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I can understand why you'd suggest it's stingy for another manufacturer to sell the same processor in a different box with a different algorithm loaded, but that's just being negative about the competition rather than positive about yourselves. If the customer wants spillover/carryover, then they need a second processor to deliver it when they switch to another sound, don't they? And buying a second box gives dedicated controls for the second effect. So maybe it's not stingy, but merely satisfying customer demand?
But, that being said, well done you lot at Line 6!
Don't think it'll make any difference in the applications you want, but according to a little footnote in manual the polyphonic pitch patches (Poly Pitch/Poly Wham/Poly Capo/12 String) are in mono on the HX One to reduce DSP usage.
Presumably dual mono if you're using it in stereo? Might be one to ask @rossyamaha
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But looks like it will do it between active and bypass if you select DSP bypass.
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That said I don't think the latency on the pitchshift is any different to the Ricochet I'm already using so I'm not in any hurry to jump on this I think
An Ibby TS9 is about £120 now, and has zero R&D spend anymore. the 808 is about £170!
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The best practice tool I've ever had or seen in nearly 40 years of playing and they do that. Cheap bastards.
At least Source Audio make it clear that buyers of the Drive / Fuzz pedals can download all the algos from all of them.
I think the HXOne is a great idea. Most of my Nano+ board is locked in with things I always need (bass). Compressor, Octave, Drive, tuner, HPF (underneath) but I swap the other thing quite a lot between a second drive, envelope filter, synth etc etc, and then it's a compromise for a gig. I wouldn't have to do that with the HX One.
I refuse to take anything bigger than a Nano+ so I'm quite tempted by this.
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This was the biggest obstacle to getting the most from the M5, IMO, and getting around it with an expensive, complicated switching system seems like a "sledgehammer to crack a nut" sort of solution if all you want is to use one pedal in a couple of different ways. Good to see they've come up with a solution.
Likewise, the need for an expression pedal was going to be an obstacle for some since the M5 is a big unit anyway, and an expression pedal takes up yet more pedalboard space. Not using one meant you couldn't use some of the effects models properly (whammy, wahs, even the slow/fast ramp on the Leslie models) and couldn't do some of the fun things other models were capable of. With only 24 presets you could even use the expression pedal to give you two different variations on a single effect while only using one preset slot. The HX One fixes most of that- 128 presets means no need to double up if you don't want to, and the Flux switch will do a big chunk of what you'd need the expression pedal for.
In terms of an upgrade for existing M5 users (and for generally doing the "toolbox" pedal job better) I think these are really good changes. At least as big a deal in use as all the new effects algorithms.
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If you are looking at the DD-200 now, the Peach price for the HX One is only an extra £30. It is competing with those units rather than the rest of the Helix line IMO
Better still, couldn't you put it in the Stomp's insert loop, then you could have it anywhere you want in the chain.
Add a MIDI cable and you can have patch changes on the Stomp call up the effect you want from the HX One.
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Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Is Flux similar to TC's mash? Kind of a change between 2 states of a variable over a certain time period?
Yes. It might not work exactly the same, but the principle is very similar. It could be something as simple as switching between the slow and fast speeds of a Leslie sim, or it could alter *all* the effects parameters.
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