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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.
The things you have to be told
Some of these are printed on the box. The rest are in the manual, or nowhere, and they are the difference between owning this device and being able to use it.
Swaps the left-hand column between Preset up/down and Snapshot up/down.
manual only
Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)Enters Pedal Edit mode, for editing blocks with your feet.
printed on the chassis
Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)Turns Preset Spillover on or off. Delay and reverb trails carry across preset changes, and Path 2 is removed.
This fixes reverb cutting off when you change preset. It costs half the processing power.
manual only
Helix 3.80 Owner's ManualJumps to Controller Assign for that parameter. It is the quickest way to put something on the expression pedal.
manual only
Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)