Helix 3.2 when?

[James Freeman]

Oh hell no. I’m one of the don’t break my presets people, and I make all my own presets from scratch. But once I’ve done that, and automated all the switching inside presets for playing songs live using snapshots, I sure don’t want to have to re-do everything when there’s a FW update.

Traditionally Line 6 does not break old preset compatibility and I'm sure they will not with 3.2 even if things are moved and reorganized, aside from that, everything remains pure speculation.

 

[GTR37]

I think it’s safe to say that besides the hints at what Metallurgy may bring to the update in the way of new cabs and amp models ,we have no idea what Line6 is doing at this point

 

[SwirlyMaple]

They still need to make sure all those out there (non forum people…) doesnt get their precious stock cab presets ruined. Its doable, but they’ll probably need to call support if the cabs gets placed in another folder.

*laughs heartily while slowly moving in front of his Helix to conceal all the stock cabs in his presets*

 

[Stone]

Are we there yet? are we there yet ?

 

[the-trooper]

Are we there yet? are we there yet ?

@Digital Igloo Can we get 3.2 pushed back one day when someone here asks "are we there yet", the same way when someone talks about superior knobs on that other forum.

 

[James Freeman]

I for once am very interested to hear how the new presets will sound with the new cabs, if they are redone of course.

I wonder if Global Cab/IR has been considered as an opinion, that would be super useful for live venues or when you don't have time to edit all your presets one by one, similar to Global EQ which can be a quick life saver.

I also wonder if there is cool new features, Line 6 is known to innovate and drop things like Command Center out of the blue.

 

[the-trooper]

I also wonder if there is cool new features, Line 6 is known to innovate and drop things like Command Center out of the blue.

?!?!?

 

[HotRats]

I for once am very interested to hear how the new presets will sound with the new cabs, if they are redone of course.

I wonder if Global Cab/IR has been considered as an opinion, that would be super useful for live venues or when you don't have time to edit all your presets one by one, similar to Global EQ which can be a quick life saver.

I also wonder if there is cool new features, Line 6 is known to innovate and drop things like Command Center out of the blue.

A global IR is somenthing I'm waiting for since I've bought the Helix.
Another innovation that would be useful for live users is an IR block with routing possibilities or an IR tab in the output block or whatever solution that let us use both a cab and an IR without scarifying a split path.

 

[James Freeman]

A global IR is somenthing I'm waiting for since I've bought the Helix.
Another innovation that would be useful for live users is an IR block with routing possibilities or an IR tab in the output block or whatever solution that let use somenthing use both a cab and an IR without scarifying a split path.

Global IR+EQ is literally the equivalent of micing and eqing a good cab to perfection on the venue, without changing anything in the main rig.
Modeler or real, that's every soundmans wet dream if it can be done quickly and efficiently.
Or use it like you would a real setup, where you have just one favorite cab and use everything through it.
etc.

The point is to not edit presets and be able to instantly change or bypass the IR on all presets.
Super useful feature no modeler does yet, afaik.

 

[Fireproof]

I for once am very interested to hear how the new presets will sound with the new cabs, if they are redone of course.

I wonder if Global Cab/IR has been considered as an opinion, that would be super useful for live venues or when you don't have time to edit all your presets one by one, similar to Global EQ which can be a quick life saver.

I also wonder if there is cool new features, Line 6 is known to innovate and drop things like Command Center out of the blue.

Imagine the outrage if 3.2 drops and there isn’t anything new with the cabs…

 

[HotRats]

Global IR+EQ is literally the equivalent of micing and eqing a good cab to perfection on the venue, without changing anything in the main rig.
Modeler or real, that's every soundmans wet dream if it can be done quickly and efficiently.
Or use it like you would a real setup, where you have just one favorite cab and use everything through it.
etc.

The point is to not edit presets and be able to instantly change or bypass the IR on all presets.
Super useful feature no modeler does yet, afaik.

Yeah I know, that's why I didn't like when they changed how Irs are stored in the presets. I would have loved to be able to chose between the old and the current method.
With the old method (pointing to a specific location) was easy to change all IRs by simply overwriting the IR location with the desired IR. Not a very practical solution but it worked.

 

[Iron1]

Had to download an update for my iMac yesterday and when it was done it gave me a warning that the current Line 6 and Roland software would not be compatible with the next update... then an hour later got a message saying to download the next update...

 

[Jarick]

Global IR+EQ is literally the equivalent of micing and eqing a good cab to perfection on the venue, without changing anything in the main rig.
Modeler or real, that's every soundmans wet dream if it can be done quickly and efficiently.
Or use it like you would a real setup, where you have just one favorite cab and use everything through it.
etc.

The point is to not edit presets and be able to instantly change or bypass the IR on all presets.
Super useful feature no modeler does yet, afaik.

Good call.

Kemper I think my get close if you lock the cab section, but it's been a while since I used it.

Global IR/EQ would be sweet.

 

[HotRats]

I believe that Axe FX III has global blocks, blocks that you can change across multiple presets. No idea idea if that includes cab blocks.

 

[GTR37]

I would expect based on DI reply
About couple of weeks being way optimistic and that they have a target date but have never successfully hit that
The window you may be looking at is 4-6 weeks

 

[Digital Igloo]

I would expect based on DI reply
About couple of weeks being way optimistic and that they have a target date but have never successfully hit that
The window you may be looking at is 4-6 weeks

I'm almost always on vacation when something of note drops (purely coincidental/bad luck... or IS IT?) and I have vacation coming up. So although none of us know exactly when 3.20 will be released, my pessimism tells me it'll be during one particular two week span.

 

[the swede]

I'm almost always on vacation when something of note drops (purely coincidental/bad luck... or IS IT?) and I have vacation coming up. So although none of us know exactly when 3.20 will be released, my pessimism tells me it'll be during one particular two week span.

Yeah!!!! This is the closest we get to actually knowing the update is “coming up”.

It is evidence. Because it’s true… you’re always freaking away on vacation when something happens.

One thing that is boring though is that Frank doesn’t do the airport/terminal clues anymore… That was fun times…

 

[Stone]

 

[James Freeman]

Going back to discussing presets and cabs.

I am very interested to hear the new Factory presets if they are refreshed with new cabs for 3.2.
Also, I want to see non-lazy and thorough reviews on youtube of 3.2 without shilling their own affiliations or products, I like Cordy and Sterlacci the most because they know how to operate the modeler thoroughly, don't have an agenda and are always honest.

Heck, I think Line 6 should make high quality thorough firmware release videos themselves instead of paying some geartuber who could hardly give a fuck and uses the opportunity to shill his own shit.
Official firmware release videos on youtube will be the biggest spread of good advertisement, that way Line 6 can officially 'bump' the awareness of what the Helix can do with every new firmware, and FFS don't leave that job for people like Ola, Jon or EytschPi42 who could hardly give a toss.

 

[Lysander]

Also, I want to see non-lazy and thorough reviews on youtube of 3.2 without shilling their own affiliations or products, I like Cordy and Sterlacci the most because they know how to operate the modeler thoroughly, don't have an agenda and are always honest.

Heck, I think Line 6 should make high quality thorough firmware release videos themselves instead of paying some geartuber who could hardly give a f**k and uses the opportunity to shill his own s**t.

I'm kinda miffed about the poor reception among reviewers that the Metallurgy suite got. I can count the videos with one hand, and most of them were lazy AF anyway (i'm looking at you, Ola!).

Tried the plugins myself later on, and i found them to be pretty good.