Line 6 Helix Stadium

[Lysander]

Yeeeeeah baby!

 

[spawnofthesith]

Cliff notes? (can't watch vid rn )

 

[sleewell]

playing something called a stadium in front of 30-50 ppl is going to be a hoot.

 

[2dor]

Cliff notes? (can't watch vid rn )

Too many to list.
zoom-in feature on amps for the skeumorphic view
new modelling tech
NAM-style neural profiling called Proxy
Stem separation for audio you can load up
Pretty powerful midi / lighting automation subsystem called "showcase"

 

[paisleywookiee]

Oh man. It looks awesome. Expression pedal-version? Yes please.

 

[molul]

This was historic. I was even overwhelmed at how many new features they're bringing with this new line.

Honestly, what's the point of getting a Quad Cortex once this is available?

And btw... This is just Helix 2 with a fancy alias.

 

[paisleywookiee]

What’s the point of a Kemper MkII, what’s the point of a QC.

Kemper: “but look at our charming clock radio display!”

 

[JiveTurkey]

What’s the point of a Kemper MkII, what’s the point of a QC.

 

[molul]

Does anyone have the footprint comparison picture?

 

[deathbyguitar]

And now we wait for the first sound clips to arrive.

EDIT: Just realized that no rack version is being offered at this time. Wonder what's that about. Granted, it seems like the new units probably have enough DSP and I/O but no rack? Really?

 

[mikah912]

Too many to list.
zoom-in feature on amps for the skeumorphic view
new modelling tech
NAM-style neural profiling called Proxy
Stem separation for audio you can load up
Pretty powerful midi / lighting automation subsystem called "showcase"

The Zoom thing - Focus View - is even better than that. You can drag over like an X/Y strip to specific tonalities (e.g. "Clean""Tight""Squishy") on the touchscreen. That's just brilliant.

 

[ChordInversion]

As I said in the Helix Talk thread, the Stadium makes the Tone Master Pro look like a Fisher-Price product by comparison. They're gonna have to either double down quickly, find a niche quickly, or pack it in.

 

[Whizzinby]

Couldn’t sprint here fast enough seeing the reveal.

Eric gets its. The touchscreen with the dedicated encoders directly underneath it is the perfected design. The QC approach with rotary FS encoders was cool, but since the encoders didn’t match to the onscreen elements you’d get erroneous parameter tweaks. Dedicated encoders underneath eliminates this, so you can use the touchscreen for what it’s get at, block placement, block movement, file scrolling, but gives you a fast and accurate, tactile tweaking experience.

Dudes nailed it. WOW.

 

[Lysander]

The pedal-less Stadium is pretty much the Helix device i've dreamed about for years now.

I'm placing my order the second this thing is available. Kudos, Line 6. Kudos

 

[Lysander]

Also, @Digital Igloo must have the impulse control of a Buddhist monk not to spill a single bean on this launch for so long

 

[holoholo]

@Digital Igloo

 

[Sascha Franck]

Does anyone have the footprint comparison picture?

 

[paisleywookiee]

I wonder how many beers line 6 had to have on hand, for when @Digital Igloo said “hold my beer”

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Ebay and Facebook is going to crash under the weight of helix units about to come on the secondhand market.

 

[JiveTurkey]

@Digital Igloo
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Missed you! Good to see you around \m/

I'll say this: Line 6 just showed how to work within launch limitations because they said Stadium is launching with just 16 amps and 6 bass amps and nobody cares. Just because they nailed every other aspect beyond belief and sketched out a detailed future that you know they'll deliver on.

Are they shipping with HX amps from the OG or just 16 new amps?