Line 6 Helix Stadium Pre-Launch Discussion

[dk_ace]

That is probably my most important takeaway from yesterday. To be honest, I previously considered this feature to be more of a gimmick. Nice, but not particularly important to me personally. And now I was sitting there in front of the device, moving the cursor back and forth on the touchscreen... and I instantly understood how great it actually is. Especially when I think about recordings... ‘Hey, I need a sound here that 's kind of like...’ swipe, swipe, done!

Damn, I feel so hyped today, almost like a little kid waiting for Christmas. I can hardly wait for the day when I can finally order a Helix Stadium (non-XL, because I want to put it on my desk).

Thanks again @Digital Igloo for being such a nice and approachable guy.

I thought it was the coolest feature on the device, but that’s probably because I moved from helix to fm9 and love what all I can do with block channels. Being able to have multiple sounds dialed in per block that doesn’t have to be tied to a footswitch is huge. You could sort of do that with favorites but you end up with tons of favorites and I never took enough advantage of that as a result. Custom focus zones is gonna be an amazingly powerful feature.

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[FuzzyAce]

From all I remember, that's what the XY pad is pretty much made for, allowing you to map multiple parameters of whatever blocks to whatever controllers.

That would be a cool feature to assign a Focus path for a number of reasons.

 

[Sascha Franck]

That would be a cool feature to assign a Focus path for a number of reasons.

I don't understand what you mean with "Focus path".

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

This expression pedal would be perfect for Focus View / XY Zones.

Fulcrum – 901sound

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[mikah912]

That is probably my most important takeaway from yesterday. To be honest, I previously considered this feature to be more of a gimmick. Nice, but not particularly important to me personally. And now I was sitting there in front of the device, moving the cursor back and forth on the touchscreen... and I instantly understood how great it actually is. Especially when I think about recordings... ‘Hey, I need a sound here that 's kind of like...’ swipe, swipe, done!

Damn, I feel so hyped today! Almost like a little kid waiting for Christmas. I can hardly wait for the day when I can finally order a Helix Stadium (non-XL, because I want to put it on my desk).

Thanks again @Digital Igloo for being such a nice guy.

I'm getting that same cheapo stand DI linked to so my Stadium XL will live on my desk as well.

And it will be on the floor everywhere else.

 

[Sascha Franck]

This expression pedal would be perfect for Focus View / XY Zones.

I've seen those quite a while ago already. And I think they're possibly cool in a controlled environment, but very likely less so in the heat of a gig. I mean, just try standing and moving one foot in 4 directions seemlessly and controlled.
Having YTers never playing live praise the thing doesn't help much.

 

[bucephalus]

I'm getting that same cheapo stand DI linked to so my Stadium XL will live on my desk as well.

And it will be on the floor everywhere else.

Do you have that link handy?

 

[Mongillo19]

Do you have that link handy?

2nd this

 

[Dez]

Ask for forgiveness, not permission. Haha.

One of my life mottos lmao

 

[Rock Chalk]

This expression pedal would be perfect for Focus View / XY Zones.

Fulcrum – 901sound

901sound.de

Looks like a good start to a Hyperspace pedal.

 

[CorrosiveMatter]

2nd this

Third!

I had my friend with a 3d printer make me this, it works great for the desk for the FM9 or the Helix.

Line 6 Helix Stand by Jocket MakerWorld: Download Free 3D Models

A stand for a Line 6 Helix pedal.I recommend to use some self adhesive silicone rubber pads.

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[HotRats]

General question, maybe you don't know or it's already been asked... Can focus mode be mapped out say from one point to another and then assigned to an expression pedal?

I think that drawing a path in the XY plan and make the expression pedal follow it, will be a natural extension of focus mode, once it will be customizable.

 

[CorrosiveMatter]

All the sudden my FB Marketplace has 5-6 new Helixes for sale today.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

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[FuzzyAce]

I don't understand what you mean with "Focus path".

Being able to custom map out by dragging and writing a "path". Then assigning to an expression pedal.
Cued up in the vid although it doesn't claim to be able to do that:

 

[FuzzyAce]

Being able to custom map out by dragging and writing a "path". Then assigning to an expression pedal.
Cued up in the vid although it doesn't claim to be able to do that:

To reiterate, I think it should be fairly simple to do (it may already be a feature, I just haven't watched enough vids to know for sure).
Anyways, would be very cool, creatively and functionally.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Being able to custom map out by dragging and writing a "path". Then assigning to an expression pedal.
Cued up in the vid although it doesn't claim to be able to do that:

Yeah, that'd be cool.

I'm really curious about the XY pad thing in general.

 

[Orvillain]

I spent the last 4 hours putting together a song moodboard from a whole bunch of jams since July. Ended up with a 12 minute epic. Nice.

But to do it, I used a combination of the Nolly plugin and Amplitube 5. It is sometimes really nice to be able to just plug into a soundcard, capture the DI, and fuck around with effects and what not after the fact.

I do kinda miss the Quad Cortex, but tbh, I'm nearly 100% sure the Helix Stadium is going to absolutely wreck the QC's buttocks.

Once Proxy lands, capturing all the great tones from the NDSP plugins and anything I like from AT5 will also be dead sexy.

 

[banned]

This expression pedal would be perfect for Focus View / XY Zones.

Fulcrum – 901sound

901sound.de

That is so cool. Why didn't I think of that?

 

[mikah912]

Do you have that link handy?

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