Helix Talk

TheTrueZoltan! said:
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I know it’s a cactuar. Close enough.
 
Nobody needs to give a crap but I will be so disappointed if it's a nothing burger. Got a helix in 2015 so I am so ready for something worth buying that isn't a smaller unit, combo amp with some helix things in it or a special color limited version of the Helix. My wallet won't be disappointed though.
 
I'm just spit-balling here - and even allowing for the fact that its a L6 celebration- as people are talking, surely there will have to be some mention of an upcoming FW ... be it "moderate" 3.9 or "more major" 4.0 (?)

But then again ^this^ almost certainly isn't going to happen :(
 
BenIfin said:
Did D.I. say this somewhere about this event ? Apologies if I missed it ......
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GTR37 said:
Saying it’s beer and wings
And a NAMM party which may be true , but in the past all keynotes From DI ended with what is coming in the next updates
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No wings, sadly. Best wings I've ever had in my life are the salt and pepper wings from here.

Mentioned this before, but we're not announcing any new Helix/HX firmware at the 10th Anniversary Party. Too soon, I'm afraid—the timing just didn't work out. :cry:
Mikael Dez said:
I also don’t see the appeal in watching a livestream of a bunch of dudes just circlejerking the Helix without at least a tease for the future lol
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molul said:
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Digital Igloo

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GTR37 said:
Saying it’s beer and wings
And a NAMM party which may be true , but in the past all keynotes From DI ended with what is coming in the next updates
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No wings, sadly. Best wings I've ever had in my life are the salt and pepper wings from here.

Mentioned this before, but we're not announcing any new Helix/HX firmware at the 10th Anniversary Party. Too soon, I'm afraid—the timing just didn't work out. :cry:
Mikael Dez said:
I also don’t see the appeal in watching a livestream of a bunch of dudes just circlejerking the Helix without at least a tease for the future lol
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Oh well ..... so we really are at the 1 x FW update per year for Helix ..... no point tuning :(
 
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What is difficult to "get" though is that D.I has been saying for quite a while that they have been flat out working on "stuff" and this, amongst other things, has impacted on Helix FW development.

This other "stuff" must be very "involved" / "significant" / "complex" ?????
 
Who knows? Maybe they announce something Helix-related that isn't either firmware out hardware that we can't figure out now, but the right mindset now is not to expect anything big, or anything at all.
 
BenIfin said:
What is difficult to "get" though is that D.I has been saying for quite a while that they have been flat out working on "stuff" and this, amongst other things, has impacted on Helix FW development.

This other "stuff" must be very "involved" / "significant" / "complex" ?????
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They could be working on products that won't be released in the next few years or that won't ever be released. At some point they need to focus on the next generation in order to release a worthy and polished thing we would want to buy.

Helix was released in 2015, and I doubt they started working on it in 2014. I'd give it at least 4-5 years since the first prototype.
 
molul said:
Helix was released in 2015, and I doubt they started working on it in 2014. I'd give it at least 4-5 years since the first prototype.
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Helix was a weird one. The first discussions took place way back in 2008, two years before I joined. It was unceremoniously ditched when the economy took a dump. Design work ramped back up in early 2011. Active hardware development began in late 2011, for a planned release in the summer of 2014. The touchscreen and mobile editing were ditched in favor of cap switches and desktop editing around 2013, much to my chagrin. This and a whole lot of other drama resulted in pushing back the launch to June 11, 2015.

Products has designs that, if ever released, may not see the light of day for a decade or more. That doesn't mean we're slow; we just have way more ideas than we can actively develop. I guess that's better than Engineering tapping their feet, going "Okay, c'mon. What are we making next, guys?!"
 
Lysander said:
molul said:
They could be working on products that won't be released in the next few years or that won't ever be released. At some point they need to focus on the next generation in order to release a worthy and polished thing we would want to buy.

Helix was released in 2015, and I doubt they started working on it in 2014. I'd give it at least 4-5 years since the first prototype.
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They are talking about it actually at TOP
Eric says they have been listening testing for the past 9 months against the other products
He said they are continuously impressed by Fractal so if that is the benchmark of tones they are comparing to it should be cool when it arrives
 
GTR37 said:
They are talking about it actually at TOP
Eric says they have been listening testing for the past 9 months against the other products
He said they are continuously impressed by Fractal so if that is the benchmark of tones they are comparing to it should be cool when it arrives
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I've always been a fan of Cliff, M@, Cooper, and the rest of Fractal, but the biggest surprise was that a different to-remain-unnamed box performed so poorly across so many blind tests and so many ears that it flabbergasts me when someone claims it's "more accurate" to the real amps than Helix is.
 
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