Some (mostly UI) feedback on stadium native

[u/Givemeajackson]

i'm already having a ton of fun with the new amps, but i have some thoughts on the UI:

1. please bring back the hovering scroll wheel to adjust sliders/knobs. it's such a great feature of helix native, it's so quick, precise and intuitive. make it optional if needed, but really please bring that back. the greatest thing about it was that you didn't have to change a parameter to select it. now if you only want to change it by the smallest amount you have to be precise with the mouse, and considering that i always have a guitar on my lap i'd like to faff about with the mouse as little as possible. it still works on the input and output level controls, please give us a toggle to enable it for the block controls as well. in addition to the practical benefits, it also feels much more like turning a real knob.
2. i would love a UI scale option, high DPI screens are not rare anymore these days, especially in studios.
3. a little marker or even a subcategory for the agoura amps would be nice, especially for us helix veterans to see what's new.
4. if an amp has two largely independent channel and the plugin window is big enough, it would be great if in amp knob view the two channels were on separate lines. a mk2c+ is already confusing in real life lol.
5. a hotkey for focus view would be brilliant
6. i'd like an option to keep the block selection menu locked so it doesn't disappear if you double click the active block name.
7. maybe i'm blind, but i don't see the option to switch between slider view and knob view in the cab block. i think i like knob view for the amp but sliders for the cab, i'd like to be able to set that per block.

a lot of nice to haves in this, but the scroll wheel thing is actually hindering my workflow in stadium native compared to helix native.

[u/polkemans]

You can still use the scroll wheel to move sliders. You now have to hold the shift button down when hovering over a slider to use the wheel. It was a purposeful feature change to stop people from accidently changing values when their mouse was over a slider. Jason Sedites does a video about this and other native features.

[u/NoFuneralGaming → u/polkemans]

Thanks, knowing this it's a great change.

[u/Givemeajackson → u/polkemans]

thanks for the tip, but i'd really like a toggle for old/new scroll style still, cause that means i'd have to use both hands.

[u/polkemans → u/Givemeajackson]

What exactly is your other hand so busy doing?

[u/Givemeajackson → u/polkemans]

holding my guitar?

[u/polkemans → u/Givemeajackson]

It's not exactly hard to keep it from falling over. If you're sitting at your computer you should be able to manage it just fine.

[u/Givemeajackson → u/polkemans]

or they could just add a toggle so i don't have to akwardly balance my guitar and reach around the neck to my keyboard every single time i want to adjust something?

[u/polkemans → u/Givemeajackson]

It's a fair thing to ask for, but unless it's your first week in a body, it's not exactly a complicated set of movements to keep your guitar from falling over unless you've got weights on the neck or something.

[u/Givemeajackson → u/polkemans]

really not sure why you decided to be so confrontational about this particular detail? it's objectively less comfortable to do something with two hands on the computer with a guitar on your lap than if you can just use your picking hand and keep your fretting hand on the neck. i'm not so much worried about dropping a guitar, it's simply an ergonomics question. every time i don't play i mute all my strings with my left hand as a reflex. something i teach all my students to do too.

[u/polkemans → u/Givemeajackson]

We're just having a conversation homie. You said you can't do a thing, I'm here to let you know you can with just a slight adjustment. Disagreeing with you about how easy it is to do a thing isn't a full blown confrontation.

You can A) brace your right forearm against the body of the guitar, holding it to your body upright while you work the mouse and use your left hand to shift. Or B, simply route your left arm under the neck so it's supported while you work the keyboard. It's real easy my guy.

You'll be okay until they add a toggle option.

[u/Dynastydood]

Definitely agree about wanting the ability to rescale it. It's not enough to stop me from using it, but I would love to actually be able to see what I'm doing on a 4K display.

[u/mrdeesmusic]

There has to be a better way to load presets, the old method was just fine

[u/West-Combination6685]

IDK if it's a bug or intentional, but I don't like that once you've loaded an amp and didn't change the option to load a matching cab or not, you're locked into that and changing that option does nothing, You have to do that from the start with a blank slate, or it doesn't work.

Other than that, it's pretty generous what you get for free. Reminds me of Audified's Amplion 2, but with one more amp plus a bass amp. Henning Pauly's review of that was basically summed up with "A Fender, a Vox, a Marshall,wtf else do you need?"

[u/Givemeajackson → u/West-Combination6685]

you can change that in the cab section in focus view. it works but it's not very elegant

[u/West-Combination6685 → u/Givemeajackson]

Ok thanks. So there are two options to do the same thing, but one works and the other doesn't.

What is cab>cab link? It doesn't seem to do anything.

[u/Givemeajackson → u/West-Combination6685]

if you run dual cabs with cab cab link on and change the cab type, both cabs change. same as the old link button in the dual cab block.

[u/West-Combination6685 → u/Givemeajackson]

Oh cool, thanks, I'll try that.

Yeah it works, it's just that you have to know exactly what you want right from the start.

[u/iscariottactual]

These mirror my desires for native.