Line 6 Helix Stadium Pre-Launch Discussion

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

You'll get some lag tonight for sure. Tell us how you do.

 

[Fireproof]

So you were talking about switching from one preset to another. There’s some lag there it’s not instantaneous and it’s worse leg than the original helix.?

Yep. Go ahead and cancel that preorder now.

 

[ian_dissonance]

I'm not quite reconciling "Clearly-labeled snapshots of my own making with discreet displays are too confusing for me if I don't play them all the time" with "Tapping from preset to preset in a strictly one-way linear fashion with no labels on any effects and a small screen with undescriptive icons in a low-res layout view....now that's more like it!"

I went from Helix to GT1K as well, I can’t say I find the footswitching any more complicated. I tend to pick a scheme and stick with it across presets though. Delay are always x switch with x color, drives are always x switch and x color, etc. Even with the Floor and LT I was still using the color rings more than the display to know what I was doing. One thing the switch did was point out how much I didn’t need in Helix. I’ll definitely be interested in whatever “stompium” ends up being, though. At least as long as Line 6 finds their way to input dynamics controlled parameter modulation.

 

[mikah912]

I went from Helix to GT1K as well, I can’t say I find the footswitching any more complicated. I tend to pick a scheme and stick with it across presets though. Delay are always x switch with x color, drives are always x switch and x color, etc. Even with the Floor and LT I was still using the color rings more than the display to know what I was doing. One thing the switch did was point out how much I didn’t need in Helix. I’ll definitely be interested in whatever “stompium” ends up being, though. At least as long as Line 6 finds their way to input dynamics controlled parameter modulation.

I totally get that method! But the same color ring configuration is available on Helix, and you can switch between any of 8 snapshots which would give you more immediate access than 5 GT-1000 patches in a bank.

 

[AlbertA]

They are not implementing that same use half your DSP to do gapless switching this time DI has said that they are looking into other ways to do it not so taxing in the CPU so it is conceivable that OG Helix will have quicker switching on launch

Fender ToneMaster Pro best contribution to the field.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

You asked for it.

 

[Lysander]

Perhaps with occasional and abrupt interjections along the way by Orvillain.

Tech column by Jay!

 

[dean701]

Stadium feature request - very cool

 

[ian_dissonance]

I totally get that method! But the same color ring configuration is available on Helix, and you can switch between any of 8 snapshots which would give you more immediate access than 5 GT-1000 patches in a bank.

You can pretty much make the footswitches do anything on a per-preset basis. Most of my live stuff is presets on one and two and then everything else is assigned somewhere else. And the preset number is also the tap tempo so I never forget which one I’m on, lol.

 

[timbuck3]

Fender ToneMaster Pro best contribution to the field.

When I tried the tmp a few times the patch switching was very fast

 

[ian_dissonance]

When I tried the tmp a few times the patch switching was very fast

Isn’t your signal chain sort of limited to what template you load? Do they all switch the same?

 

[bucephalus]

He once (long ago on TOP) described a scenario where he walked into a hotub store in his swimsuit, hoping for a test drive, and in my mind's eye this always plays out as a Sasha Cohen skit.

For real?!

 

[bucephalus]

Omg. I’m going to now think Tim is an Americanized Borat.

Is nice

 

[molul]

I'm drunk enough to consider opening a poll to vote if people think if timbuck will keep the stadium preorder, but not drunk enough not to see that it might not be well received by moderators.

 

[bucephalus]

No chance

 

[EOengineer]

Spoken like a proper American.

Laughs in cheeseburger.

Full throughput latency

It sounds like it’s too early to say, but curious if you’ve noticed a reduction or increase in Helix’s latency for standalone usage with the updated platform.

IIIRC we’re somewhere between 1.5-3ms depending on configuration and the preset. I would be surprised if there was a reduction, and wonder if the increased complexity of the modeling perhaps adds to it at all.

 

[mbenigni]

For real?!

This is how I remember it, anyway. It’s possible he was just carrying his swimsuit, and was incredulous to find there were no changing rooms.

Tim, do you have anything to say for yourself?

(Those posts are probably still on TOP, actually. Just search “the” Helix thread for “hotub” LOL.)

 

[jmcecil]

At the risk of derailing a thread that has remained solidly locked on topic so far ... Can someone explain to me why all Youtube channels are Canadian?

 

[Dez]

I'm drunk enough to consider opening a poll to vote if people think if timbuck will keep the stadium preorder, but not drunk enough not to see that it might not be well received by moderators.

Been there

 

[sashimi]

I'm drunk enough to consider opening a poll to vote if people think if timbuck will keep the stadium preorder, but not drunk enough not to see that it might not be well received by moderators.

Drinking early on a Friday I see, doesn’t sound like a bad idea

And yeah if he doesn’t cancel the preorder he will 100% find some nitpicking reason to return it, I mean he’s already looking for them and he hasn’t even played it yet.