The controls you will actually use
Not all of them — the handful that account for nearly everything you will do, plus the gestures nothing on the chassis mentions.
03 · 7 min
Learn three things: how to change what the footswitches do (press ◀ PAGE or PAGE ▶ while in Play view), how to save (hold HOME and press ACTION), and how to reach more parameters than the knobs can show.
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Every control on the HX Stomp, and what each press, hold and turn does.
HX Stomp · Top panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
FS1 – FS3
Three switches that change job entirely depending on which of four modes you are in.
- Press, in Stomp mode
- Turns the assigned block or blocks on and off. FS3 is the tap tempo. HX Stomp Cheat Sheet (Rev C)
- Press, in Scroll mode
- FS1 loads the previous preset, FS2 the next. FS3 is still tap tempo. HX Stomp Cheat Sheet (Rev C)
Worth knowingFS3 is the tap tempo in every mode. You effectively have two free switches, not three, which is the real reason to learn snapshots on this device.
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 ◀ PAGE or PAGE ▶ while in Play view.
This is worth internalising because almost every report of a Line 6 modeller “breaking” is a unit sitting in a mode the owner did not choose. Nothing is wrong with it.
Save, or lose it
Changes are not saved until you tell the device to save them — hold HOME and press ACTION. 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.
Get into the habit early. Losing an afternoon's work to a preset change is a rite of passage nobody needs.
HX Stomp Cheat Sheet (Rev C)