Helix Talk

[BahamaDada]

Am I hearing disabled?

I read some about the pitch stuff in the Helix. The effects to downtune a signal a half or full step. Every source I read says "Yeah, you have to take Poly Capo, Simple Pitch won't do polyphonics". I tried -1 on SImple Pitch and I am hearing no artifacts and basically no "weird stuff". I'm pretty sure a regular, "correctly tuned" guitar would fare better, but in a mix? I can't spot differences. Tell me: Am I disabled? Is my hearing starting to fall apart?

 

[dronerstone]

Am I hearing disabled?

I read some about the pitch stuff in the Helix. The effects to downtune a signal a half or full step. Every source I read says "Yeah, you have to take Poly Capo, Simple Pitch won't do polyphonics". I tried -1 on SImple Pitch and I am hearing no artifacts and basically no "weird stuff". I'm pretty sure a regular, "correctly tuned" guitar would fare better, but in a mix? I can't spot differences. Tell me: Am I disabled? Is my hearing starting to fall apart?

Short answer: yes.

 

[burningyen]

Simple Pitch works great for single-note stuff and for very consonant intervals like 4ths, 5ths, and octaves. You start to get warble otherwise:

 

[JiveTurkey]

Basically ≠ Yes

 

[ragingplatypi]

Am I hearing disabled?

I read some about the pitch stuff in the Helix. The effects to downtune a signal a half or full step. Every source I read says "Yeah, you have to take Poly Capo, Simple Pitch won't do polyphonics". I tried -1 on SImple Pitch and I am hearing no artifacts and basically no "weird stuff". I'm pretty sure a regular, "correctly tuned" guitar would fare better, but in a mix? I can't spot differences. Tell me: Am I disabled? Is my hearing starting to fall apart?

Years ago I used an EHX octave multiplexer for some polyphonic stuff and it worked well enough to be musical, but definitely not as clean as a new polyphonic shifter. The nice thing about the older octave effects is the lack of latency, which feels better. However if you record yourself with the simple and the polyphonic and listen back your opinion might change.

 

[Orvillain]

Just opened an old project after a while of not opening it. Helix Native is on a few tracks doing weird glitchy stuff. Except the texture is totally different now. I have no idea why. I'm annoyed.

 

[molul]

Just opened an old project after a while of not opening it. Helix Native is on a few tracks doing weird glitchy stuff. Except the texture is totally different now. I have no idea why. I'm annoyed.

I haven't had that problem with Helix native yet, but I've had it with Arturia vst synths, and yeah, it's annoying.

What I ended up doing is that everytime I'm closing a session, I save all the new or modified presets, both in the plugin's library and as files. That way I've been able to resurrect a few sessions in the last year.

That, and doing double backups (hard drive and NAS) of everything done at the end of the day.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I haven't had that problem with Helix native yet, but I've had it with Arturia vst synths, and yeah, it's annoying.

Never had that with anything since almost decades (been an issue in earlier versions of Logic and some plugins). I would simply not use any plugin which would not be recalled properly.

 

[Perrymusica]

I share for whoever it helps, the overdrive setting to make it sound similar to JHS Angrie Charly in Helix

 

[Vic Winters]

Line 6 is putting out a lot of Helix videos recently. Creating some buzz for the 10 year anniversary?

 

[Digital Igloo]

Line 6 is putting out a lot of Helix videos recently. Creating some buzz for the 10 year anniversary?

That's the hope.

 

[Vic Winters]

That's the hope.

Will there be a 10 year anniversary edition?

 

[bucephalus]

Will there be a 10 year anniversary edition?

And timbuck3 wants to know if it will be 299.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

And timbuck3 wants to know if it will be 2.99.

FIFY

 

[GTR37]

Will there be a 10 year anniversary edition?

I feel like there will be something
Line6 did not announce any new products at Namm
Nor their usual busy March/ April time slot
They must have something HX related soon

 

[dronerstone]

I feel like there will be something
Line6 did not announce any new products at Namm
Nor their usual busy March/ April time slot
They must have something HX related soon

I don't think we'll see a successor this year, but I'm very much crossing my fingers for a (bigger than the last few times) 10th anniversary firmware update, and maybe more limited colorways.

It's likely they have something up their sleeves.

Also, they seem quite busy atm, so whatever it is, I it's gonna be a nice surprise.

How about a Peavey Decade model, for instance? The only chance is coming closer, so I hope it's already in the works.