devices · Helix Floor · learn · 03 of 08 · 7 min
the controls you will use
the one thing
Learn three things: how to change what the footswitches do (press FS6, marked PRESET / STOMP), how to save (press SAVE twice), and how to reach more parameters than the knobs can show.
click anything
Every control on the Helix Floor, and what each press, hold and turn does.
controls and footswitches
Helix Floor · top panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
FS1–FS12
Twelve switches in two rows of six. Each has a color LED ring and a scribble strip above it that shows what the switch is doing.
- Press, in Stomp mode
- Turns the assigned block or blocks on and off, like a pedal.
- Press, in Preset mode
- Loads a preset. Pressing the one you are already on reloads it.
- Touch, without pressing
- Selects the block that switch controls, on screen, without changing the sound. Touch again to cycle through multiple assigned items.
- Touch and hold
- Assigns the currently selected block to that switch.
- Worth knowing
- They are capacitive, so they respond to a foot resting on them. If the screen keeps jumping to a block you did not choose, your foot is touching a switch without pressing it.
modes are the whole game
The footswitches do not have fixed jobs. What they do depends on the mode, and to change it you press FS6, marked PRESET / STOMP.
A Line 6 modeler that looks broken is usually in a mode you did not choose. Change the mode and it works again.
save, or lose it
Changes are not saved until you tell the device to save them—press SAVE twice. Until then, an “E” beside the preset name marks it as edited.
Change preset while that E is showing and your work is gone with no warning and no undo.
Save before you change preset. An unsaved edit is lost on the switch.
Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)