Controls and footswitches
Every control on the Helix Floor, on a diagram you can click. Pick anything to see what it does — including the gestures nothing on the chassis tells you about.
Helix Floor · Top panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
FS1 – FS12
Twelve switches in two rows of six, each with a colour LED ring and a scribble strip above it that renames itself to whatever the switch is doing.
- Press, in Stomp mode
- Turns the assigned block or blocks on and off, like a pedal. Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)
- Press, in Preset mode
- Loads a preset. Pressing the one you are already on reloads it. Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)
- Touch, without pressing
- Selects the block that switch controls, on screen, without changing the sound. Touch again to cycle through multiple assigned items. Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)
Worth knowingThey are capacitive, so they respond to a foot resting on them. If the screen keeps jumping to a block you did not choose, that is what is happening — you are touching a switch you have not pressed.
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)Pedal Edit mode — edit blocks with your feet without crouching down.
printed on the chassis
Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)Preset Spillover on or off. Removes Path 2 and gives you delay and reverb trails across preset changes.
This is the fix for “my reverb cuts off when I change patch”, and it costs you half the processing power. Worth knowing before you decide the unit is broken.
manual only
Helix 3.80 Owner's ManualJumps to Controller Assign for that parameter. The quickest route to putting something on the expression pedal.
manual only
Helix Cheat Sheet (Rev D)