Line 6 Helix

Bezzer

@mudslide73 I’m hoping my now habitual careful track management will carry over.

But honestly... who am I kidding? 

Grumpyrocker

Jetfire said:

I've had 2 PC's in 10 years, what y'all doing to them??

It seems OS upgrades and reinstalls are counted as new computers. I've had two PCs and a laptop in the time since I first registered my UX1 in 2009 but it's been counted as 11 computers. 

And got a Macbook recently. That's what I was trying to install Native on when it told me I'd used up my lifetime number of machines. 

stratman3142

Bezzer said:

Jetfire said:

I've had 2 PC's in 10 years, what y'all doing to them??

I was just wondering the same thing ha ha.  About to look at getting a new one, but it's been over a decade since the last and it's only now struggling.

My first device was a PODxt, registered in 2004, then a TonePort UX1, a POD X3 and a Pod Studio GX.

Weirdly, I've got 4 authorizations associated with my current Desktop computer and 2 associated with my current Laptop. I had to reauthorize at various points owing to issues (I can't remember why).

Grumpyrocker

Ah excellent. They've just answered my support ticket and upped my 11 lifetime devices to 30. 

Grumpyrocker

markslade07 said:

Weirdly, I’m currently struggling with a bit of fizzy overtones on my LT (on most patches) into a Laney LFR112...grrrr! 

Mark have you also looked at using the new Horizon Gate block? It's really clever. It's not really a gate, but it helps remove unwanted artefacts. Do use it early in the signal chain though as it makes reverb disappear if you put it at the end.

Here's a video that explains what it does.

Musicman20

The gift that keeps on giving! 

abw1989

• MIDI Snapshot changes on CC69 that are received during preset loads will now be buffered and executed once the preset load is finished. This means that you can send a MIDI Snapshot change immediately after a PC message to effectively load a preset with a different Snapshot than it was saved with.

This however is a straight-up lie. It still doesn't work!

markslade07

Grumpyrocker said:

markslade07 said:

Weirdly, I’m currently struggling with a bit of fizzy overtones on my LT (on most patches) into a Laney LFR112...grrrr! 

Mark have you also looked at using the new Horizon Gate block? It's really clever. It's not really a gate, but it helps remove unwanted artefacts. Do use it early in the signal chain though as it makes reverb disappear if you put it at the end.

Here's a video that explains what it does.

I hadn't to be honest, but I will now. Never really looked at using anything called 'gate' but if this removes those artefacts a little more, I shall do now. Cheers for the heads up

stratman3142

Grumpyrocker said:

Ah excellent. They've just answered my support ticket and upped my 11 lifetime devices to 30. 

Thanks for the heads up. As I'd just hit my limit, for the purpose of future proofing, I decided to do the same and they updated mine to 30 within 3 hours of raising the support ticket.

Bezzer

This did get me curious so I logged onto Line6 to see what I had ... 6 apparantly going back to 2014.  But my lifetime limit is already 25 ... very weird.  Ah well, interesting ... and now I know!

Grumpyrocker

Oooh that new Tape modulation sounds fabulous in the front of almost any preset. 

Grumpyrocker

Over the weekend discovered the brilliance of having an expression set for a wah that'll switch on at a set percentage movement, and switch itself off after a set time back below the percentage. Absolutely brilliant. 

Jota

Grumpyrocker said:

Over the weekend discovered the brilliance of having an expression set for a wah that'll switch on at a set percentage movement, and switch itself off after a set time back below the percentage. Absolutely brilliant. 

Care to share the settings for this because I'd love to make it work for me and haven't figured out how?

Grumpyrocker

Jota said:

Grumpyrocker said:

Over the weekend discovered the brilliance of having an expression set for a wah that'll switch on at a set percentage movement, and switch itself off after a set time back below the percentage. Absolutely brilliant. 

Care to share the settings for this because I'd love to make it work for me and haven't figured out how?

So choose the FX block you want to edit and go into settings and choose "bypass assign". And instead of setting a footswitch set the expression itself as the bypass. You can then set position (I went for 3%) and wait time (I set 650ms).

Now when the expression pedal passes 3% it switches the block on. And even if you drop below 3% it will wait 650ms before turning it off.

I found by default my expression pedal was EXP2 rather than EXP1, I assume something to do with the cable I used. Also I think I had to manually turn the block off and then save the patch - so the default is wah off on the preset. 

PolarityMan

Hows everyone liking the orange? I set it up for practicing some new band tunes last night just orange -> IR (with an ownhammer orange Ir laoded)...sounding pretty decent I thought.

I really like mixing an orange type amp with something more like a SLO for demos so I can see this getting used. 

Jota

Grumpyrocker said:

Jota said:

Grumpyrocker said:

Over the weekend discovered the brilliance of having an expression set for a wah that'll switch on at a set percentage movement, and switch itself off after a set time back below the percentage. Absolutely brilliant. 

Care to share the settings for this because I'd love to make it work for me and haven't figured out how?

So choose the FX block you want to edit and go into settings and choose "bypass assign". And instead of setting a footswitch set the expression itself as the bypass. You can then set position (I went for 3%) and wait time (I set 650ms).

Now when the expression pedal passes 3% it switches the block on. And even if you drop below 3% it will wait 650ms before turning it off.

I found by default my expression pedal was EXP2 rather than EXP1, I assume something to do with the cable I used. Also I think I had to manually turn the block off and then save the patch - so the default is wah off on the preset. 

Thanks. I have to give it a go.

Cookiemonster

After buying a second hand stomp for £300 I am excited to get stuck into the update.

I want to get an expression pedal any suggestions ? 

John_A

Cookiemonster said:

After buying a second hand stomp for £300 I am excited to get stuck into the update.

I want to get an expression pedal any suggestions ? 

If you want something cheap, the Nektar ones on Amazon for £20 work perfectly and are actually pretty good

Cookiemonster

John_A said:

Cookiemonster said:

After buying a second hand stomp for £300 I am excited to get stuck into the update.

I want to get an expression pedal any suggestions ? 

If you want something cheap, the Nektar ones on Amazon for £20 work perfectly and are actually pretty good

Fantastic I will have a look now

Freebird

John_A said:q

Cookiemonster said:

After buying a second hand stomp for £300 I am excited to get stuck into the update.

I want to get an expression pedal any suggestions ? 

If you want something cheap, the Nektar ones on Amazon for £20 work perfectly and are actually pretty good

Or a Moog Moogerfooger EP-3 for a few quid more.