Hey, I’m Yashar — welcome to Helrig 👋

• Connects to your pedal in Helrig for Mac, Windows, Linux and Android: it opens the preset the pedal is playing, reads every setlist off it, saves presets back and edits the pedal live. Before it writes to a slot, Helrig backs that slot up, and it checks the result afterwards.
• Keeps every preset from every pedal you own in one library (10 editable on a free account, all of them on Pro), and converts a tone from one pedal to another, listing every change it had to make.
• Works with Helix Floor, LT and Rack, HX Stomp, HX Stomp XL, HX Effects, and presets from Helix Native — and converts between them, telling you exactly what had to change.
• Shows the whole signal chain the way I always wanted to see it — blocks, amp + cab pairings, parallel A/B splits. On a small screen, one tap fits the whole thing on screen at once.
• Undo and redo everything, with a named history you can jump back through — “Add Deluxe Comp”, not forty rows of “Edit”.
• Lets you browse snapshots, controller assignments, and footswitch mappings without squinting.
• Estimates per-path DSP as you go, based on each block’s actual mono/stereo width — so you can see the ceiling coming.
• Drag blocks to reorder them; add, swap, or remove anything from the full model catalog.
• Search for any block by its real-world name or its Line 6 name — “tube screamer” and the internal model name both work. Not having this cost me real time building presets, so it was one of the first things I built.
• Build parallel splits, and choose mono or stereo where a model supports it.
• Set the preset tempo — type it, or tap it in against whatever you’re playing along to — and store it per snapshot.
• Assign a block’s bypass to a footswitch, a snapshot, or a MIDI CC.
• Open presets straight out of an .hxb device backup or an .hls setlist, without the pedal plugged in.
• Spin up a brand-new preset from scratch for HX Stomp or Helix, then export a clean .hlx.
• Keep your presets in a cloud library if you want one — organised by setlist and label, searchable by the gear inside them, with version history and a trash you can undo from. Entirely optional; the editor works the same signed out.
• Share a preset with a link. Anyone holding it can see the chain, open it in the editor or download the .hlx; the rest of your library stays private, and you can revoke the link from the same place you made it.

This is still the opening move. Here’s what’s next, plus an idea I’m turning over. Not promises, just things I’d love to build:

• An iPad app. Planned; there’s no date yet. The same editor and library, on the music stand.
• AI rig generation — someday, maybe. Describe the tone in your head — “spongy blackface clean with a slapback” — and get a real starting patch. I’d love to build this, but it’s an idea I’m turning over, not something in active development yet.
• …and more. There’s a whole list. There’s always a list. 😅

Talking to your pedal over USB is something I could never have got right on my own: I have two of the six Helix and HX pedals. A group of beta testers has been plugging theirs in, sending me reports and captures, and telling me exactly where I got it wrong, on their computers and on their Android phones and tablets. Saving to the HX Stomp XL, the Command Center, the Android app and a lot of fixes in between came straight from them. A special thank you to Ben Winter, Cătălin M., Detlef Randerath, Federico Seitún, Greg, JoeyL, Josh "Tabbie" Williams - Midnite City, Liam P, Marcos Nava and Marinos C., and to everyone else testing along.

Helrig is a one-person passion project. It isn’t built by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Line 6 or Yamaha — “Line 6”, “Helix”, and “HX” are their trademarks; I’m just a long-time fan who uses their gear.