Manual
Table Of Contents
- Helix Owner's Manual
- Contents
- Welcome to Helix
- Quick Start
- Setting Proper Output Levels
- Selecting Presets and Setlists
- Preset Footswitch Mode
- Stomp Footswitch Mode
- Looper Footswitch Mode
- Pedal Edit Mode
- Selecting Blocks/Adjusting Parameters
- Bypassing a Block
- Choosing a Block's Model
- Choosing an Input
- Choosing an Output
- Moving Blocks
- Copying and Pasting a Block
- Clearing a Block
- Clearing All Blocks
- Saving/Naming a Preset
- Serial vs. Parallel Routing
- Removing Parallel Path B
- Moving Split & Merge Blocks for More Parallel Routings
- Dynamic DSP
- Block Order and Stereo Imaging
- What is Variax?
- The Blocks
- Tuner
- Footswitch Assign
- Controller Assign
- Command Center
- Global EQ
- Global Settings
- USB Audio
- MIDI
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3. On Helix, select the Input block and set it to receive from the
same USB stereo pair (USB In 3/4) and keep the Output block
set to "Multi." Load your choice of amps and eects on the
current Helix preset.
16B Dream Rig Duet
FeedbackTime
[37%]
Delay Harmony Delay
LevelMixKeyScale
0.0 dB40%MinorD1/8
DRY DI GUITAR
USB
RE-AMPED GUITAR
TRACK 1 (Dry DI Guitar)
T
RA
C
K
2
(
Processed
G
uitar
)
TRACK 3 (Re-amped Guitar)
4. Now play your DAW project and you'll hear the DI track "re-
amped" through your Helix! Adjust the DI track's volume slider
to make sure the signal feeding into Helix is not too hot. Tweak
your Helix amp & eects as desired while listening with the
playback of your project mix.
5. Once you have your re-amplied guitar tone they way you like
it, Solo both the DI and re-amped tracks, rewind to the start of
the project and hit the DAW Record button, allowing it to cap-
ture the signal into the new re-amped track in real-time.
Allow the DI track to play to the end, stop recording and you've created your new re-
amped guitar track!
TIP: Note that you still have your original Guitar DI track, and you can repeat this
process to create additional re-amped tracks with dierent Helix settings, add
plug-ins, blend with your original guitar track and more.
ASIO
®
Driver Settings (Windows
®
only)
When using Helix as an audio interface for Windows
®
DAW applications, it is highly
recommended to congure the software to utilize the "ASIO
®
" Helix driver. The Line
6 ASIO
®
driver oers the superior, low-latency audio performance required for DAW
recording. This driver selection is typically found in your DAW software's Preferences
or Options dialog - see your software's documentation.
NOTE: Download and install the latest Line 6 Helix ASIO
®
driver from
line6.com/software.
Once the ASIO
®
Helix driver has been selected in your DAW software, you'll also see a
button in the same dialog for "ASIO
®
Settings" (or with a similar title). Press this button
to launch the Helix Control Panel, which is where you make the following Helix driver
settings.
Sound
Control
Panel
This button launches the Windows
®
Sound Control Panel, which is
where you can optionally congure Helix to be the audio playback
device for multi-media applications (such as Windows
®
Media
Player, iTunes
®
, etc.) These settings are not relevant for your DAW
software, since these applications utilize the standard Windows
®
driver.