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I seen Paul on FB saying he was going to a friends studio in edinburgh for some Helix fun... don't get too drunk
Can anyone confirm what the ramp and splice parameters do. I'm assuming that splice is kind of like random tape crinkle on a strymon tape algo. What about ramp?
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57776/handsomerik/p1
I love the random oscillations, and spent ages early trying to work out how to trigger them, but to no avail
ran out of time wiring up some of my amps
I always learn new things with Paul
I had a Helix earlier in the year and it ran fine though S/PDIF into Focusrite Saffire PRO14.
This new unit is troublesome though:
I have connected Helix SPDIF out to my Focusrite Saffire Pro 14, set Helix to Digital out = SPDIF and sample rate is 48KHz. When I set the Saffire pro to Sync Source SPDIF and sample rate to 48KHz I get no sound but the meters are jumping about as though there is a loud signal passing through but I hear nothing, the Sync light doesn't illuminate on the Focusrite.
If I tun the Helix volume knob down to zero I get sync lock but no sound and the Focusrite meters show no activity
I tried a difference S/PDIF cable and got intermittent sound a for a few seconds then nothing, meters jumping about but no sound.
The Focusrite is connected to monitors and an iMac running MacOS High Sierra.
Helix sound output through 1/4 jacks an headphones is fine.
Could the Helix digital path be faulty or have a bad S/PDIF out socket?
sorry but simple stuff first
I’m not looking to switch from my Axe FX but for recording Native has some really cool stuff in it.
Prrimarily I want to use it for bass sounds, which I think it does fantastically well for my tastes, especially the more driven bass sounds. Also I think the delay models, particularly the Adriatic and Elephant, sound great and I would use those on non guitar sources too. The reverbs have a very different vibe to the Fractal or other plugin reverbs I have, they sound like nice guitar pedal reverbs if that makes sense, and that’s actually pretty useful as sometimes a less hifi reverb winds up sitting better in a recording. Again it’d be easy to chuck non guitar sources through the reverbs as necessary which is also handy.
With the way I record guitar I never record my post amp effects, as I prefer the flexibility of tweaking delays/reverbs/post amp modulations etc as plugins in the DAW. So Native does add quite a bit of stuff for me even if I don’t always use the amp modelling.
I’m probably not going to spend much time A/Bing between Native and the Axe FX as I like them for different things and I try to just go on instinct rather than spend forever tweaking things. The only overlap for me are the delays (though it’s more practical for me to use Natives the way I record) and the AC30 models, which I like on both though they each have a different vibe. For most guitar tones I go for I prefer the Axe FX models, and for most bass stuff I prefer Native. There are good effects sounds in both, just for practicality I’m likely to use Axe FX for all pre-distortion effects and Native or other plugins for post.
@Digital_Igloo Have you seen this before, issues with Digital out?
if you are getting meter jumps and no audio
do you have another digital output you can put into the focus rite to eliminate it?
Why would the meters stop activity when I turn the volume on the Helix down? I thought the volume knob didn't affect the digital output? Also, the activity is not sound, could it be digital noise?
the activity could just be amp and pedal hiss
what ever it is, if you are seeing it on the meters shouldn’t you be hearing it from the speakers
does it spike when you run a signal through it?
are you able to make it the master and slave the helix to it?
When I set the Helix and Saffire to 96KHz the meters stop moving but there is no sync lock and no sound!
Weird huh?
Not sure what that means or how to do that
This ensures the packets that are sent from one device are in sync with the others. At the moment you have the Focusrite set as the master (clock source internal) and the helix as the slave (clock external)
Can you set the Helix to be the master (internal) and the Focusrite to be the slave (external)?
without the devices in front of me I’m speaking in general terms so it may not be possible but it’s what I would try next (before just using the analogue outs)
sorry that’s as far as I can go with you just now
You’ll have to raise a ticket