Line 6 Helix Stadium Pre-Launch Discussion

[ian_dissonance]

What would you like or expect sidechain to do?

Pitch on a pitch shifter, tremolo speed, chorus rate, filter frequency, effect on/off, effect mix, preferably all at the same time. And preferably with adjustable attack/release curves.

 

[Digital Igloo]

Pitch on a pitch shifter, tremolo speed, chorus rate, filter frequency, effect on/off, effect mix, preferably all at the same time. And preferably with adjustable attack/release curves.

Ah, some of those are tangential to sidechaining, but I'm totally with ya'.

 

[mikah912]

Pitch on a pitch shifter, tremolo speed, chorus rate, filter frequency, effect on/off, effect mix, preferably all at the same time. And preferably with adjustable attack/release curves.

Seems like envelope followers might be a more viable way to achieve some of these?

 

[ian_dissonance]

Seems like envelope followers might be a more viable way to achieve some of these?

Yeah, for sure, same concept through. The input dynamics changes the parameter.

 

[DanRad]

Nothing. I actually see the helix Stadium as a way to get people who never liked or gelled with the helix tones to be re-introduced to the helix, but I think that may not be the case so it was my misunderstanding sorry.

So you think they don't want to ALSO bring along people who have been rocking their Helixes for 10 years? They just want to dump that established user base under the bus?

That's insanity.

 

[EOengineer]

Really holding out for that effect that makes me sound like I know what I’m doing. My bass player said it’s called a tuner.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Really holding out for that effect that makes me sound like I know what I’m doing. My bass player said it’s called a tuner.

That's the first lesson I taught my son, when he wanted me to help build a little bass board.

"What's the most important pedal on a bass board?"

"Uh, compressor?"

"Close. Tuner."

 

[Sascha Franck]

Yes, but not at launch.

And as it hasn't been answered: Will input level be available as a modulator?

Edit: It'd be pretty similar to sidechain inputs but possibly more straight ahead. And as drum triggers can be used as modulators, a kinda logical conclusion would be that input level could serve the very same purposes.

 

[Digital Igloo]

And as it hasn't been answered: Will input level be available as a modulator?

Edit: It'd be pretty similar to sidechain inputs but possibly more straight ahead. And as drum triggers can be used as modulators, a kinda logical conclusion would be that input level could serve the very same purposes.

At launch, drum triggers effectively act as engage mechanisms, like a footswitch. So you can use them to recall presets/snapshots, start/stop a song, control the looper, etc. Nothing in Stadium pays attention to the trigger's signal level, other than whether it exceeds a user-specified threshold to engage the assigned function.

 

[Sascha Franck]

At launch, drum triggers effectively act as engage mechanisms, like a footswitch. So you can use them to recall presets/snapshots, start/stop a song, control the looper, etc. Nothing in Stadium pays attention to the trigger's signal level, other than whether it exceeds a user-specified threshold to engage the assigned function.

Ok, thanks.

 

[timbuck3]

One reason would be they've invested God knows how much to bring stadium to market. To only then go "oh well here's this new massive project/genuinely new product a year later" would be such a bizarre use of resources.

My theory was that I realize they put a lot of money and research and whatever into this new helix Stadium, but that’s gonna be considered the flagship now obviously but they’re probably phase out the old helix, and this will become the new helix, and then the next iteration will probably have a whole new namewhether that comes in a year or two years 10 years I don’t know, but that’s my guess they wanted to get this display the touchscreen in the gooey the GUI on this new unit called helix so that the next iteration can come along and this will be kind of like the HD 500 was when helix was released

 

[sashimi]

My theory was that I realize they put a lot of money and research and whatever into this new helix Stadium, but that’s gonna be considered the flagship now obviously but they’re probably phase out the old helix, and this will become the new helix, and then the next iteration will probably have a whole new namewhether that comes in a year or two years 10 years I don’t know, but that’s my guess they wanted to get this display the touchscreen in the gooey the GUI on this new unit called helix so that the next iteration can come along and this will be kind of like the HD 500 was when helix was released

Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify cancelling the preorder I guess

then the next iteration will probably have a whole new namewhether that comes in a year or two years 10 years

^this is the correct answer, if you want to wait another decade before buying a Helix

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

they wanted to get this display the touchscreen in the gooey

yes, that's precisely what they wanted

 

[JiveTurkey]

Some of y'all act like you haven't spent a decade at TGP with Timbuk and it shows

 

[Sleezy E]

Some of y'all act like you haven't spent a decade at TGP with Timbuk and it shows

just realized I joined there in 2015

 

[mbenigni]

Some of y'all act like you haven't spent a decade at TGP with Timbuk and it shows

Are you saying timbuk3 is just an interim TGF member between timbuk2 and the real flagship timbuk joining us next year?

 

[mbenigni]

just realized I joined there in 2015

Probably true for a lot of us. That’s when the Helix was announced, and THE Helix thread just about broke the internet.

 

[Fireproof]

just realized I joined there in 2015

Ha. I joined in 2010.

After the demise of Harmony Central.

 

[molul]

My theory was that I realize they put a lot of money and research and whatever into this new helix Stadium, but that’s gonna be considered the flagship now obviously but they’re probably phase out the old helix, and this will become the new helix, and then the next iteration will probably have a whole new namewhether that comes in a year or two years 10 years I don’t know, but that’s my guess they wanted to get this display the touchscreen in the gooey the GUI on this new unit called helix so that the next iteration can come along and this will be kind of like the HD 500 was when helix was released

I mean, Stadium hasn't even launched yet and you're thinking about when will the next product be released, when Stadium has arrived 10 years after OG Helix...

I'm curious about why you seem to be trying so hard to find a reason to cancel your preorder, tbh

 

[HotRats]

My theory was that I realize they put a lot of money and research and whatever into this new helix Stadium, but that’s gonna be considered the flagship now obviously but they’re probably phase out the old helix, and this will become the new helix, and then the next iteration will probably have a whole new namewhether that comes in a year or two years 10 years I don’t know, but that’s my guess they wanted to get this display the touchscreen in the gooey the GUI on this new unit called helix so that the next iteration can come along and this will be kind of like the HD 500 was when helix was released

Let's say you are right.....now what, what are you going to do with this information?