Indeed, the Stomp XL could scarcely be more practical.
#Stomp musical software
When you’ve selected a preset, you can then of course hit the Mode switch enter Stomp mode and play around within that preset's sounds.įurther editing is available via HX Edit software – very useful when using it in a home studio environment, and you can control it via MIDI.
Preset mode maps the four presets per bank to footswitches A to D, and simply go through the banks via the up/down footswitches. In the same way, it's more practical than an Axe-Fx II, but has a serious rival in the AX8 if you just want a set of sounds simply delivered. While Kemper's Profiler has the ability to mimic the sound of any amp, the Helix offers a more compact and manageable stage experience than the separate head and controller provide. This is the sort of kit to make a digital convert of the most devoutly analogue player. The sound quality is incredible, the user experience unsurpassed. Neural DSP Quad Cortex (opens in new tab)Ī pro-quality amp modeller and effects unit that presents its many features in an easy-to-use format, the Neural DSP Quad Cortex is a triumph of design.We'd wager that Preset and Stomp modes are where you will spend most of your time, with Preset mode allowing you to cycle through banks of your sounds – amps, effects, cabs, etc – and Stomp mode, where the six active footswitches can be assigned a variety of tasks, from turning an effect on an off, cueing up the looper, toggling between sound blocks. The capacitive-touch footswitches with colour-coded LED rings remains an excellent player-friendly design, especially under challenging lighting, while the LED display and controls is nice and clear, and actually might make the Pedal Edit mode, wherein you adjust your presets via the footswitches, largely redundant except for those odd moments when, of course, you really need a hands-free edit option.Īnyway, as with the supreme functionality of the contemporary amp modeller, there are always little features that you never seem use, only to find them one day saving your set. Solid, road-worthy, with an emphasis on intuitive design. Line 6 HX Stomp XL review: performance and verdict The four-cable option allows you to run drives, fuzzes and boosts straight into the front end of your guitar amplifier and place time-based effects in your guitar amplifier's effects loop. There is, of course, an abundance of sounds already preloaded on the Stomp XL, with some 300-plus HX and legacy amps, cabinet emulations and effects onboard, but you can upload third-party IRs, or incorporate your hardware stompboxes via a stereo effects loop.Īmple opportunity is offered for attaching expression pedals to control parameters on the fly, and while the whole idea of the expanded format of the Stomp XL is to help make performance easier and more flexible, you can also send it directly to your DAW and run the unit as a multi-channel 24-bit/96kHz USB audio interface.
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