Voodoo Lab

Recently purchased the rack HD Pro X with hopes of setting up program changes with my GCP. In the Utility setup (of the GCP) I switched to the "POD?" option and it appeared to sync up with Line 6. The presets on Line 6 however do not nearly follow the Presets that were loaded to the GCP.
Not having poured over the Line 6 manual to find out why this happens I thought I'd turn it to the forum to see if anyone has had this issue and if there is a way to align both the Line 6 and the GCP presets.
Any thoughts?

Hi; Kind of a basic question here... Will the PX-8 plus control a couple of VL pedal switchers using MIDI cables?

The complicated part is:
I have this idea of running presets via the VL Commander at my feet onto the PX-8 on the pedalboard. Besides that, whether it's conceivable that the Commander could communicate MIDI via the PX-8 to the pedal switchers located on another pedalboard board?

Well, I tried the first model you had up; John.
I absolutely like it! The G major 2 coming in alone on one mixer channel and the four delays on their own channels as well. The mixer allows me to dial in any input volume level that I like plus the reverbs and delays are distinct that don't cut each other out. I dare say that mixing pedal delays with the TC modulations, vibes, and tremolos are new found options. In addition, even if I don't go wet/dry on certain nights, the sounds are terrific on a stand alone amp. I'd would also have to try this out on the amp's effects loop... to see how that would sound.
After chasing the routing thing, I'm happy that I wound up here. This added a new dimension to my playing enjoyment, even if it's a barbaric way of doing it.
Thanks again John and Nyteowl for sharing your thoughts. I do appreciate it.

John,
first off... thank you for putting your time and thought into this! I think that's what I was looking for.
I look forward implementing either of those illustrations and hearing the results.

Yeah, I kind of knew that to be the best order. I have options like using the internal delays and reverbs in the G major 2 exclusively and setting it up to simulate what my dedicated delays do, along with reverb, all via MIDI attached to presets. Or, use Instant access to access individual delays to complement reverb presets, all of which are viable.
That would leave me with four individual delay stomp boxes that I would use anyway. If placed before the G major 2, the activated signals would mess up what the G major sees as an incoming signal. Flangers, choruses, and anything else would sound off because of say a Carbon Copy delay. If I used the G major 2 strictly for reverb then I see that option working. ( Reverb after delay) It's all a matter of trying things out to see. But I hatched up the parallel idea because I've used it before for some different reason and it worked pretty good. I remember using Y cables to split the clean direct signal, but as per my earliest post, I was searching for a less messy signal splitter to get me where I needed to go.
Thanks for the idea, sometimes one tends to overlook the obvious when things get complicated.

Yes. I do use them one at a time, John. It's the reverb, delay clash that I'm seeking to resolve and the only thing I could come with was "parallel" everything.

Nyteowl;
I was following your thinking as you posted, but you couldn't have known what I was aiming for until I laid it out specifically. I really do appreciate you're jumping in to help try to find a solution to my issue. That's not easy to do when you're not seeing the problem first hand.
This isn't the first time you've chimed on a routing problem that I've encountered previously, and just getting someone's thoughts does help in finding a solution.
At least for me, by all means, do post your thoughts. And Thanks!

It'll be awhile for me to post again because I'm redoing the rack almost completely, but I will get back to the forum on how it worked out.

Sorry... been away for a couple of days. Thanks for the replies, I'm starting to see how this is taking shape.
I'll get into the specifics by setting it up this way. I run a wet-dry set-up at gigs, which I like. One of the guitar signal flows from my pedalboard into the GCX. I consider this the effect side of the rig. From the GCX guitar out, I go to a Gmajor 2 at instrument-line level to pick up additional effects and reverb. I get much better guitar signal strength this way as opposed to using the effects loop of an amp. From there I return to loops 1 to 4, each with a dedicated delay pedal. (starts with a real short slap all the way to very long delays.) All of this in series routing.
The reason I feel I need parallel routing is because of the bad interaction of reverb into delays. The delays get wiped out and if I were to put the G major at the tail end of the signal chain; whatever flanger, phaser, or tremolo I use might sound real funky post delay.
So, what I think I need to try is to feed the pedalboard signal to the G major 2 (thru the GCX) and go parallel out to an 8 channel line mixer that I have. But the rub is having to split the other signal (feed thru) to each of the four loops where the delays go parallel to the mixer.
I didn't want 3 or 4 Y-splitters tangling up the back of the rack.

If I'm to get the idea though, the GCX feed thru goes to a buffered splitter, where I use two Y cables connected to the two "out" signals of the buffered splitter to run to the "in"s of loops 1 - 4 of the GCX; Then route the delays parallel into the mixer.
If that's one way to do it, I give it a try.

nyteowl;
Thanks for the reply and yes it does help. (in the hope that this routing can happen)
I can "see" the in's and out's as you have described. The thing I can't see is the pathway out of loop 1 to loop 4. I mean, will the signal appear at loop 4 "out" even though I've taken the send jack of any loop (1-4) to an effect? I guess I interpret the manual as saying I'll mute (break the signal chain) of anything beyond the send jack of, for example, loop 1.
I imagine I could just try it out and see.
By your example though, I can see that it's possible.

Reading from the GCX manual, I can use the send out jack of any given loop to feed an effect unit and then go parallel into a line mixer, I would take it as meaning the original "in" jack signal would not be available at the "out" jack. How could I split the dry signal that's going into the GCX for a group of individual effects (one per loop) other than using a mess of Y splitters?