that "worship" is special. It's not, it's just too much reverb on what everyone else does. None of this is special for churches or worship.