helixgen-core
The core Python library + CLI behind helixgen: generate Line 6 Helix
Stadium .hsp presets (and legacy .hlx) from JSON tone recipes, edit them
surgically in place, manage impulse responses by Stadium-exact content hash,
and control a Helix Stadium directly over the LAN (OSC-over-ZeroMQ — no
editor app).
⚠️ Unofficial tool — use at your own risk. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Line 6 / Yamaha (see Trademark notice). Loading any user-generated preset on your hardware carries risk — rejected loads, corrupted preset slots, on-device crashes. Review what you import. The MIT LICENSE disclaims all warranty.
Repo family
| Repo | What it is |
|---|---|
| helixgen-core (this repo) | The helixgen Python package: libs + CLI (the engine's only surface) |
| helixgen | The Claude Code plugin — /tone, /setup, /device skills + marketplace |
| helixgen-tui | Terminal UI for tones, setlists, and device control |
Want natural-language preset generation inside Claude Code? Install the plugin — you don't need this repo directly. This repo is for using the CLI/library standalone, or developing against it.
Install
Requires Python 3.11+. Published to PyPI:
pip install 'helixgen[device]'
Extras: device (network device control: pyzmq, msgpack, paramiko),
dev (pytest).
A standalone install starts with an empty block library — seed it first:
helixgen bootstrap
Computing IR hashes from WAVs (register-irs <wav>, ir-scan) additionally
needs libsndfile (brew install libsndfile / apt install libsndfile1).
Quick tour
helixgen list-blocks --category amp # browse the block library
helixgen show-block "Brit Plexi Brt" # exact param names/ranges
helixgen generate recipe.json -o tone.hsp # author a preset from a recipe
helixgen set-param tone.hsp "Tape Echo Stereo" Mix 0.3 # surgical edit
helixgen view tone.hsp # read a .hsp back as a recipe
helixgen device list # talk to a Stadium on the LAN
helixgen device sync my-setlist # mirror a managed setlist onto it
Full references:
docs/CLI.md— every verb, including the completehelixgen devicereference.docs/recipe-reference.md— the exhaustive recipe schema (paths, splits, snapshots, footswitches, expression, MIDI, Command Center, IRs).docs/ir-hash-algorithm.md— the reverse-engineered Stadium IR hash, field-validated.docs/helix-protocol.md— the network protocol.
Tests
Run from a source checkout with the package on PYTHONPATH:
PYTHONPATH=$PWD/src python -m pytest
Live integration suite (tests/live/)
An opt-in suite that drives the real CLI via subprocess against the
user's real block library and a real Helix Stadium on the LAN. It is
skipped entirely (fast, green) unless HELIXGEN_LIVE=1:
HELIXGEN_LIVE=1 PYTHONPATH=$PWD/src python -m pytest tests/live -q
Tests are grouped by impact area with registered markers — authoring,
library, ir, device_read, device_write, liveops, setlists,
sync, device_ir, locks, discover (plus live on everything and
live_global for the
extra-gated global-settings write) — so a targeted change can run just its
blast radius, e.g.:
HELIXGEN_LIVE=1 PYTHONPATH=$PWD/src python -m pytest -m "live and sync" tests/live
The device_write module's #38 regression guard only guards when the active
preset's edit buffer is dirty — that is the state that made
/CreateContent answer status field 3 = 1, which pre-0.30.0 clients misread
as an error and "cleaned up". A clean buffer answers 0 and exercises the
uninteresting path. The dirty_edit_buffer fixture establishes that state
itself (a manual tweak wouldn't survive: an earlier device load in the same
module clears the flag), and skips rather than passing green if it can't —
so a skip there means the guard did not actually run. See each module's
docstring.
Safety is enforced by fixtures: all local state (manifest, IR mapping,
IR-hash cache, prefs, backups) is redirected to a scratch dir; an upfront
device backup runs; device state is diffed before/after (the suite fails
itself on any leak); every artifact is HGTEST-prefixed and torn down even
on failure. See tests/live/conftest.py for the full safety model and the
list of deliberately excluded verbs.
Acknowledgments
helixgen leans heavily on
sensorium/phelix — a
community-maintained, hand-curated repository of Helix block JSON files. The
helixgen bootstrap command clones phelix and ingests its blocks/
directory; without that pre-extracted catalog the cold-start experience of
this tool would be considerably worse.
Trademark notice
helixgen is an unofficial community project. Line 6, Helix, HX,
and related product names are trademarks of Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc.
helixgen is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Line 6 or
Yamaha. References in this project to Line 6 hardware, file formats (.hlx,
.hsp), and model identifiers are descriptive — helixgen generates files
intended to be compatible with Line 6 Helix devices but is not a Line 6
product.
If you are a representative of Line 6 / Yamaha and have concerns about this project's name or scope, please open an issue.
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