Did you pre-order the Helix Stadium?

[GTR37]

But why would line 6 even release it to distributors before they put the 1.1 or 1.200 wouldn’t they do that all first before they even gave them to the distributors to distribute??

No , DI has said that 1.1 will be available to download for users day 1 to get anyway
The problem here is that they expected a couple of weeks to put the final bow on the firmware upload now if units ship that window gets cut to 3 days vs 10
That’s a big difference

 

[Whizzinby]

What does 1.1 have that isn’t on 1.0? Is it like a bunch of critical bug fixes, or new features?

 

[mikah912]

What does 1.1 have that isn’t on 1.0? Is it like a bunch of critical bug fixes, or new features?

According to DI:

"Because regression testing, distribution, integration, and validation takes months, 1.0 will clearly be out of date by the time Helix Stadium XL units find their way into users' hands. Therefore, 1.1 firmware will be available on day one; it adds a ton of missing features, bug fixes, sonic improvements, and DSP optimization. We cannot recommend strongly enough that everyone update to 1.1 right after opening the box and powering up."

 

[AlbertA]

No , DI has said that 1.1 will be available to download for users day 1 to get anyway

Right and "Day 1" was supposed to be later this month from what we can gather - and there can be more to it than just the firmware binary (as @Digital Igloo alluded to, manuals, accompanying videos but there can be more too like cloud side, website side stuff.

The products I work on, cloud team was to prepare scaling to support hundreds of thousands (to millions) of products being onboarded, registered and downloading OTAs.
The one we just launched, cloud side barely made it in time for street date.

 

[ccc118]

But why would line 6 even release it to distributors before they put the 1.1 or 1.200 wouldn’t they do that all first before they even gave them to the distributors to distribute??

They could have arrived from overseas faster than expected. All we know is that MF/GC created a bunch of shipping labels. No one knows when they'll be actually sending them out. We'll probably find out by the end of tomorrow or Tuesday. If they haven't gone out by then, I would expect to wait a bit. I don't know why they would be charging everyone ahead of time though.

 

[PBGas]

Looking forward to hearing when people get theirs!

 

[deadpool_25]

Ended up canceling my preorder. I’ll probably wait at least until both Stadium and the next gen Fractal are available and then decide.

 

[Gary_W]

But why would line 6 even release it to distributors before they put the 1.1 or 1.200 wouldn’t they do that all first before they even gave them to the distributors to distribute??

If they’d waited for 1.1 to be ready, this would hold up production as they’d have to load that in factory. It then takes ages to get them on the boat and to their final destinations.

This was a ‘no harm done’ way of getting the physical hardware to distributors (and to us) well before the Fall deadline and then the firmware is ready for us to update to 1.1 at home.

In the U.K., although I’ve ordered from Andertons (one of the bigger mail order shops here) they are *not* shipping it - it’s being shipped directly from Yamaha. I am guessing this was a way of 100% controlling when they ship to ensure 1.1 is ready. It’s looking like in the USA they’ve trusted their distributors to hold them until 1.1 is ready rather than shipping direct from Yamaha like they’re doing here. Possibly regretting that now as someone out of their control had different plans I guess

 

[mikah912]

Ended up canceling my preorder. I’ll probably wait at least until both Stadium and the next gen Fractal are available and then decide.

No hope for what shape Quad Cortex is in by then?

 

[deadpool_25]

No hope for what shape Quad Cortex is in by then?

I almost said “until the next generation of Fractal and QC” but I decided to be realistic. I only have so many years left.

 

[timbuck3]

Ended up canceling my preorder. I’ll probably wait at least until both Stadium and the next gen Fractal are available and then decide.

I may as well for that same reason…you won’t get flamed for it but I will.. lol

 

[Melodioso]

Ended up canceling my preorder. I’ll probably wait at least until both Stadium and the next gen Fractal are available and then decide.

Next gen Fractal may be one year from now. I had the same thought, quickly followed by another thought ("Fuck it!").

 

[laxu]

I may as well for that same reason…you won’t get flamed for it but I will.. lol

 

[timbuck3]

Next gen Fractal may be one year from now. I had the same thought, quickly followed by another thought ("Fuck it!").

Who cares if it’s a year from now but my guess is it’s gonna be six months from now summertime because Cliff knows there’s a lot of fans out there. That’ll just buy it so I’m one hand. He’s not in a hurry, but on the other hand, announcing little tidbits about what’s comingwill make a lot of people pause on their stadium purchase which is a good thing for cliff as well.

 

[timbuck3]

Of course, plenty of guys here I’ll just buy both. I mean I could, but I really don’t want to. I really only want one and I want one that’s gonna be superior so in terms of tones effects it’s gonna be fractal in terms of gui and screen ease it’s line 6
And quite honestly all you guys you guys have plenty of stuff to play for the next six months anyways that you own and I really don’t foresee the stadium or stadium XL taking off like gangbusters within six months of release. In fact this regular stadium is gonna be out till next yearso I understand a lot of people are just gonna wait because it’s not like it’s gonna be sold out in six months to a year every store will have plenty of them and those 15% coupons come around three times a year anyways.

 

[bucephalus]

Each post feels like another little step towards cancelling the order.

 

[Lysander]

I love you guys, don't get me wrong, but some of you need professional help Do you buy gear because of what it does, or because it checks more items than the competition?

on second thought, don't answer that...

 

[AlbertA]

Each post feels like another little step towards cancelling the order.

Yes, his preorder/order is back to #DogCon 3

 

[Mongillo19]

I love you guys, don't get me wrong, but some of you need professional help Do you buy gear because of what it does, or because it checks more items than the competition?

on second thought, don't answer that...

It's even worse than that. He's checking boxes of future competition

 

[timbuck3]

I love you guys, don't get me wrong, but some of you need professional help Do you buy gear because of what it does, or because it checks more items than the competition?

on second thought, don't answer that...

I guess both if it checks more items to what I may like. At this point, the line 6 is promising a lot but it’s yet to be seen now that they won’t cause they have a good track record, but maybe some people are just on the fence until they implement a lot more items and a lot more models in the new agora and even effect models if those ever will come.
Line 6 is not even gone into deep detail about if the loop or how advanced it is or what it entails so there’s still a lot of and openness to what it actually will do and I know that will come with software upgrades, but like I said, a lot of people would rather waitThey’ll be in stock everywhere in six months anyways.