RME Website News, Welcome to RME, our news, driver news, product news. IV. Pod Setup. A. Understanding Output Modes. Simple Guide for Settings ii. Where Confusion Sets In iii. Global EQ iv. LiveVoiced Cabs v. CabMic Simulation. Line. 6 Helix Effects Processor Full Review Best. I have not always been a fan of Line. Helix floor. pedal about to make me change my mind and yours Find out in the. Asio Fx Processor Levels' title='Asio Fx Processor Levels' />Now Complete. Click for larger view. Back in the day when the kidney bean POD effects processor came out it was. Asio Fx Processor Levels' title='Asio Fx Processor Levels' />I remember how everyone was very excited. But like most things, plug one in today and those very same sounds. Indeed personally I would no longer use one. Then came the Line. Live pedal. I had one for. I could say like a bee in a tin can for the. Asio Fx Processor Levels' title='Asio Fx Processor Levels' />Only at Sweetwater Current Updates, 0 Financing, FREE Shipping, FREE Tech Support, and FREE Warranty for Behringer X32 Digital MixerI managed to get ONE great sound from it. Then came at. least for me the Line. Vhgh60itkEo0ivXOVQOD0OQf3hMHwPr.gif' alt='Asio Fx Processor Levels' title='Asio Fx Processor Levels' />HD5. HD sound whatever that. That was a bit. like the emperors new clothes as far as I was concerned I heard. HD in there at all and to be honest as I always am the HD 5. I read the pilots manual but still crashed and. Later of course Yamaha stepped in and took over or bought the. Indeed the Helix. Yamaha. pulling the strings in the background. Hopefully Helix comes in two formats, a floor pedal design as shown here. But of. course with the rack there is an optional additive cost of the. The floor unit as. This is not pocket money is it My view is that the Helix seems to bypass the Kemper Profiler. Fractal Audio Axe Fx, a device long. Lets hope. that the hype of the Line. Helix does not compare to that of Fractal. Audio which has been effectively pushing the Axe Fx by everyone and. Fractal a fortune in free evaluation. I watched a video made by Andertons recently about the Helix. Line. 6 lets call him that and the other guys showed the Helix and. Its not what you need when you are. Its true to say. Andertonite is that. If the Helix is as good as. HD mentality. of Line. It does look. cool, but surely we buy these units for their features and sounds. On the face of it, the Helix looks aesthetically pleasing as they. English and seems to be designed by some hi fi geek in a. Line. 6. history. Sure it does look nice dont get me wrong, but. OK I bought one Yes the looks alone drew me to buy this effects. I dont have enough of them and for sure it was not. Andertons video below I am going to take it apart, examine. I will. play it too in various pre sets as indeed a device like this should. This review is the most in depth review I have. Helix. It will only be available on this site as I have. So on with. the review. So where do we start When it arrived I was shocked by the size of the box that the. Helix came in. WOW I immediately thought that maybe this thing. In any case once I. I felt much better. The unit is packed very. Helix still in transit. Mine was perfect out of the box. I bought mine from Thomann because I had a bit of trouble getting. The good news is that I got it pretty early on for. Europe. the bad news is that my pristine Helix had been previously. This concerned. me. In fact the unit proved to be. I honestly expected better from Thomann and Ill be. I want to buy something else from. You should remember that too. Once I got the unit out of the box I can confirm that the pedal is. Helix a feel of quality. The overall. feel and view of the Helix is exceptional especially with that large. The Manual. I looked inside the box for the manual which is not supplied as. Rather than printing a manual Line. USB stick that is nicely. HELIX on the outside that includes an electronic PDF. Great if you have a printer and you have. The manual needs really to be printed out in colour so you can. Print it now and while youre at it. Also included with the Helix is a quick start guide, a hex. USB. cable, a mains cable and thats about it. So whats next Software, Drivers, Librarian and Firmware. Now like most computer related stuff the Helix is no exception. Helix. After all, its basically a. Plug in and turn on the Helix you can just do that. Mine was this Click for a larger view. As you can see mine was version 1. I downloaded the. PC. By the. way they do have software for an Apple too. Once installed I was left with literally an installer program. To use the installer you need to hop over to. Line. 6 and make an account firstly then run this installer. Connect. the Helix with the supplied USB cable before you log in. Helix. Sure enough the installer. Helix and confirmed there was a new firmware and pre sets version available. So click and install it. The Helix screen. So now we have the Helix with the latest firmware and pre sets. The Librarian. Hmmm not a pretty sight. Because this librarian is version 1 it. I would call exceptional in any way other than it was. While its true to say that you can change. IRs. more on those later the fact is, that the librarian software seems. No doubt it will improve but. Click for a larger view. As you can see the window of the librarian cannot be enlarged. Lets hope they improve this soon. I dont intend. to go in to any depth on this piece of software as it is clearly. Line. 6 need to get their act. Roland one is better and. I had previously seen. Come on Line. 6 wake. Inside the Helix. Somewhere out there in time I think that some of the companies. Helix coming. Lets face it, there were few processors out there. Helix also does. So it might have been a bit of a shock. But lets take a closer look. Helix for a unit that sells for. European pricing. The Main Processors Analog Devices ADSP 2. SHARC. Processors Click for a larger view These are the fourth generation of SHARC processors from Analog. Devices. Features include Increased performance over previous generations. Hardware based filter accelerators Audio and application focused peripherals. Rancid B Sides And C Sides Rar here. New memory configurations that support the latest. All SHARC processors are pin compatible and code compatible. Single instruction multiple data SIMD core. Supports 3. 2 bit fixed point and 3. But most importantly these ADSP 2. Mhz2. 70. 0 MFLOPs within. SHARC processor family from Analog. Devices so it may be that older designs out there used in. So if the. older processors really are the high price that some have suggested. For a better view of exactly what these SHARC processors offer. HERE IT IS. So its good to know that the Helix from Line. Other Technology. The NXP Semiconductors LPC4. Cortex M4M0 Dual Core Micro. Controllers. Click for a larger view. This chip offers the worlds first. Asymmetrical dual core digital signal controller architecture. This chip. uses ARM technology from the United Kingdom for the MCU M4s and. M0 co processors offering the advantage of developing both digital. AND microcontroller applications within the same. This reduces the size and complexity of the circuitry. Features are extensive. Download a technical specification sheet on the LPC4. HERE TO DOWNLOADThe NXP LPC1. FBD1. 44 Cortex M3 Microcontroller. Click for a larger view. The LPC1. 77. 4 is again based on ARM Cortex technology. Mhz. Features include 1. Kb Flash Ram. 40. Kb of data memory which is separateUSB 2. Device integral. 8 channel DMA controller. UARTs. Two CAN channels. Three SSPSPIThree I2. COne I2. S8 Channel 1. Bit A to D converter. Bit DACMotor control PWMFour general purpose timers. PWMUltra low power real time clock with separate battery supply. Up to 1. 09 general purpose IO pins. There are a multitude of other features included in this surface. HERE PDF The Cirrus Logic CS4. Bit, 1. 92. Khz Stereo Audio CODECClick for a larger view. The Cirrus Logic CS4. It is a high performance audio CODEC. A to D and D to A conversion up to 2.