Helix App Pilot's Guide

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Home Panel
The Home panel is likely where you'll spend the most time, since it provides access to
all aspects of your preset's signal ow at the top, and displays all editable parameters
for the currently-selected block at the bottom. The options oered here are the same
as found in the "inspector" across the bottom of your device's screen, making editing
very straight-forward.
Model List
Menu
Model
Bypass
Parameters
Adding, Clearing & Bypassing Blocks
To add any type of block to your tone, simply hover your mouse cursor over the desired
location on any path and you'll see an empty block location appear. Once you select
the location, choose any type of block from the Model List Menu in the lower portion
of the Home panel.
To clear any existing block, hover your mouse cursor over the block and click the red
"X" that appears, hit your Delete key, or select Clear from the block's (Ctrl-Click or
Right-Click) context menu.
To toggle the bypass of any block, click the Bypass toggle button that appears above
the block when hovering over it, or select the block and hit your spacebar. Alternatively,
a Model Bypass button also appears for the selected block in the lower panel display.
Bypass Toggle Clear Button
Moving Blocks & Arranging the Signal Flow
To move blocks within a signal path, simply click and drag any block to its desired loca-
tion. To follow are a number of pointers for arranging the signal ow in dierent ways.
Split Paths - To create a split path, simply drag a block down from the main sig-
nal path and you'll see a parallel, split path (Path B) appear, with both a Split and
Merge block created at each end. To remove the split path, clear or move all blocks
out of the parallel path.
Split and Merge Blocks - Note that you can click directly on these Mix blocks of
a split path and drag to move them as desired as well. When selected, you can
choose from among the types of Split and Merge blocks, as well as edit their op-
tions.
Path 1 / Path 2 - Just like on the hardware, it is not possible to move a block be-
tween Path 1 and Path 2, but you can copy a block and then paste into any desired
location on the opposite path to duplicate it there along with all its current settings
- see next section.
Copying & Pasting Blocks
To copy a block, along with all its current parameter settings, click on the block to select
it, then either Ctrl-Click/Right-Click and choose Copy from the context menu (or use
the Cmd-C/Ctrl-C keyboard shortcut). To paste, click to select your desired destination
and choose Paste from the block's context menu (or Cmd-V/Ctrl-V). To follow are a few
handy copy & paste tips.
Paste Location - You can paste into either an "empty" block location or one that
is already occupied by another block. If already occupied, this will replace the
existing block.
Mix Type Blocks - Copy & paste are also available for Input, Output, Split and
Merge block types too, where the settings from one of these blocks can be copied
& pasted into a location with the same block type.
NOTE: Only one Looper block can exist within any preset at a time.