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Ve r s i o n 1.01 Us e r GU i d e

Getting Started With Your Hardware

GX KB37

UX1 UX2

Guitar

Port

POD X3

Family

PODXT

Family

POD Farm Basics

iLok

POD Farm

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Standalone

Operation

Online Resources

POD Farm

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Table of Contents

Start Here ................................................................................................1•1

About Line 6 Hardware & Software ..............................................................................1•1

System Requirements - POD Farm Plug-In & Standalone Operation .......................... 1•1

Updating & Registering with Line 6 Monkey ................................................................ 1•2

Product Activation & Authorization ............................................................................. 1•4

Transferring Activations ................................................................................................. 1•5

POD Farm Plug-In for iLok ............................................................................................ 1•6

Using Your Line 6 Hardware ...................................................................2•1

Making the Connection ................................................................................................. 2•1

GX (POD Studio & TonePort) ...................................................................................... 2•2

UX1 (POD Studio & TonePort) .................................................................................... 2•3

UX2 (POD Studio & TonePort) .................................................................................... 2•4

TonePort UX8 ................................................................................................................. 2•6

TonePort KB37 ............................................................................................................. 2•10

TonePort DI .................................................................................................................. 2•11

GuitarPort ..................................................................................................................... 2•13

Using POD X3 Family Devices with Your Computer... ............................................... 2•14

POD X3 ......................................................................................................................... 2•15

POD X3 Live ................................................................................................................ 2•16

POD X3 Pro .................................................................................................................. 2•17

Using PODxt Family Devices with Your Computer... .................................................. 2•22

PODxt Live ................................................................................................................... 2•24

PODxt PRO .................................................................................................................. 2•25

PODxt - Audio Signal Routing & Re-Amping ............................................................ 2•26

Routing Audio From Your Line 6 Hardware to an External Device ............................ 2•27

ToneDirect™ Monitoring .............................................................................................. 2•28

Sound Cards & Sound Issues ........................................................................................ 2•30

Line 6 Driver Panel & Recording ............................................................3•1

Audio Routing ................................................................................................................ 3•1

The Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog ....................................................................... 3•1

Windows® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog ........................................................... 3•2

Mac® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog ................................................................. 3•13

Important Things to Know for Recording .................................................................... 3•25

POD Farm Plug-In ...................................................................................4•1

Windows

A Quickie Plug-In Primer ............................................................................................... 4•1

64 Bit Support ............................................................................................... 4•1

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Plug-In Parameter Automation ...................................................................................... 4•2

Supported Plug-In Formats ............................................................................................. 4•3

Activating the Plug-In .................................................................................................... 4•3

Plug-In User Interface Overview .................................................................................... 4•4

Main Control Bar ...........................................................................................................4•4

View Selection Buttons .................................................................................................. 4•6

Gear View ....................................................................................................................... 4•6

Panel View ...................................................................................................................... 4•7

Presets View .................................................................................................................. 4•11

Signal Flow View .......................................................................................................... 4•14

POD Farm Standalone Operation .........................................................5•1

ToneDirect™ Monitoring .............................................................................................. 5•1

Input Source Select & Input Metering .......................................................................... 5•2

Tuner View ...................................................................................................................... 5•3

Mixer View ..................................................................................................................... 5•4

Preferences ...................................................................................................................... 5•6

Saving Tones ................................................................................................................... 5•8

Model Gallery ...........................................................................................6•1

About the Model Gallery ............................................................................................... 6•3

Guitar Amp & Cab Models ............................................................................................ 6•3

Bass Amp & Cab Models.............................................................................................. 6•11

Preamp Models ............................................................................................................. 6•14

Effects Models ............................................................................................................... 6•15

Model List ..................................................................................................................... 6•25

How To... ....................................................................................................7•1

Troubleshooting .......................................................................................8•1

What Is… ..................................................................................................9•1

Online Help & Support ........................................................................ 10•1

Line 6, POD, PODxt, POD X3, POD Farm, POD Farm Plug-In, TonePort, GearBox, GearBox Plug-In, Line 6 Monkey, ToneDirect Monitoring, GuitarPort, FBV, Variax, Line 6 Edit and Custom Tone are trademarks of Line 6, Inc. All other product names, trademarks, and artists’ names are the property of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or afﬁliated with Line 6.

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St a r t He r e

About Line 6 Hardware & Software

OK, you’ve got your guitar, a computer and a head full of songs and cool licks, so how do you get this all going? You’re just a few steps away from turning your computer into a serious tone, jamming and recording machine. First, here is some valuable information on getting started, and to ensure you have all the latest and greatest updates….

System Requirements - POD Farm Plug-In & Standalone Operation

Windows

Pentium 4 -1.2GHz or better (2.5 GHz or better, or multi-core CPU recommended)•

Windows• Windows® Vista® X64

512 MB RAM minimum (1 GB or more recommended)•

1 GB free hard disk space minimum (10 GB or more recommended for recording)•

Drive speed 5400 rpm minimum (7200 rpm or faster recommended)•

1024 x 768 minimum screen display resolution•

CD-ROM drive•

One free USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible port on computer (USB hubs are not supported for Line 6 • devices)

Internet connection for online features•

Compatible Line 6 USB hardware or iLok (device must be connected to computer & authorized • to use POD Farm):

POD Farm Plug-In• - POD Studio, TonePort, GuitarPort, POD X3, PODxt hardware, or iLok

POD Farm Standalone Operation• - POD Studio, TonePort, or GuitarPort hardware

XP® (with SP2 or SP3), Windows® XP® X64, Windows® Vista® (including SP1),

Mac

Intel or Power PC based G4 1.5 GHz or better (G4 1.67 or better, or multi-core CPU • recommended)

OS X 10.4 or later •

512 MB RAM minimum (1 GB or more recommended)•

1GB free hard disk space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)•

Drive speed 5400 rpm minimum (7200 rpm or faster recommended)•

1024 x 768 minimum screen display resolution•

CD-ROM drive•

One free USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible port on computer (USB hubs are not supported for Line 6 • devices)

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Internet connection for online features•

Compatible Line 6 USB hardware or iLok (device must be connected to computer & authorized • to use POD Farm):

POD Farm Plug-In• - POD Studio, TonePort, GuitarPort, POD X3, PODxt hardware, or iLok

POD Farm Standalone Operation• - POD Studio, TonePort, or GuitarPort hardware

Windows 64 Bit support

If you have a 64 bit Windows PC, then no worries! POD Farm 1.0 and the included Line 6 USB hardware drivers do indeed support Windows® XP® x64 and Windows® Vista® 64-Bit systems. Note that POD Farm 1.0 (as well as the POD Farm Plug-in) still runs as a 32 bit application, but has been made compatible to run on these Windows 64 bit operating systems. If you need to check the speciﬁc system requirements or need some assistance with installing POD Farm on your computer, please refer to the additional documents located on the POD Farm Online Help page of the Line 6 web site.

Updating & Registering with Line 6 Monkey

Attention iLok users... You won’t need to run Line 6 Monkey. Obtaining and authorizing a POD Farm Plug-In license for an iLok USB key has its own simple, online process that you can perform on any Internet-connected computer. Please skip ahead to the POD Farm for iLok section for details.

Line 6 Monkey is the intelligent updater utility automatically installed with your POD Farm application. It is highly recommended that you run Line 6 Monkey at the end of your POD Farm installation, and to do so often to be sure you have all the latest updates for all your Line 6 software and hardware products. Registering your Line 6 hardware is also very important because it ensures that you’re dialed in for warranty service and makes it possible for us to contact you if new software versions or other cool enhancements are offered - cutting edge technology and such! So don’t put this off any longer. Connect your Line 6 hardware to your computer and follow these steps to launch Line 6 Monkey...

On Mac•

On Windows•

, go to Applications - Line 6.

, go to the Start button menu - Programs - Line 6 - Tools.

You’ll need to Login so that Line 6 Monkey can communicate with the online Line 6 Server and provide you with exactly what you need. It’s just a few clicks, and it’s free!

If you have a Line 6 account, then type in your User Name and Password at the top of the • Monkey dialog.

If you have not yet created an account, click the New User button and you’ll be walked right • through the steps.

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If you have not already done so, you’ll be prompted to Register your connected Line 6 hardware. It’s a painless process really, so click that Register Now button and ﬁll in the blanks on the Web page. This page will list all your registered Line 6 gear in one place.

Grab Those Updates

Go to the Updates tab in Line 6 Monkey. If you see any items where a newer, updated version is available, then you should click on that item and let the little monkey fellow walk you through the installation steps. This is the easiest way to stay current on the latest POD Farm software updates, as well as drivers and ﬁrmware updates. You can check the Optional Add-Ons* tab to see what other goodies might be available for your speciﬁc Line 6 device too.

*Note - Some Line 6 hardware models already include the POD Farm Plug-In, and/or other Add-Ons for free. You’ll need to “activate” these items by running Line 6 Monkey - see the following section.

Purchasing POD Farm Plug-In

POD Farm Plug-In is of course already included with the new POD Studio hardware. But if you own a Line 6 TonePort, GuitarPort, POD X3 or PODxt device, then you can purchase the POD Farm Plug-In as an Add-On. Just click on the Optional Add-Ons tab in Line 6 Monkey, select POD Farm Plug-In, then click on Purchase Add-Ons.

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You will be taken to the Line 6 Store, where you can purchase a license for the plug-in. Follow the instructions on the resulting page to receive your activation key. Or, just head on over to the Line 6

site any time and see what is “in Store” for you.

Product Activation & Authorization

Some features of POD Farm and your Line 6 hardware require “Activation” using Line 6 Monkey and a live Internet connection. As mentioned above, POD Studio and some other Line 6 devices include one or more Add-Ons already “installed” on the hardware device itself. When you connect your Line 6 device and launch Line 6 Monkey for the ﬁrst time, if you are prompted to press the “Activate Features” button, then go ahead and do so to activate the included Add-On(s).

If you’ve purchased additional Add-Ons from the Line 6 Online Store - these also need to be activated. You will have received a License Key for each Add-On purchase. To activate purchased Add-ons, launch Line 6 Monkey, go to the Optional Add-Ons tab, and then follow these steps...

You can ﬁnd all Add-On license keys you’ve purchased by logging into the • Line 6 - My Account online page, and looking in the License Keys page.

Copy the numerical License key code that appears on this page.•

Go back to the Line 6 Monkey screen and click on the • Activate Purchase button. A window will pop up, prompting you to enter the activation key you just received.

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Activation turns the Add-On features “on” in your POD Farm-compatible hardware, so they can • operate in the POD Farm stand-alone application and/or POD Farm Plug-in.

When using your Line 6 USB hardware on a new computer for the ﬁrst time, you may also see the following message at the top of the Add-Ons tab - just click the Authorize button to ﬁnish conﬁguring your computer to use your new hardware and Add-Ons.

Just remember that for POD Farm Plug-in operation, your Line 6 hardware must always be connected via USB (even if you’re using a 3rd-party interface). You don’t necessarily need to be using your Line 6 hardware as your active USB audio device - it just needs to be USB-connected (and powered on for units that have a power switch).

Transferring Activations

So, you’ve just upgraded your computer to the latest and greatest (this week anyway…) model, and want to move POD Farm and your Add-Ons to your new system? In this section, we’ll explain how to make the transfer process as easy as A-B-C, whether the new computer can connect to the Internet or not.

The destination computer has an Internet connection

This is the easiest scenario: Download and install the POD Farm application (always available at line6.

com/software). This will also install the necessary drivers for your hardware and the Line 6 Monkey

application.

POD Farm Plug-in doesn’t work!!! Where are my Model Packs??? Relax – Your Add-Ons (Model Packs, Plug-in, etc…) are tied-in to your hardware’s, built-in Electronic Serial Number (ESN), but also need to be authorized with each new computer you’ll be using POD Farm on. In other words, they work but just haven’t been enabled on the new computer yet.

Launch Line 6 Monkey. The Monkey utility will connect to the server and scan your hardware for any activated Add-ons, and if it ﬁnds any, will display the following message in red text:

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Just click Authorize, and Monkey will enable the use of your activated Add-On(s) on the new computer system.

The destination computer lacks an Internet connection

So you just got the call from Mr. Big Time Producer for a session at so-and-so’s studio, and you want to bring all this great Line 6 tone along for tracking – but their computer does not connect to the Internet. You can still move your POD Farm activation to their recording environment by following these steps:

Prerequisite - This may seem obvious but we’ll mention it anyway: Your hardware and all POD Farm software and Add-ons must already be activated and authorized on your own computer (meaning, an Internet connection is required and has been used for the initial activation of your POD Farm assets).

On your computer:

Locate and copy all • .aet ﬁles to removable media (burn to a CD, copy to a Flash drive, etc…). In Windows® environments, these ﬁles can be found in the C:\Document_and_Settings\

(username)\Application Data\Line 6\GuitarPort folder; on Mac®, look in /Users/(username)/ Library/Application Support/Line 6/GuitarPort.

Copy the POD Farm installer to removable media, since the destination computer will not be • able to download it.

On the destination computer:

Install the POD Farm software. •

Copy the • .aet ﬁles from your removable media into the correct folder (described above). You may have to create this folder manually if it isn’t present on your destination computer.

You’re done! You should now be able to launch the POD Farm application with all Add-Ons enabled.

POD Farm Plug-In for iLok

POD Farm Plug-In is a protected software and requires an authorized license to run on your computer. The POD Farm Plug-In license comes with, or can be added to, all the Line 6 USB audio interfaces, as discussed in the Line 6 Monkey and Hardware sections of this User Guide. And now, Line 6 also offers the POD Farm Plug-In license to be purchased speciﬁcally for your iLok USB “smart key”! If

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you don’t already have an iLok key, you can purchase one at most store where audio software is sold, or directly from iLok.com. To follow are the steps for purchasing and conﬁguring POD Farm Plug-In and your iLok.

What is an iLok?

The iLok key is a proprietary USB hardware dongle that holds licenses for software protected by PACE Anti-Piracy’s Interlok® system.

The iLok USB Key

If you own an iLok and purchase the POD Farm Plug-In for iLok, you can use the iLok USB key to store your POD Farm Plug-In license, as well as any other Mac® and Windows® iLok-enabled software licenses, all on the one iLok USB key. The iLok is portable and allows you to run POD Farm Plug-In on any computer. It is also easy to manage all your iLok software licenses with iLok.com - where you can set up a secure account, view all licenses on your iLok key, take delivery of new licenses, and even move them between multiple iLok keys!

Create an iLok Account

If you’ve just purchased a new iLok, your ﬁrst step is to go to the iLok.com site to set up an account. Note that it is important you set up only ONE account, even if you own multiple iLok keys! Create your account here. If you already have an iLok account, then you’ll use it for the following steps.

Next, for a new iLok USB key, you’ll need to download the iLok Client Software and the iLok Driver and install them. There are a few different options here, depending if you want to manage your iLok on the same computer as you plan on actually using POD Farm Plug-in on or not. Please see the steps outlined on the iLok.com Help page for the complete instructions.

Purchasing POD Farm Plug-In for iLok

If you don’t already have one, create a Line 6 account now. It is free and is necessary for activating and retrieving your POD Farm Plug-In license. To create your account, go here.

To purchase the POD Farm Plug-In license for iLok, you can go the Line 6 Online Store and select the iLok hardware option, or visit your favorite music gear retailer and pick up the boxed version. (Note that the iLok USB software key is sold separately, and not part of the Line 6 POD Farm Plug-In purchase). There are a few options for the purchase of POD Farm Plug-In for iLok...

POD Farm• - Includes the same great set of guitar & bass amps, mic preamps and effects that come with our POD Studio devices.

POD Farm Platinum• - Includes all the models of the POD Farm product, and additionally includes all the optional Model Pack Add-Ons we make!

POD Farm Platinum Upgrade• - For owners of the POD Farm iLok version that want to step up to the Platinum, you can purchase this upgrade.

All POD Farm Plug-In versions include RTAS/VST/AU support for Mac® and RTAS/VST support for Windows®. See the info on the Online Store pages for more details.

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If you’ve purchased the POD Farm iLok license from the Line 6 Online Store, please skip ahead to the following iLok Deposit section, since your purchase does not require the “Activation” steps.

Note: You can perform the following Online Purchase, Activation and iLok licensing processes on any computer that has Internet access - These steps do not necessarily need to be performed on the computer on which you plan to use POD Farm Plug-In.

Product Activation (Retail boxed version only)

For your purchase of the boxed POD Farm license for iLok, you’ll ﬁnd an Activation Code printed on a card within the box. With this card in hand, go to the Line 6 Online iLok Activation page, read through the steps in the Product Activation section, and enter your Activation Code and click Submit:

Next you’ll be prompted for the iLok User ID for your iLok.com account...

Enter your iLok User ID - This is the Username you use to login to your account at iLok.com. Type it in and click Continue.

Next you are prompted to verify that your iLok User ID is entered correctly - Please be sure it is to avoid the added task of contacting iLok to ﬁx it! Click Conﬁrm & Submit if all is correct. Once the process completes, a POD Farm license is “Deposited” in your iLok.com account. Proceed to the iLok.

com website to download the license to your iLok USB key. Please skip to the iLok License section.

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iLok Deposit (Line 6 Online Store purchase)

If you’ve purchased POD Farm Plug-In for iLok directly from the Line 6 Online Store... Once your transaction is complete, log into your Line6.com account and go to the iLok Deposits page. Here you can check the Status of your iLok License.

Initially, following your Online Store transaction, you should see the Status listed here as “inserted”, as shown above. Click the Deposit button to proceed.

Next you are prompted to enter your iLok User ID - This is the Username you use to login to your account at iLok.com. Type it in and click Continue.

You are then asked to verify the iLok User ID is entered correctly - Please be sure it is to avoid the added task of contacting iLok to ﬁx it! Click Conﬁrm & Submit if all is correct. You should next see conﬁrmation that your iLok Deposit was successful and your license sent to iLok.com. Head on over to the iLok.com website and log into your account there to download your license. If any error was encountered, you can return to the iLok Deposits page and repeat the process.

iLok License

Once logged in to your iLok.com account, you should ﬁnd your “pending” POD Farm license waiting for you in the Download Licenses section.

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Connect your iLok to your USB port and follow the instructions on the iLok site to Synchronize your iLok key.

Allow the Synchronize process to complete, and you’ll then be able to select your POD Farm license for download.

Follow the steps listed on the iLok.com page to Download the POD Farm License to your iLok key... And you’re done! Now that your iLok USB key is all conﬁgured, you can log out and exit the iLok web site. Your next step is to download the POD Farm application installer and run it on any Mac® or Windows® computer where you want to run POD Farm Plug-In! Remember, you need to have the iLok key connected to the computer for POD Farm Plug-In to run in its “authorized” state within your host software.

In the event that your POD Farm license does not appear on your iLok.com account, you can check the status of the deposit on the iLok Deposits page of your Line 6 account.

Note that the Status may initially appear as “queued” for a short time until accepted by iLok.com for processing. Once it appears as “deposited”, as shown above, then this means your new POD Farm license asset has been sent to your iLok.com account.

Download and POD Farm Application Installer

We always have the latest POD Farm installer available for free download on the Line 6 Downloads page. On the Downloads page, select “iLok” as the Product, “POD Farm” as the Software, and then select your computer’s Operating System (Mac® OS X, Windows® XP® or Vista®), as shown here:

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Then press the “Go” button and the correct installer will be displayed for your system so that you can download it to your computer. Once the download of the installer ﬁle completes, run the installer ﬁle following its step-by-step instructions.

Windows® XP® and Vista® users... When you see the Choose Hardware Type screen during the POD Farm installation, be sure to check the box for “POD Farm iLok”, as shown here:

If you are also going to be using any Line 6 USB audio device (POD Studio, TonePort, POD X3, PODxt or GuitarPort) then you’ll want to check the “POD Farm for Line 6 Devices” box as well.

Mac® Users... The POD Farm installer’s default settings will install the necessary ﬁles for your iLok, as well as the audio drivers for any Line 6 USB audio devices automatically. If desired, you can uncheck any individual POD Farm Plug-In formats and/or Line 6 Device Drivers that you may not need. But you will need to install at least one POD Farm Plug-In format supported by your host audio software so that you will be able to use POD Farm Plug-In with your iLok:

For further assistance with POD Farm installation, check out the Installer Guide document available at POD Farm Online Help. With the above steps completed, you’ll be able to access and utilize POD Farm Plug-In in your host audio software! You are, of course, free to use any audio type of audio interface with your DAW conﬁguration. Please see the POD Farm Plug-In chapter for more info.

Note that POD Farm cannot be run in Standalone Operation with the iLok alone, since this requires the use of a Line 6 POD Studio, TonePort or GuitarPort USB audio interface.

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US i n g Y o U r Li n e 6 Ha r d w a r e

The POD Farm software is designed to work with the new Line 6 POD Studio family of USB audio interfaces. Additionally, a POD Farm Plug-In license can purchased for an iLok USB “smart key”. POD Farm also supports all Line 6 TonePort (models GX, UX1, UX2, UX8, D.I. & KB37) and GuitarPort USB devices. All Line 6 POD X3 and PODxt family devices can be used with the POD Farm Plug-

In Add-On as well! This chapter includes details on using POD Farm with all Line 6 USB hardware.

Please be sure to see the additional documentation on the POD Farm Online Help site.

All Line 6 USB audio interfaces utilize the high-performance Line 6 Audio & MIDI drivers, and therefore, are easily conﬁgured to work as your computer’s sound card. This means that you can access all your POD Tones directly from most any audio recording application, all at the highest quality! But you are of course not just limited to using your Line 6 hardware to record into your computer – the outputs provided on the back of your device additionally allow you to feed your POD Farm signal to external tape machines, DAT recorders, PA systems, or any other external audio hardware!

If you are using an iLok USB smart key to run POD Farm Plug-In, then you are, of course, free to use any audio interface with your computer and audio software. Once you have your POD Farm license successfully added to your iLok key, just keep the iLok in your USB port and you can skip ahead to the

POD Farm Plug-In chapter.

Making the Connection

You do need to connect your Line 6 hardware to your computer via a USB cable to utilize POD Farm, POD Farm Plug-In and/or to use your Line 6 hardware as your computer’s sound card device. Note that you should always connect to a separate USB controller channel from other USB audio or MIDI interfaces to provide your device with the full USB bandwidth. You should also always connect directly to a USB 1.1 or 2.0 USB port on your computer and not into a USB hub.

Note - Be sure to always power off or mute your speakers or monitoring setup before connecting and disconnecting the USB cable between your Line 6 device and computer, as well as before booting up or shutting down your computer if the device is already connected. The best practice is to always power on your speakers last, and power them off ﬁrst when connected to other audio gear to avoid a “pop” which could be damaging to your speakers (or to your ears!)

There are some differences in the setup and functionality between the supported Line 6 devices, so be sure to look for the instructions in the following sections for your speciﬁc device. Primarily, POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort devices function quite similarly since all the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is performed on your computer when using these units. POD X3 & PODxt devices do all their DSP magic inside the POD hardware itself. Use the handy links here to jump directly to the section covering your Line 6 device...

UX1

UX2

TonePort UX8

TonePort KB37

TonePort DI

GuitarPort

POD X3 Family Devices

PODxt Family Devices

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GX (POD Studio & TonePort)

Connect your electric Guitar or Bass

Instrument Input - To input your electric guitar or bass, plug it in here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. When in POD Farm Standalone operation, this inputs the signal into POD Farm, where you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal both to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and directly to the GX hardware outputs.

Connect your stereo Headphones/Line Out Cable

Connect USB cable from here to your computer

USB - This of course is where you connect the supplied USB cable to GX, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.

Line Out/Phones - Connect here to either a monitoring system or stereo headphones, using an 1/8inch stereo cable. When connecting GX as an audio interface for your recording application, this line out/headphone jack outputs the playback audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into the Instrument input. If you ‘re using a 3rd-party audio interface, these outputs supply the ToneDirect™ magic to your interface or mixer, when using POD Farm in Standalone operation alongside the plug-in. See the ToneDirect™ Monitoring section for more details.

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UX1 (POD Studio & TonePort)

Connect your electric guitar or bass

Connect a microphone

Mic - To input a signal from a microphone, connect it here using an XLR cable. When in POD Farm Standalone operation, this inputs the microphone signal into POD Farm, where you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal both to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and directly to the UX1 hardware outputs.

Instrument Input - To input your electric guitar or bass, plug it in here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. When in POD Farm Standalone operation, this inputs the signal into POD Farm where you can choose your tone, and then route the processed signal both to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and directly to the UX1 hardware outputs.

Connect your stereo headphones

Phones - If you want to listen to the audio from UX1 using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Outs on the rear panel; the audio from your audio software, as well as anything plugged into any front panel input.

Connect any line level input source for monitoring to the Stereo

Connect a USB cable from here to your computer’s USB port

Connect the Analog Outs to your audio monitors

Line Inputs - To record the signal from a line level source, such as a keyboard, your stereo receiver, the line out from a mixing console, etc., connect to these Left and Right ins using 1/4-inch TS audio cables.

Monitor In

Connect any line level input source that you want to record into the Line Inputs

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Monitor In - If you want to hear the signal from a line level source along with all the other audio coming from your computer, but do not want this audio recorded via the UX1 Record Sends, then plug the source in here. Note that this is a stereo jack, so you should use a stereo, 1/4-inch TRS audio cable for this connection.

USB - This of course is where you connect the supplied USB cable to UX1, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.

Analog Outs - These Left and Right unbalanced jacks output all the audio from UX1; the audio from your audio software on the computer, and anything plugged into any input. These are what you want to connect to your powered speakers or monitoring system for a recording setup. Use 1/4-inch TS cables to connect directly to powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the headphone jack on the front of UX1 if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

UX2 (POD Studio & TonePort)

Connect your electric Guitar or Bass Connect up to two Microphones

Connect your stereo Headphones

Microphone Inputs - You can receive input from one or two mics at the same time using these ins. There is also a +48V Phantom Power switch that you should set to “on” if your mic requires phantom power (most condenser type mics do, but check the documentation for your mic if you are not sure). Connect each mic using an XLR cable. When in POD Farm Standalone operation, this inputs each microphone signal independently into POD Farm where you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and to the UX2 Analog Outs.

Instrument Inputs -To input your electric guitar or bass, plug it into one of these inputs. When in POD Farm Standalone operation, either of these routes the instrument’s signal into POD Farm where you can choose your tone, and then route the processed signal to the Record Sends (and to your audio software) and to the UX2 Analog Outs. The difference between these two input jacks is:

Norm• – This input is for a standard instrument level output. Plug your guitar/bass into here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable.

Pad • - This input is designed for high output level basses and guitars, especially those with active pickups. Plug your high output instrument into here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable.

Headphone - If you want to listen to the audio from UX2 using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This Headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Outs on the rear panel; the audio from your audio software, as well as anything plugged into any UX2 input.

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Connect to the S/PDIF input of an external device to send UX2’s output digitally

Connect any line level input source for monitoring to the Stereo Monitor In

Connect the Analog Outs to your audio monitors

Line Inputs - If you want to record the signal from a line level source, such as a keyboard, your stereo receiver, the line out from a mixing console, etc., connect to these Left and Right ins using 1/4-inch TS audio cables.

USB - This of course is where you connect the supplied USB cable to UX2, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.

Connect your USB cable from your computer’s USB port

Connect any line level input source that you want to record into the Line Inputs

S/PDIF Digital Out - To send the output of UX2 to an external device digitally, connect a 75-Ohm coaxial cable into this RCA jack and then into the S/PDIF digital input on the external device. This is the best choice for connecting to digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder, MiniDisc, etc. This S/PDIF output sends the same audio as is sent to the Analog Outs (with the exception that any audio coming into the Monitor In jack is not routed to the S/PDIF output). The digital signal is always sent at 24-bit resolution.

Analog Outs - These Left and Right unbalanced jacks output all the audio from UX2; the audio from your DAW, and anything plugged into any input. These are what you want to connect to your powered speakers or monitoring system for a recording setup. Use 1/4-inch TS cables to connect directly to powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the headphone jack on the front of UX2 if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

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TonePort UX8

TonePort UX8 is a multichannel recording interface designed for professional use, offering plenty of headroom, a wide dynamic range and an exceedingly low noise ﬂoor. Designed with high quality electrical components and a rugged exterior, UX8 is built to provide many years of reliability.

UX8 can be used with the POD Farm Plug-In, providing all your DAW tracks with same POD quality Tone trusted by scores of platinum-selling musicians and recording engineers!

Rear Panel Features

Balanced Outputs

UX8 provides 8 balanced analog outputs (4 stereo pairs). For the cleanest audio signal, use 1/4-inch TRS cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup.

Note that you can use each output pair to provide different monitor mixes for musicians during a tracking session. You can set the input mix levels for each output pair using the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices application.

S/PDIF Digital Audio

To send or receive S/PDIF, connect a 75-Ohm coaxial cable to the UX8’s RCA jack and the external S/PDIF device. This is the best choice for connecting to digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder, MiniDisc, etc. This S/PDIF output sends the same audio as Main Outs 1-2. The digital signal

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is always received and sent at 24 bit. To sync to an external S/PDIF device, set the UX8 clock to sync to S/PDIF in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices application.

USB 2.0

This of course is where you connect a USB cable to UX8, with the other end going to one of your computer’s USB 2.0 ports.

Line Level and XLR Inputs

8 unbalanced line level inputs are available for recording line level sources, such as a keyboard, stereo receiver, the line out from a mixing console, etc. Connect to line level inputs using 1/4-inch TS audio cables.

8 XLR preamp inputs are provided for balanced and mic input sources. +48v Phantom Power switches are located on the front panel for mics requiring phantom power (most condenser type mics do, but check the documentation for your mic if you are not sure). Connect to these inputs using XLR cables.

Front Panel Features

Guitar/Bass Inputs

High-Z instrument inputs for guitar and bass are conveniently located on the front panel, • providing convenient access for fast instrument switching.

-20 dB pad switches provide attenuation for hot levels, typically for instruments with onboard • preamps or active pickups.

UX8’s instrument inputs work directly with POD Farm when in Standalone Operation to provide • ToneDirect™ Monitoring, which provides a fully processed signal with ultra-low latency, critical for tracking with the desired sound.

Note that the Tones from POD Farm in Standalone operation will show up in your recording application as Record Sends 9-10 and 11-12. Use the Mixer View in POD Farm Standalone operation to conﬁgure the level and type of audio you want fed to these Record Sends (Tone 1, Tone 2, Mix of Tone 1 &

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2, as well as Processed, Semi-Processed, or Dry Input). You’ll also see four additional Record Sends in your recording application for UX8 (Sends 1-2 thru 7-8). These Sends are fed directly by UX8’s analog inputs 1 – 8. You can simultaneously record the direct, unprocessed signal from any of these Sends for later processing using POD Farm Plug-In! For more info, check out the POD Farm Standalone

Operation chapter.

Microphone Input Controls

Rear panel XLR input levels are controlled by a row of Trim knobs on the front panel. Use these inputs for microphones or balanced input signals with a gain range of 0 dB to 45 dB.

Each XLR input has a -20 dB pad switch, which can be used to provide more headroom for high output microphones. A 75 Hz cutoff switch is also provided, useful for eliminating low frequency rumble from microphone sources.

Two +48v phantom power switches are provided for powered mics, such as condenser mics. Phantom power is distributed via two XLR input banks, permitting the option to run dynamic mics in a nonpowered bank.

Signal and Clip LEDs

Signal and Clip LEDs exist for each input. The signal LED lights up when signal activity is present, glowing brighter as the signal level increases. When the input level reaches the 0 dBfs, the clip LED lights up momentarily.

VU Meter and Clip Display

UX8 provides a stereo pair of large VU meters on the front panel. By default, these meters display Inputs 1-2 levels. Using the Inputs & Recording Tab of the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices application, you can assign the hardware meters to display input and output levels of any stereo pair or POD Farm Record Send. The clip LEDs light up when the signal reaches 0 dBfs.

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Main Output Level Controls

Main Outputs 1-2 are controlled by a main volume knob and main mute button. The volume knob is an analog level control and does not affect any level being sent to your computer. When Mute is engaged, as solid amber LED illuminates, blinking about once every 2 seconds.

Note that these controls operate on main outputs 1-2 only (headphone and S/PDIF levels are not affected). Outputs 3 – 8 are software controlled, via the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices application.

Headphone Output Controls

Headphone outputs 1-2 and 3-4 provide duplicate stereo outputs or Main Outs 1-2 and 3-4 respectively, providing discrete control over output levels sent over the headphone jacks. Note that headphone output levels are controlled independently of the Main volume control.

Power Button

When the power button is engaged, UX8’s main LEDs will illuminate. UX8 is not USB powered and receives no power from the computer.

LED status indicators

The Main Mute and Main Clip LEDs provide secondary functions in their ability to indicate the connection status of USB and S/PDIF, as follows:

No USB connection - The main clip LEDs alternate steadily between left and right, about once • every second. The USB cable may be unplugged or the UX8 Line 6 audio driver may not be installed on your computer.

The Line 6 audio driver is installed with the POD Farm applications installer - or you can launch Line 6

Monkey

and go to the Updates tab to check for and install the latest driver version.

No S/PDIF clock sync - The Mute LED blinks 3 times rapidly about once every second when the • clock mode set to S/PDIF, and no external clock is present.

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TonePort KB37

Connect any line level input source for monitoring to the Stereo Monitor In

POD Farm 1.01 – Using Your Line 6 Hardware

Connect any line level input source that you want to record into the Line Inputs

Connect your electric Guitar or Bass

Connect your stereo Headphones

Connect the Analog Outs to your monitor system

Microphone Inputs - You can receive input from one or two mics at the same time using these ins. There is also a +48V Phantom Power switch that you should toggle to “on” if your mic requires phantom power (most condenser type mics do, but check the documentation for your mic if you are not sure). Connect each mic using an XLR cable. When using POD Farm in Standalone operation, this inputs each microphone signal independently into POD Farm, where you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and to the Analog Outs.

Instrument Input - To connect your electric guitar or bass, plug it into this input. When using POD Farm in Standalone operation, this inputs the signal into POD Farm, where you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and to the Analog Outs.

This input also features a Pad switch; engage this switch when using a guitar/bass with high-output or active pickups, to avoid overdriving the input.

Headphones - If you want to listen to the audio from KB37 using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This Headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Outs on the rear panel; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into any KB37 input.

Connect up to two Microphones

Connect to the S/PDIF input of an external device to send TonePort’s output digitally

Connect your USB cable from your computer’s USB port

USB - This of course is where you connect a USB cable to KB37, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.

S/PDIF Digital Out - To send the output of KB37 to an external device digitally, connect a 75-Ohm coaxial cable into this RCA jack and then into the S/PDIF digital input on the external device. This is the best choice for connecting to digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder, MiniDisc, etc. This S/PDIF output sends the same audio as is sent to KB37’s Analog Outs (with the exception that

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any audio coming into the Monitor In jack is not routed to the S/PDIF output). The digital signal is always sent at 24-bit resolution.

Monitor In - If you want to hear the signal from a line level source mixed with all the other audio coming from your computer, but do not want this audio recorded via the POD Farm Record Sends, then plug the source in here. Note that this is a stereo jack, so you should use a stereo 1/4-inch TRS audio cable for this connection.

Analog Outs - These Left and Right balanced jacks output all the audio from KB37; the audio from your DAW, and anything plugged into any KB37 input. So, these are what you want to connect to your monitoring system when using KB37 as your computer’s sound card. Use either 1/4-inch TS or TRS cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the headphone jack if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

TonePort DI

Connect your electric Guitar or Bass

Instrument Input - To connect your electric guitar or bass, plug it into this input. When using POD Farm in Standalone operation, this connection routes the instrument’s signal into POD Farm where you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal to the Record Sends (to your audio software) and to the Analog Outs. This input also features a Pad switch; engage this switch when using a guitar/bass with high-output or active pickups, to avoid overdriving the input.

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Connect to your 3rd-party audio Connect your stereo Headphones

interface’s input for “dry” recording

Analog Line Outs – connect

Connect a USB cable from here to your computer

to your powered speakers or mixer

USB - This of course is where you connect a USB cable to TonePort DI, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.

Phones - If you want to listen to the audio from TonePort DI using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Outs on the rear panel; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into the Instrument Input.

D.I. Out - This analog connection lets you record an unprocessed signal to your DAW audio track, to which you can apply POD Farm Plug-In. If you use a 3rd-party audio interface (such as a Digidesign Mbox, for example), connect the D.I. Out to one of its inputs, and record the “dry” signal into your audio software, while still having the ability to hear your POD Farm “processed” signal through TonePort D.I.’s Analog Outs.

Analog Outputs - These Left and Right unbalanced jacks are your main outputs and carry all the audio from TonePort D.I.; the audio from your audio software on the computer, and anything plugged into D.I.’s Instrument input. These are what you want to connect to your powered speakers or monitoring system if you are using TonePort D.I. as your primary audio interface for your recording software. If you are using a 3rd-party audio interface, these outputs supply the ToneDirect™ magic to your interface or mixer, when using the POD Farm application alongside the plug-in. See the ToneDirect™ Monitoring section for more details.

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GuitarPort

Analog Line Outs – connect to your powered speakers or mixer

Monitor In – connect a line level, stereo output (from your stereo, MP3 player, etc).

Analog Line Outs - These Left and Right RCA jacks output all audio signals; the audio from your DAW, and anything plugged into any the Instrument or Monitor inputs. So, these are what you want to connect to your monitoring system when using GuitarPort as your computer’s sound card. Use shielded RCA to RCA tipped cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the headphone jack on GuitarPort if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

Headphones - If you want to listen using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/8-inch stereo jack. This Headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Line Outs; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into the Instrument or Line inputs.

Connect your stereo headphones

Connect USB cable from here to your computer

Monitor In - If you want to hear the signal from a line level source mixed with all the other audio coming from your computer, but do not want this audio recorded, then plug the source in here. Note that this is a stereo jack, so you should use a stereo 1/8-inch tipped stereo audio cable for this connection. You’ll hear any audio coming into this jack via the Analog Line Outs and Phones, but it won’t be fed to GuitarPort’s Record Sends.

USB - This is where you connect the supplied USB cable to GuitarPort, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.

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Using POD X3 Family Devices with Your Computer...

If you own a POD X3, POD X3 Live or POD X3 Pro, then you can also reap the DAW beneﬁts with POD Farm Plug-In! To get the POD Farm Plug-In, as well as any other available “Add-Ons”, just connect POD X3 to your computer and run Line 6 Monkey to download, install and authorize the POD Farm software & Plug-In. Read more about Line 6 Monkey and this process here, or just head on over to the Line 6 Online Store.

You can also of course utilize POD X3 as a high performance sound card for your Windows® or Mac® computer, allowing you to record all those groovy POD X3 Tones, or even dry input signals, directly into your audio recording software. POD X3 devices offer four stereo Record Sends, which carry the following signals:

Record Send 1-2: Main Out (Studio/Direct Mix) •

Record Send 3-4: Tone 1 Only•

Record Send 5-6: Tone 2 Only•

Record Send 7-8: Tone 1 Inputs Dry (on Send 7) and Tone 2 Inputs Dry (on Send 8)•

POD Farm software does not function in Standalone operation with POD X3 family devices. Since all processing is done on your POD X3 hardware itself, you can call up your POD X3 tones and adjust settings on the device itself to feed whatever signal you want out the Record Sends for use with your DAW software!

To control the Monitor level of POD X3 independently of the Record Send levels, use the Monitor Level slider in the Inputs & Recording tab in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog on you computer (found in the System Preferences on Mac®, and in the Control Panel on Windows®).

Note - be sure to always power off or mute your speakers or monitoring setup before connecting/ disconnecting the USB cable and powering on/off POD X3, as well as before booting up or shutting down your computer if POD X3 is already connected. The best practice is to always power on your speakers last, and power them off ﬁrst when connected to other audio gear to avoid a “pop”.

The following sections cover the basic connections for using POD X3 family devices for recording. Use these links to jump to the section covering your speciﬁc POD X3 device:

POD X3 POD X3 Live POD X3 Pro

Be sure to also check out your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook and the additional documentation found on the POD Farm Online Help page of the Line 6 site.

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USB 2.0 - Connect to your computer

Left & Right Analog Outputs – Connect to your powered speakers or mixer

Phones - Connect your stereo Headphones

Input 1 (Instrument) – Connect your guitar or bass here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. POD X3 itself contains the processing power that turns your naked input signal into that roaring guitar Tone, which is then fed to the “Direct/Studio Mix”, out the Analog Left & Right Outputs, as well as fed to the S/PDIF digital output, and out the Record Sends digitally to your computer across the USB 2.0 connection. POD X3 is of course also capable of applying two Tones on your Input 1 - just dial up one of the tone presets in the “Blends” folder of POD X3 and you’ll have two complete Tones applied to your Input 1 signal! Or, go the POD X3’s Inputs screen to choose what you want Tone 1 and Tone 2 applied to.

S/PDIF Out - Connect to other S/PDIF devices

Input 2 - Connect your microphone

Input 1 - Connect your guitar or bass

Input 2 (Mic) & Trim knob – Connect a microphone here using a standard XLR cable. You can use the little “Trim” knob to adjust the mic signal coming into POD X3, much like you would on a mixer console. Just like with Input 1, POD X3 itself applies preamp and effects models to your mic input, which is then fed out the Analog Left & Right Outputs, as well as fed to the S/PDIF digital output, and out the Record Sends digitally to your computer across the USB 2.0 connection. POD X3 is of course also capable of applying a Dual-Tone, such as independently slathering a guitar Tone on Input 1, and a mic preamp and effects on Input 2 simultaneously! Just go to the “Pairs” folder of your POD X3 to call up some of these pre-baked guitar/mic Dual-Tones! Or, go the POD X3’s Inputs screen to choose what you want Tone 1 and Tone 2 applied to.

Phones - If you want to listen using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This Headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Line Outs; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into Inputs 1 &2.

Left & Right Outputs - These Left and Right ¼-inch jacks output all audio signals; the audio from your DAW, and anything plugged into any Inputs 1 & 2. So, these are what you want to connect to your monitoring system when using POD X3 as your computer’s sound card. Use shielded ¼-inch cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the Phones jack if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

USB - This is where you connect a USB cable from POD X3 to your computer’s 2.0 port. Of course your POD X3 is capable of processing your guitar Tone all by itself, but you’ll need to connect the USB

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cable to your computer to use it with POD Farm Plug-In, and/or to use POD X3 as your computer’s sound card device.

S/PDIF Digital Output - To send output from POD X3 to another device digitally, connect from this S/PDIF Dig Out to the S/PDIF in on your other device. Connecting digitally is the best choice for routing to external digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder or MiniDisc. The S/PDIF output sends out the Tone(s) according to your device settings - these options are found on the POD X3 device itself by pressing the “Outputs” button. The digital signal is always sent at 24-bit resolution.

POD X3 Live

Left & Right Direct Outs Use as a D.I. for recording or to the house mixer/P.A.

Left & Right Live Outs Connect to your powered speakers or mixer

Aux In - Connect a 2nd instrument

S/PDIF Out - Connect to other S/PDIF devices

USB 2.0 - Connect to your computer

Guitar in - Connect your guitar or bass

CD/MP3 In - Connect an audio player

Guitar In – Connect your guitar or bass here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. POD X3 itself contains the processing power that turns your naked input signal into that roaring guitar Tone, which is then fed to the “Direct/Studio Mix”, out the Analog Left & Right Outputs, as well as fed to the S/PDIF digital output, and out the Record Sends digitally to your computer across the USB 2.0 connection. POD X3 is of course also capable of applying two Tones on your Input 1 - just dial up one of the tone presets in the “Blends” folder of POD X3 and you’ll have two complete Tones applied to your Input 1 signal! Or, go the POD X3’s Inputs screen to choose what you want Tone 1 and Tone 2 applied to.

CD/MP3 Input – Connect a CD player, MP3 player, drum machine or other audio device into this stereo 1/8-inch jack and you’ll hear it at POD X3 Live’s Phones, Direct Out, and Live Out so you can jam along. Note that the audio coming into this input is not routed to the Record Sends, so it won’t be recorded.

Phones - If you want to listen to the audio using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This Headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Line Outs; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into the Guitar, Mic, Aux, Variax or CD/MP3 inputs.

Phones - Connect your stereo Headphones

Mic In & Trim - Connect

a Mic & adjust trim level

Variax In - Connect your Variax Guitar here

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Microphone Input & Trim knob – Connect a microphone here using a standard XLR cable. You can use the little “Trim” knob to adjust the mic signal coming into POD X3, much like you would on a mixer console. Just like with Input 1, POD X3 itself applies preamp and effects models to your mic input, which is then fed out the Analog Left & Right Outputs, as well as fed to the S/PDIF digital output, and out the Record Sends digitally to your computer across the USB 2.0 connection. POD X3 is of course also capable of applying a Dual-Tone, such as independently slathering a guitar Tone on Input 1, and a mic preamp and effects on Input 2 simultaneously! Just go to the “Pairs” folder of your POD X3 to call up some of these pre-baked guitar/mic Dual-Tones! Or, go the POD X3’s Inputs screen to choose what you want Tone 1 and Tone 2 applied to.

Variax In - Got yourself a Line 6 Variax guitar? Plug it in here for a direct digital audio connection between the guitar and POD X3 Live. The POD X3 Live Inputs screen is where you assign whether this input feeds Tone 1, Tone 2 or both.

Left & Right Live Outs - The unbalanced 1/4-inch connectors here get your POD X3 Live’s sound to a guitar ampliﬁer, recorder, mixer or PA system. Go to POD X3 Live’s Output screen to conﬁgure these outputs for Studio or Live use. In Studio Mode, they’re ready to plug into a recorder with unbalanced –10 dBV inputs. In Live Mode, they don’t have speaker simulation, and are ready for connection to an on-stage power amp. Whichever you choose, the front panel Master Volume knob determines how much signal you’ll get at these jacks. You can use either jack as a mono output.

Left & Right Direct Outs - These balanced XLR connectors always provide studio-quality sound with speaker/microphone/room simulation ideal for direct recording and as a direct send to the house mixer or PA when playing live. Go to POD X3 Live’s System page to disable the Master Volume control for these outputs, so you can independently make on-stage adjustments to the 1/4-inch “Live” outputs feeding an amp without affecting the levels sent to the house sound mixer or PA.

Aux Input – This mono, unbalanced 1/4-inch input can be used for a second guitar or just about any other instrument. Go to POD X3 Live’s Inputs screen to assign whether this input feeds Tone 1, Tone 2 or both.

S/PDIF Digital Output - To send output from POD X3 to another device digitally, connect from this S/PDIF Dig Out to the S/PDIF in on your other device. Connecting digitally is the best choice for routing to external digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder. The S/PDIF output sends out the Tone(s) according to your device settings - these options are found on the POD X3 device itself by pressing the “Outputs” button. The digital signal is always sent at 24-bit resolution. For more information on using these digital connections, please see your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook.

USB - This is where you connect a USB cable from POD X3 Live to your computer’s 2.0 port. Of course your POD X3 is capable of processing your guitar Tone all by itself, but you’ll need to connect the USB cable to your computer to use it with POD Farm Plug-In, and/or to use POD X3 Live as your computer’s sound card device.

POD X3 Pro

Guitar and Mic Input Channel Strips

POD X3 Pro offers two independent sets of inputs on the front left of the unit. Think of these as two identical sets of inputs, for which you can use the options on the POD X3 Pro’s Inputs page to determine whether these inputs feed Tone 1, Tone 2 or both. There are lots of possibilities here, since not only can you assign these inputs independently, but you can also do things such as apply

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two different tones at once on a single input, choose how to pan them, record them into your audio software, etc! For details about Single versus Dual Tone and other signal routing options, please refer to your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook.

Signal Present and Clip Indicator lights

Mic Input Trim knob

Phantom Power switch

Mic Input Low Cut Filter and Pad switches

Guitar In Pad switch

Mic Input - Connect your

Microphone

Guitar Input - Connect your guitar or bass

POD X3 Pro’s Input Channel Strips

Guitar Input – Connect up to two guitars or basses here in the 1/4-inch 1 and 2 inputs using standard TS instrument cables. POD X3 Pro itself contains the processing power that turns your naked input signal into that roaring guitar Tone, which is then fed to the “Direct/Studio Mix”, out the Analog Left & Right Live Outputs, as well as fed to the AES/EBU & S/PDIF digital outputs, and out the Record Sends digitally to your computer across the USB 2.0 connection. POD X3 is of course also capable of applying two Tones on your Input 1 - just dial up one of the tone presets in the “Blends” folder of POD X3 and you’ll have two complete Tones applied to your channel strip 1 input signal! Or, go the POD X3’s Inputs screen to choose exactly what you want Tone 1 and Tone 2 applied to.

Guitar Input Pad Switch – This little button can be engaged to tame hotter signals at the Guitar In jack, such as if your guitar or bass has high output active pickups or an on-board preamp.

Input Signal Present and Clip Indicator Lights – The green “Signal Present” indicator lights when either a guitar or mic input signal is detected. The red “Clip” indicator lights up if input clipping is detected at the Channel Strip Mic or Guitar Inputs. To avoid clipping (and you really should always avoid clipping), engage the Mic Pad or Guitar Pad switch or turn down the Mic Trim knob. You might also try adjusting the output level of the device that’s feeding into these inputs.

Microphone Input – Connect up to two microphones into the channel strip 1 and 2 XLR inputs using standard XLR mic cables. POD X3 itself applies preamp and effects models to your mic input, which is then fed out the Analog Left & Right Live Outputs, Direct/Studio XLR Outputs, the AES/EBU & S/PDIF digital outputs, and out the Record Sends digitally to your computer across the USB 2.0 connection. POD X3 is of course also capable of applying a Dual Tone, such as independently applying different set of guitar amps, bass amps, mic preamps and effects to whatever you are inputting into channel strips 1 & 2! Just go the POD X3’s Inputs screen to choose what you want Tone 1 and Tone 2 applied to.

Mic Input Trim knob – You can use the little “Trim” knob at the top of the channel strip to adjust the respective mic input signal level, just like you would on a traditional mixing console’s channel strip. Note that you can also engage the Mic In Pad switch if the input is too high. The Signal Present and Clip lights will help with setting your input level.

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Mic Input Low Cut Filter and Pad Switches – Engage the Low Cut Filter for the Mic Input to cut off all frequencies 75Hz and below - useful for eliminating rumble from mic sources. If you are plugging in a Mic with a hot signal level, engage this pad to attenuate the channel strip’s Mic Input by -20dB.

Phantom Power Switch – Pushing in this button activates 48V Phantom Power for both Channel Strip Mic Inputs. An LED will light when Phantom Power is activated.

Phones Output

Phones Output - If you want to listen to the audio using stereo headphones, then plug them into this

1/4-inch stereo jack. This Phones jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Line Outs; the audio from your DAW, as well as anything plugged into the Guitar, Mic, Aux, Variax, digital or Line inputs. The volume is set by the Master Volume knob. Any time you use headphones, it important to be sure the Master Volume knob is not set at a ridiculous level ﬁrst!

Rear Panel Connections

Look around back of your X3 Pro for more ins & outs...

AES/EBU In & Out - Connect digitally to other AES/EBU devices

FBV Pedal In - Connect a Line 6 FBV controller

S/PDIF In & Out - Connect digitally to other S/PDIF devices

MIDI In & Out/Thru Connect to external MIDI hardware

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Variax In - Connect your Variax Guitar

USB 2.0 - Connect to your computer

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AES/EBU Digital Input & Output - To record digitally from another digital device, connect it’s AES/EBU output to this Input. The AES/EBU In always receives 24-bit audio. To send output from POD X3 to another device digitally, connect from this AES/EBU Output to the AES/EBU In on your other device. Connecting digitally is the best choice for routing to external digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder, digital video player, digital mixing board, etc. The AES/EBU output sends out the Tone(s) according to your device settings - these options are found on the POD X3 device itself by pressing the “Outputs” button. The digital signal is always sent at 24-bit resolution. For more information on using these digital connections, please see your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook.

S/PDIF Digital Input & Output - To record digitally from another digital device, connect it’s S/PDIF output to this S/PDIF Input. The S/PDIF In always receives 24-bit audio. To send output from POD X3 to another device digitally, connect from this S/PDIF Output to the S/PDIF in on your other device. The S/PDIF Out jack sends out 24-bit digital versions of the Direct Out signals. The System setup screen lets you choose the sample rate and adjust the level. Connecting digitally is the best choice for routing to and from external digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder, digital video player, digital mixing board, etc. For more information on using these digital connections, please see your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook.

FBV Pedal Input – Connect an optional Line 6 FBV Series foot controller here, including the FBV, FBV Shortboard, and FBV Express, to remotely control even more of the internal POD X3 settings and parameters. The System page lets you set it all up. Note that POD X3 Pro doesn’t support the older Line 6 Floor Board or FBV2.

MIDI In & Out/Thru - Connect your POD X3 Pro to your MIDI equipment to send and receive Program Change Messages for selecting Presets or for communicating with other MIDI hardware & software. POD X3 Pro’s MIDI Out connects to another device’s MIDI In; the X3’s MIDI In goes to another device’s MIDI Out. Use standard 5-pin MIDI cables for these connections. For more information, please see your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook.

Variax In - Got yourself a Line 6 Variax guitar or bass? Plug it in here for a direct digital audio connection between the guitar and POD X3 Pro. The POD X3 Inputs screen is where you assign whether this input feeds Tone 1, Tone 2 or both. See your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook for more info.

Be sure to keep the protective plastic cap on this connection when it’s not connected to a Variax, so you won’t damage it by mistakenly inserting a 1/4-inch guitar cable or other connection. When you are ready to connect a Variax, use only Line 6 supplied Variax-compatible cables – not standard Ethernet or other cables – to avoid damage to the jack. You can learn more about the Variax family of guitars, each one giving you the sound of an entire guitar collection in one instrument, at www.line6.com/variax.

USB - This is where you connect a USB cable from POD X3 Pro to your computer’s 2.0 port. Of course

your POD X3 Pro is capable of processing your guitar Tone all by itself, but you’ll need to connect the USB cable to your computer to use it with POD Farm Plug-In, and/or to use POD X3 Pro as your computer’s sound card device.

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Output Level Switch

Optimize the Studio/ Direct Outs level for Mic vs. Line

Stereo FX Loop Send & Return Jacks

Studio/Direct Outputs – These balanced XLR outs carry your tone complete with speaker/microphone/

room simulation, perfect in the studio for pro-quality sound or as a direct send to a house mixer or PA when playing live.

Studio/Direct Outputs Connect here to route your fuly processed tones to external gear.

Left & Right Live Outputs Connect to your powered speakers or mixer

Ground Lift Switch

Toggle the ground on/off

Unprocessed Outputs Use as a dry out to D.I. to your recording gear

Line Inputs - Connect the stereo audio feed from another device

Output Level Switch Optimize your Live Outs level for feeding an amp vs. line level devices

Output Level Switch – Use this to toggle the level of the Studio/Direct Outputs to best match the hardware inputs you are plugging into - Mic or Line level.

Ground Lift Switch – This switch lets you lift the grounds of POD X3 Pro’s XLR Studio/Direct Outs. You can set this to “LIFT” if you get an audible hum caused by a ground loop when connecting to other grounded equipment. Otherwise, best to keep this set to “GND”.

Unprocessed Outputs – These unbalanced 1/4-inch connectors give you an unprocessed guitar signal, tapped directly off of your POD X3 Pro’s guitar input. This is perfect for recording a “naked” guitar, allowing you to later re-amp or use plug-ins to process your recorded guitar track.

Line Inputs – These two unbalanced 1/4-inch inputs can be used for a second guitar, another instrument, line outs from other audio devices, etc. The Inputs page on POD X3 Pro is where you assign whether these inputs feed Tone 1, Tone 2 or both.

Left & Right Live Outs – The unbalanced 1/4-inch connectors here get your POD X3 Pro’s sound to a guitar ampliﬁer, recorder, mixer or PA system. Go to POD X3 Pro’s Output screen to conﬁgure these outputs for Studio or Live use. In Studio Mode, they’re ready to plug into a recorder with unbalanced –10 dBV inputs. In Live Mode, they don’t have speaker simulation, and are ready for connection to an on-stage power amp. Whichever you choose, the front panel Master Volume knob determines how much signal you’ll get at these jacks. You can use either jack as a mono output. The POD X3 System page has options allowing you to disable the Master Volume control for these outputs, so you can make on-stage adjustments to the 1/4-inch outputs feeding an amp without affecting the Direct/Studio Output levels sent to the house sound mixer or PA.

Output Level Switch – This switch allows you to set the level of the Left & right Live Outs to AMP or LINE level.

Effects Loop – The Effects Loop provides two jacks for stereo FX Send and two for stereo FX Return,

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operating at approximately 19.5 Volts peak-to-peak, making it optimal for line level devices. The loop can also be used with most stomp boxes by adjusting the send and return levels. Use the Left Return jack for mono return. The loop can run pre or post Amp Model, and if nothing is connected to it, POD X3 Pro is smart enough to disable the loop so you still get sound.

Using PODxt Family Devices with Your Computer...

If you own a PODxt, PODxt Live or PODxt Pro, then you can also reap the DAW beneﬁts with the purchase of the POD Farm Plug-In Add-On! To get POD Farm Plug-In, just connect PODxt to your computer and run Line 6 Monkey, where you can purchase, download and install everything you need without even leaving your chair. Read more about Line 6 Monkey and this process here, or just head on over to the Line 6 Online Store.

POD Farm software does not function in Standalone operation with PODxt family devices. Since all processing is done on your PODxt hardware itself, you can call up your PODxt tones and adjust settings on the device itself, and use the Line 6 audio driver settings to feed whatever signal you want out the Record Sends for use with your DAW software!

You can also of course utilize PODxt as a high performance sound card for your Mac® or Windows computer, allowing you to record all those groovy POD Tones, or even dry input signals, directly into your DAW. To control the Monitor level and type of signal fed to PODxt’s Record Send 1-2 (Processed, Semi-Processed, Dry), launch the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog on you computer. For details on all the audio driver settings and options, please check out the PODxt - Audio Signal Routing & Re-

Amping section that follows.

The following sections cover the basic connections for using PODxt family devices for recording. Use these links to jump to the section covering your speciﬁc PODxt device:

PODxt ProPODxt LivePODxt

Be sure to also check out your PODxt Pilot’s Handbook, and the additional documentation found on the POD Farm Online Help page of the Line 6 site.

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Phones - Connect your stereo Headphones

Instrument Input – Connect your electric guitar or bass here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. PODxt itself contains the processing power that turns your naked input signal into that roaring guitar Tone, which is then fed out the Analog Line Outs, as well as fed to the Record Send 1-2 digitally to your computer across the USB connection.

Phones - To listen using stereo headphones, then plug them into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This Headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Line Outs; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into the Instrument input.

Analog Line Outs – connect to your powered speakers or mixer

USB - Connect to your computer

Instrument Input Connect your guitar or bass

Analog Line Outs - These Left and Right ¼-inch jacks output all audio signals; the audio from your audio software on the computer, and anything plugged into any the Instrument input. So, these are what you want to connect to your monitoring system when using PODxt as your computer’s sound card. Use shielded ¼-inch tipped cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the Phones jack on PODxt if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

USB - This is where you connect a USB cable from PODxt to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port. Of course your PODxt is capable of processing your guitar Tone all by itself, but you’ll need to connect the USB cable to your computer to use it with the optional POD Farm Plug-In, and/or to use PODxt as your computer’s sound card device.

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Instrument Input - Connect your guitar or bass

Aux Input – (Monitor in) connect a line level, stereo output (from your stereo, MP3 player, etc)

Instrument Input – Connect your electric guitar or bass here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. PODxt Live itself contains the processing power that turns your naked input signal into that roaring guitar Tone, which is then fed out the Analog Line Outs, as well as fed to the Record Send 1-2 digitally to your computer across the USB connection.

Analog Line Outs - These Left and Right ¼-inch jacks output all audio signals; the audio from your DAW, and anything plugged into any the Instrument and Aux inputs. So, these are what you want to connect to your monitoring system when using PODxt Live as your computer’s sound card. Use shielded ¼-inch tipped cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the Phones jack on PODxt Live if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

Phones - Connect your stereo Headphones

Analog Line Outs – connect to your powered speakers or mixer

USB - Connect to your computer

Aux In (Monitor In) - If you want to hear the signal from a line level source mixed with all the other audio coming from your computer, but do not want this audio recorded, then plug the source in here. Note that this is a stereo jack, so you should use a stereo 1/8-inch tipped stereo audio cable for this connection. You’ll hear any audio coming into this jack via the Analog Line Outs and Phones, but it won’t go to PODxt Live’s Record Send 1-2.

USB - This is where you connect a USB cable to PODxt Live, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port. Of course your PODxt Live is capable of processing your guitar Tone all by itself, but you’ll need to connect the USB cable to your computer to use it with the optional POD Farm Plug-In, and/or to use PODxt Live as your computer’s sound card device.

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Phones - Connect your stereo Headphones

Instrument input – Connect your electric guitar or bass here using a standard 1/4-inch TS instrument cable. PODxt Pro itself contains the processing power that turns your naked input signal into that roaring guitar Tone, which is then fed out the Analog and Digital Outs, as well as fed to the Record Send 1-2 digitally to your computer across the USB connection.

your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into the Instrument input.

Connect any Line-Level source you want to record to the Line Input

Unprocessed Instrument Out- When using POD Farm Plug-in, connect to 3rd-party audio recording interface

Instrument Input Connect your guitar or bass

USB - Connect to your computer

Analog Line Outs, Use either Unbalanced (¼ -inch) jacks or Balanced (XLR) jacks to connect to your powered speakers or mixer

Line Input - if you want to record the signal from a line level source, such as a keyboard, your receiver, the line out from a mixing console, etc…, connect it to this input using a 1/4-inch TS audio cable.

Unprocessed Guitar Out - This connection allows you to send an unprocessed, analog signal to DAW setup, while monitoring the fully processed signal thru the main Outputs. Very handy if you’re using a 3rd party recording interface (such as a Digidesign® Mbox®) with your recording application and the optional POD Farm Plug-In. For more info, go to the ToneDirect™ Monitoring section of this Guide.

Note that PODxt Pro can also send an unprocessed signal thru its USB connector, as explained here.

Unbalanced and Balanced Analog Line Outs - The Left and Right Unbalanced ¼-inch jacks and the Balanced XLR jacks output all audio signals; the audio from your DAW, and anything plugged

Digital Input and Output – use the AES/EBU or S/PDIF type connections to connect to other digital gear that uses one of these formats

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into any the Instrument inputs (and effects loop, if you are using it). So, these are what you want to connect to your monitoring system when using PODxt Live as your computer’s sound card. Use shielded ¼-inch tipped or XLR tipped cables to connect directly to your powered speakers, mixer or power amp setup. Note that you can also use the Phones jack on PODxt Pro if you want to use headphones for monitoring.

USB - This is where you connect a USB cable to PODxt Pro, with the other end going to your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port. Of course your PODxt Pro is capable of processing your guitar Tone all by itself, but you’ll need to connect the USB cable to your computer to use it with the optional POD Farm Plug-In, and/or to use PODxt Pro as your computer’s sound card device.

AES/EBU and S/PDIF Digital connections - To connect to another digital audio device with your PODxt Pro, use the pair of these digital jacks that matches the format of your other device (AES/EBU or S/PDIF). Connecting digitally is the best choice for routing to external digital recording devices, such as a DAT recorder, digital mixer, etc.. These digital outputs send the same audio as is sent to PODxt Pro’s Analog Outs. The digital signal is always sent at 24-bit resolution. All settings for conﬁguring the PODxt Pro’s digital in/out options are found on the PODxt Pro device itself by pressing the “I/O Dig Select” button on the front panel. For more information on using these digital connections, please see your PODxt Pro Pilot’s Handbook.

PODxt - Audio Signal Routing & Re-Amping

Re-Amping is the fancy, schmancy name for recording a dry, unaltered instrument signal to be processed later during mixing - this gives you the greatest ﬂexibility to make later tone tweaks, since you don’t have to commit a particular sound to the track(s). This is of course the way that plug-ins work, so it’s something that all plug-ins, including the optional POD Farm Plug-in, provide. If you don’t have plugins but do have PODxt, there’s another kind of re-amping available.

PODxt, PODxt Pro and PODxt Live provide an additional set of driver options for recording where the signal fed to Record Send 1-2 can be set to “processed” or “unprocessed” independently from what you are hearing as your monitor signal from the PODxt device. Access the PODxt Audio Signal Routing options by clicking the Advanced button in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices control panel...

Select the signal to be routed to the Record Sends here.

The text in the Record Sends panel describes the signal now being fed to the Record Send 1-2

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This slider sets the level of the re-amped signal sent to PODxt for monitoring

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In the PODxt Signal Routing selector you can choose one of four routing modes for the signals that run inside PODxt, and to Record Send 1-2:

Send Processed Guitar• - This is the normal mode of operation: PODxt-processed sound is sent to your computer via Record Send 1-2 so it can be recorded in your audio software. PODxt gets its input from the guitar plugged into its INPUT jack, and you can listen to PODxt-processed guitar sound as well as sound coming from your computer via PODxt’s LEFT OUTPUT, RIGHT OUTPUT and PHONES jacks.

Send Clean Guitar• - This mode sends unprocessed guitar to your to Record Send 1-2, while you listen to PODxt-processed guitar and software playback coming out of your PODxt. You can use this to record an unprocessed guitar signal in your audio software for later re-amping, while hearing your PODxt-processed guitar signal without latency being added by your recording program. You can then choose USB Signal Routing modes 3 and 4 when you’re ready to playback that track and re-amp it through your PODxt. You may also want to record a copy of your PODxt-processed sound from the analog outputs of your PODxt when you are making your digital recording of the clean guitar, so you have the processed version for reference when re-amping. This track is also handy for punch-ins, since you can listen to it during punch-ins to hear the processed version of the part of the previously recorded track that you want to keep.

Send Clean Guitar Re-Amp Playback• - This mode sends unprocessed guitar to your recording software, feeds the signal from your computer into PODxt’s processing, and lets you hear the PODxt-processed computer sound at PODxt’s outputs. You can use this to run an unprocessed guitar track that you recorded using USB Signal Routing mode 2 into your PODxt for re-amping, allowing you to listen to or record the PODxt-processed result via PODxt’s analog outputs. You can also use this mode during initial recording, so that unprocessed guitar can be recorded to a track, and the output of that track can be sent by the recording program to PODxt at the same time. This lets you punch-in on the track while you’re recording, and hear PODxt processing of the already recorded part of the track as well as the new portion that you’re recording during the punch-in. Your recording software will add some latency to the guitar signal that it is monitoring back through to PODxt. You can generally get the lowest latency by reducing your buffer size in the recording software, but lower buffer settings will utilize more of your computer’s processing, so you may not be able to run as many tracks or effects in your recording software when you do this. See your recording software’s instructions for details.

Send Re-Amp Playback• - This mode is designed to receive unprocessed guitar from your recording program, and send processed guitar back to the recording program for recording. You can use this to run an unprocessed guitar track that you recorded using USB Signal Routing mode 2 into your PODxt for re-amping, so you can digitally record the PODxt-processed signal back to another track in the recording program.

Note – it is not a supported practice to “hot swap” your Line 6 device (unplug the USB cable and plug it into a different USB device) while it is in use by your computer and DAW software. In fact, this just isn’t a good idea to do with any USB audio devices, since it can result in a loud pop, loss of sync and possibly crash or corrupt your current DAW project.

Routing Audio From Your Line 6 Hardware to an External Device

In addition to the ability to route digital audio directly within your computer, you may instead want to route your POD Farm or POD signal into another sound card on the same or separate computer. Better yet, with all the great tones you can now create for your mics & instruments, there is no need to limit them to the inside of a computer! You may also want to send the signal to external hardware such as an analog or tape Multitrack unit, a DAT or video tape recorder, or even to an ampliﬁer or P.A. system

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for live performance. To follow are instructions for these different types of setups.

Connecting analog outputs to an external device

You can route your POD Farm Tone to just about any type of external device simply by connecting the Analog Outs from the back of your POD Studio, GuitarPort, TonePort or POD directly into the external device’s line level, analog inputs. This allows you to amplify or record your POD Farm/POD signal using any external device that accepts analog line level inputs.

Connect your POD Studio, TonePort, GuitarPort or POD Analog Outs to the analog inputs on any external audio device

Routing analog outputs to another sound card

If you want to use POD Farm and your Line 6 device in a computer recording setup where a sound card already exists, then you might ﬁnd it useful to connect your Line 6 hardware’s Analog Outs into the analog inputs of the existing sound card. More information can be found in the Sound Card and

Sound Issues section of this guide.

Connecting the Digital Output to an external digital device

UX2, UX8, KB37, POD X3, POD X3 Live, POD X3 Pro and PODxt Pro also include digital outputs, which allow you to connect to digital devices such as a DAT recorder, MiniDisc, another sound card, or most any device that offers a S/PDIF (or AES/EBU for POD X3 & PODxt Pro) format digital input. Please refer to your hardware’s User Guide, or check out the additional documentation on the POD

Farm Online Help page of the Line 6 web site.

ToneDirect™ Monitoring

A unique feature of Line 6 POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort hardware is ToneDirect™ Monitoring, which is a separate audio path that allows you to monitor the incoming signal with the

lowest possible latency, for uncompromised feel and responsiveness when recording or jamming.

Additionally, when using POD Farm in Standalone operation along with your DAW software, this allows you to set the audio buffer size in your DAW software at a large value for efﬁcient use of your computer, yet still enjoy extreme low latency monitoring while recording. On Windows® systems, the ToneDirect™ audio path has its own buffer adjustment while on Mac®, no adjustments are needed.

ToneDirect™ Monitoring buffer size slider (Windows®)

POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices - The Line 6 ToneDirect™ Monitoring audio path has its own buffer to allow you to keep your ASIO Buffer Size at a high value, for more solid performance and more efﬁcient performance of your ASIO software. to access the ToneDirect™ Monitoring buffer slider, launch the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog - (just click the Driver Console button within

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the POD Farm Mixer View, or go to the Windows® Control Panel). The initial default is one tick to the right of “Extra Small” as shown. Raise this slider if you are getting any dropouts in your monitor signal.

POD X3 & PODxt devices - These devices do not utilize POD Farm in Standalone operation, however, they do offer low latency “USB Audio Streaming” feature with a USB audio buffer adjustment slider (rather than ToneDirect™ Monitoring) within the Windows® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Settings dialog which provides an independent, direct monitor signal with its own buffer adjustment. When a POD X3 or PODxt is connected, this buffer slider is displayed:

ToneDirect™ Monitoring while recording with POD Farm Plug-in

ToneDirect™ is a feature of the POD Farm application when run in Standalone mode, not the POD Farm Plug-in, so in order for you to enjoy the feel and responsiveness provided by ToneDirect™, you’ll need to run the “stand-alone” POD Farm application alongside the DAW host software hosting POD Farm Plug-in. Keep in mind that these applications run independently of each other, so any Tone settings you make in the POD Farm’s Standalone mode will have to be matched in the Plug-in to provide the same results. You can achieve this by making your settings in POD Farm Standalone, saving them as a Tone Preset to your computer’s POD Farm Tones folder, and then recalling that preset later within the POD Farm Plug-in. Here are the steps to conﬁgure this type of setup:

Connect the recording source to your Line 6 hardware•

Launch POD Farm in Standalone mode, and monitor the POD Farm processed signal thru your • hardware’s Line Outputs. These outputs supply the ToneDirect™ Monitoring magic.

In the POD Farm Mixer View, conﬁgure one of Record Sends’ Source to be a • Dry Input signal. Choose this Record Send as the input for the DAW track you’re recording into.

Disable your DAW software’s Input Monitoring for the track you’re recording into.•

Load POD Farm Plug-In on the recorded DAW audio track and dial in your desired Tone for • playback!

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Sound Cards & Sound Issues

One of the many unique features of your Line 6 Hardware is its ability to function as a computer sound card. You can choose to make your hardware the preferred sound card for your computer, or alternatively keep your current “Built-In” sound card the default device for playing system sounds, etc…, and connect your hardware to it so you can hear POD Farm tone thru your computer’s sound card.

Choosing your Line 6 Hardware as the Preferred Audio Device

Setting up your Line 6 Hardware as the preferred Audio device means that all system sounds, as well as the audio output of your mp3 player software and other audio applications will be routed thru your hardware.

Windows® XP

Go to the Windows XP Control Panel, and select Sounds and Audio Devices.

Click on the Audio Tab

All your sound devices appear here

Select your Line 6 Hardware as the default audio device for Playback

and Recording

Click Apply when done

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Windows® Vista

Go to the Vista Control Panel, and select Sound.

In the Playback tab...

Select your Line 6 hardware if it shows the green checkmark then it is currently the default device for playback. If not, then click the Set Default button.

If yo want to set your Line 6 hardware as the default recording Device, then repeat these steps in the Recording tab.

Mac

Go to your computer’s System Preferences, and click on Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices

Click on the Audio Devices Tab All your sound devices appear in the drop down menus

Select your Line 6 Hardware as the default audio device for Input and

Output

Close the window when done.

Connecting Line 6 Hardware to your Preferred Audio Device

If you want to use POD Farm in Standalone operation and your Line 6 device in a computer recording setup where a sound card already exists, then you might ﬁnd it useful to connect your Analog Outs into the analog inputs of the existing sound card. This allows you to use the existing sound card with your recording application to also receive additional discrete inputs directly from other sources at the same time, if this is your desired setup. When your Line 6 device is connected to another sound card this way, then you will want to be sure your recording software is set to use the other sound card as its input device for recording. In this conﬁguration, since your Line 6 device is not in use by an audio application as a sound card, its Analog Out signal is what is being recorded, and therefore, levels are controlled by the POD Farm Standalone’s Volume knobs and the Line 6 hardware Volume knob.

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GuitarPort users...

POD Studio & TonePort users...

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Connect a 1/8-inch stereo cord to the Headphone Out, or use the Stereo RCA Line outputs with an adapter.

Connect the other end to the Line Input of your sound card.

Connect the mono 1/4-inch Analog Outputs (if you have a UX8 then you probably want to use Outs 1 &2). Or, connect a 1/4-inch stereo cord to the Headphone Out

POD X3 & PODxt users

Connect the mono 1/4inch Analog Left & Right Outputs. Or, connect a 1/4-inch stereo cord to the Headphone Out

Use an adapter if needed to connect to the Line Input of your sound card.

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Li n e 6 dr i v e r Pa n e L & re c o r d i n g

So, just how does all that huge amount of Tone get routed around between your Line 6 gear, computer and recording software you ask? All this is performed by the audio driver - a software component installed with POD Farm that allows the audio to be routed to the right place. This section provides an overview of the different driver types and where you can tweak a few settings to work best with your particular computer setup. For more instructions about setting up POD Farm and your Line 6 hardware for recording with speciﬁc audio recording programs, please check out the additional documentation found on the POD Farm Online Help page.

Windows® 64 bit users... The installation of POD Farm also installs Windows® XP® and Vista® 64 bit compatible audio drivers for your Line 6 hardware. The Windows® features described here in this chapter are the same for 32 bit or 64 bit Window systems.

Audio Routing

POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort hardware - Input sources fed into the Line 6 hardware are handled by the audio driver, which manages applying the POD Farm Tone processing to your signal, feeding the processed audio out the Record Sends to your audio software, gathering playback audio from your audio software and then routing the audio back to the Line 6 hardware’s outputs and to your monitoring system. The audio driver also grabs the POD Farm processed signal before routing it to the Record Sends and hands this off to ToneDirect™ Monitoring immediately, to provide a low latency monitor signal, which is then routed to the Line 6 hardware and mixed with the rest of your audio and fed to your monitoring system.

POD X3/PODxt hardware - Input sources fed into POD devices are fully processed right on the POD hardware itself. The POD-processed audio is then handled by the audio driver, which manages feeding the audio out to the USB Record Send(s) to your audio software, gathering playback audio from the audio software, and then routing the mixed audio back to the POD’s outputs and to your monitoring system. POD also grabs its processed signal before routing it to the Record Sends its internal USB Monitoring system immediately, to provide a low latency monitor signal, and then mixes it with the rest of your audio to your monitoring system.

The Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog

Since your Line 6 device includes our high-performance audio driver, it can act as a USB sound card for just about any audio software that might be installed on your Mac® or Windows® computer. This dialog is the place where you can access the audio driver settings for your connected device to see and conﬁgure things such as the current Sample Rate, Bit Depth, Buffer settings, etc. One thing to note here is that this dialog offers controls speciﬁcally for your Line 6 hardware type. The POD Farm Standalone software is independent of these settings, however, you’ll see information regarding your Record Sends here which may change depending on whether POD Farm is currently running in Standalone mode or not. For POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort devices, you can think of the POD Farm Standalone software like a giant rack of gear – if it is not running and conﬁgured to use your POD Studio/TonePort/ GuitarPort hardware, your guitar signal will still be heard, but will be “naked”, without all those lovely amp & effects sounds. For POD X3 & PODxt devices, since your Tone is always running on the POD itself, you’ll hear whatever your POD’s Tone and audio routing settings are set to deliver. POD Farm Standalone software does not run with POD X3 and PODxt connected hardware (however, you can

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utilize the POD Farm Plug-In with these devices). There, aren’t you feeling smarter already?

The options in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog are slightly different if you are on a Windows® versus a Mac® system, and also slightly different depending on which Line 6 hardware you are using. Just check out the descriptions that match your setup in the following sections…

Windows® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog

You can launch the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog from within the Windows® XP® or Vista® Control Panel (Start button > Settings > Control Panel), or from the POD Farm Help > Hardware & Driver Settings.

Driver Tab - Windows

POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort - This example shows UX2 as the selected device, with POD Farm running in Standalone mode. You’ll see some differences with a POD device selected, which are noted in the following diagram - click on a number to go to its description. If you have a UX8 device, you’ll have even more options, so be sure to also read up on the UX8 speciﬁc sections...

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1 – Line 6 Device selector: Allows selection of any supported Line 6 USB audio device that is connected. Note that if you have more than one supported device connected, each will be selectable in this list, regardless if it is in use by the POD Farm Standalone application or not. If your device is not connected and powered on, it will not appear in this list.

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2 – Selected Device icon: An icon for the selected Line 6 Device appears here.

3 – Driver version: Displays the current device’s installed driver version number.

4 – ESN: Displays the current device’s unique Electronic Serial Number.

5 – ASIO Client indicator: If you are running audio software that is using this Line 6 device as its

ASIO sound card, the name of the software will appear here. If not in use by an ASIO software, “none” is displayed here, as shown in the above example.

6 – Buffer Size: The ASIO buffer size in use. Note this ﬁeld is only active when in use by an ASIO application. As your DAW software documentation will likely tell you, the ASIO Buffer Size will affect the “responsiveness” and “latency” of the DAW software. The lower the setting, the faster the response, but with the trade-off of higher processor usage and the risk of audio dropouts. Raise the value if you are getting inconsistent playback or recording in the audio software. Basically, 512 is generally a good average setting.*

*Note that POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort devices also offer ToneDirect™ Monitoring, which is a separate audio path with its own Buffer setting. This allows you to keep the above ASIO Buffer Size at a high “stable” value, yet still beneﬁt from low latency monitoring of your input signal while recording. Similarly, POD devices offer a USB audio buffer which provides an independent, direct monitor signal with its own buffer adjustment as well. More info on ToneDirect monitoring can be found in this section.

7 – Bit Depth: The ASIO bit depth in use. Note this ﬁeld is only active when in use by an ASIO

application. It is recommended to use the 24-bit option here as well as the 24-bit option within your ASIO recording software. (If your ASIO audio software only supports or is set to 16-bit, then it is recommended to set your Line 6 hardware’s Bit Depth setting here also to 16-bit to match).

8 – Sample Rate Converter Active indicator: POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices support

44.1 and 48 kHz sample rates natively, and also support 88.2 and 96 kHz sample rates by way of an internal sample rate converter. This indicator lights up to show you when this converter is active, which can be any time your ASIO software is requesting a different sample rate than what your device “natively” supports. UX8 and POD X3 family devices support 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96 kHz sample rates natively.

9 – Driver Operation indicator:

POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices - Displays what sample rate and bit depth the current device is operating at (or with no text if not in use).

10 – Lock Driver Format: When checked, this forces the Line 6 audio driver to operate at the Sample Rate and Bit Depth settings entered in the two ﬁelds below (as opposed to following the sample rate requested by a Windows audio application).

Note – This checkbox will remain grayed-out while the current Line 6 device is in use by the POD Farm Standalone application and/or any 3rd party audio application. To access the Force Driver Format feature, you will need to exit POD Farm, as well as any audio software that might be using the currently selected Line 6 device as its audio device. This checkbox will then be selectable.

Windows Vista users... you won’t see these options in this portion of the dialog since these driver

format options are handled by Vista itself. You will instead see a Sound Control Panel button:

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Pressing this button (not surprisingly) launches the Vista Control Panel’s Sound dialog. Here in the Playback tab you can designate your Line 6 USB device as the “Default” audio device if you want all your Vista programs such as Win Media Player, Flash Player, iTunes, Internet video players, etc., to send their playback to it. However, if you are going to set your Line 6 device as the default, it is a good idea to also go to the Sounds tab and set it to the No Sounds sound scheme to avoid also getting blasts of all those Vista system alerts, beeps and dings blaring through your monitors or headphones!

The Vista Sound Control Panel dialog - Playback tab

You can also click on the Properties button and access the default format setting for the Sample Rate and Bit Depth for your Line 6 device when used with Vista audio applications. (Note that if you are using an audio application that is set to utilize the ASIO driver for your Line 6 device, then ASIO communicates directly with the device, and these Vista “default format” settings do not apply).

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The Vista Control Panel>Sounds>Properties - Advanced tab

11 – ToneDirect Monitoring Buffer Size: This slider adjusts the buffer size for the audio responsiveness of the ToneDirect Monitoring signal. Basically, the default setting should be ﬁne for most systems, but if getting audio dropouts or working with large CPU demands on your system, raise the slider a notch or two to the right until it alleviates the problem. Please see the ToneDirect Monitoring section for more details.

Inputs & Recording Tab - Windows

Input Source Menu: This allows the user to select which physical input “source” is used on the Line 6 USB hardware (Mic 1, Instrument, etc.). Note that this menu is ONLY selectable when the POD Farm Standalone software is not in use by the Line 6 hardware. When POD Farm is in use, it remains grayed out, but displays the current Source that is selected within POD Farm Standalone.

When POD Farm Standalone is not in use by the selected Line 6 device, this Input Source menu, like the POD Farm Tone 1 Input Source menu, offers a list of input options.

GX, DI and GuitarPort are always “ﬁxed” to only route their “instrument” 1 /4 input signal into POD Farm Standalone.

PODxt & POD X3 devices do not offer an Input Source menu in this dialog.

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TonePort UX8 has a larger set of options - see the next section for its Inputs & Recording tab.

Record Sends Info box: One line for each Record Send appears here along with a general description for the signal each Send is carrying. Refer to your speciﬁc Line 6 device type in the following descriptions.

Note that multiple Sends for your Line 6 device are only available when using the ASIO driver in your recording software. If your recording software is conﬁgured to access the device via its WDM or DirectSound driver, then only one Send will be available in the recording software (Send 1-2).

POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices (except UX8) show the following Sends:

TonePort devices show two stereo Sends (Record 1-2 and Record 3-4)

Single Tone Source (Mono/Stereo): When the POD Farm Standalone application is not • running, Record Send 1-2 and 3-4 both carry the unprocessed signal. When running POD Farm Standalone, Record Send 1-2 and 3-4 carry the type of signal deﬁned within POD Farm’s Mixer View - Record Send Source menus (Processed, Semi-Processed or Dry) - see the POD Farm

Standalone - Mixer section for details.

POD X3 devices show a list of 5 Record Sends:

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Note that the type of signal that is fed to each Send is conﬁgured on the POD X3’s on-board Outputs Studio/Direct Mix settings screen. To put it another way, Send 1-2 is fed the same “Studio/Direct Mix” as your main outputs, which could be just a Tone 1, or some combination of Tone 1 & 2, depending on how you set the Studio/Direct mix controls. Please refer to your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook for details on the Output screen options and especially about POD X3’s unique Dual Tone operation.

POD X3 also offers a Monitor Level slider in this tab as well - you can use this to independently adjust your POD X3 hardware monitor signal while recording (independently of the Send signal level that is being recorded).

PODxt devices show one Record Send (Record 1-2).

The type of signal that is routed to the Record Send 1-2 is determined by the PODxt Signal Routing option within the Audio Signal Routing menu at the left, (see the PODxt Audio Signal Routing section for more about the options in this menu). PODxt also offers a Monitor Level slider in this tab as well - you can use this to independently adjust your PODxt monitor signal while recording (independently of the Send signal level that is being recorded).

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Inputs & Recording Tab (TonePort UX8 only - Windows)

The Inputs & Recording tab lets you select speciﬁc inputs for recording. Input Source options are as follows:

Input 1: Instrument 1 or XLR 1 or Line 1 or S/PDIF (L) Input 2: Instrument 2 or XLR 2 or Line 2 or S/PDIF (R) Input 3: XLR 3 or Line 3 Input 4: XLR 4 or Line 4 Input 5: XLR 5 or Line 5 Input 6: XLR 6 or Line 6 Input 7: XLR 7 or Line 7 Input 8: XLR 8 or Line 8

You can also link inputs into stereo pairs. This affects hardware monitoring controls in the Outputs & Monitoring tab (see below).

Using Inputs 1 & 2 with the POD Farm Standalone application

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via ToneDirect™ monitoring for Inputs 1 & 2 of the UX8, which includes two high-Z Instrument inputs, two XLR inputs, two Line level inputs and stereo S/PDIF input. POD Farm’s ToneDirect™ Monitoring is ideally suited for recording guitar and bass with amp and effects processing, providing

the instantaneous feel necessary for competent performance while tracking.

ASIO Record Sends

This box displays the ASIO names of the UX8’s input sources as they appear in recording applications utilizing the UX8’s ASIO driver, along with a description of what each Send is carrying. UX8’s Input Sources 1 through 8 are mapped directly to the corresponding Send number (i.e. - Inputs 1-2 are fed to Record Send 1-2). Sends 9-10 and 11-12 will carry a different signal depending on if the POD Farm Standalone application is running...

If the POD Farm Standalone application is not currently running, then you’ll see the list appear as follows:

When POD Farm Standalone is not running, Sends 9-10 and 11-12 carry the Input 1 (dry, unprocessed) signal

If the POD Farm Standalone application is currently running, then Sends 9-10 and 11-12 will carry the type of signal deﬁned within POD Farm’s Mixer view - Record Send Source menus (Processed, Semi-Processed or Dry) - see the POD Farm Standalone - Mixer section for details.

Hardware Meters Show

Use this menu to select the input and output levels you want the UX8’s hardware meters to display.

Clock Source

Set your preferred UX8 clock source with this menu. Select S/PDIF to sync the UX8 to S/PDIF clock source from another device’s digital output.

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Outputs & Monitoring Tab (UX8 Only - Windows)

Important: Note that the Outputs & Monitoring tab provides control over the volume of whatever

you are inputting into UX8. These controls do not affect Send levels (the audio that streams into your recording software), nor do they control the level of audio coming from your computer (such as the playback level of your software’s session). In other words, volume and pan levels here are purely analog, intended for monitoring live input levels (from instruments, mics, etc) to provide you with independent level control over these items versus the playback levels of your audio software’s tracks.

You can specify different mix settings for each pair of UX8 outputs if you like. By default, the only sounds that come out of the UX8 are the computer’s output and POD Farm Record Send 9-10 signal (determined by the POD Farm Mixer View - Record Send settings), all through the physical Main Outs 1-2. You can directly monitor other UX8 inputs by unmuting (uncheck the Mute checkbox for) the corresponding input source in this tab. Note that the Mute and volume controls here only act upon inputs (your guitar, bass, mic etc., plugged into the UX8), and not audio coming from your computer (such as the playback of your DAW software session). UX8 provides monitoring through the hardware with zero latency, which is ideal for tracking with multiple sources simultaneously.

Use the drop-down menu at the top to select the output pair that you want to mix. Each output pair can have different mix settings.

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Mix Controls

Inputs 1 - 12 offer the following controls:

Mute (On/Off) Monitor Volume (-100dB to +6dB)

Monitor Pan (100% Left - 100% Right)* Stereo Monitor Meters

* -3dB panning law is applied to the pan control to maintain a constant monitoring level across the panorama.

Main Monitor Volume

This slider controls the overall monitoring volume for the current output pair. What you hear is displayed in the adjacent level meter and includes the combination of input sources and computergenerated signals, such as those assigned to the current output from within your DAW software. Note that computer-generated signals (e.g. - the playback audio from your DAW software’s session) are unaffected by the volume slider. The level meter’s clip LED graphics light up when the signal reaches 0 dB.

Main Mix vs. Talent Mix

UX8’s two front panel headphone outputs mirror Outs 1-2 and 3-4 respectively. You can use the monitor controls, for example, to create a “main mix (1-2)” that captures the overall image of the recording project, while a separate “talent mix (3-4)” can be provided for the musician who is currently performing a new part, and may need a click track and an ample level of themselves above the rest of the mix (you know, the guy asking for “more me” in his headphones). Additional output pairs 5-6 and 7-8 are available for headphone mixers or sending to an external tape deck, other monitors, or whatever else you might want to send out a customized mix to.

Stereo Pairs

When the “Stereo” checkbox is active in the Inputs & Recording tab for a pair of Inputs, the representative Inputs in the Ouputs and Monitoring tab will display them as “locked” as a stereo pair.

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The lock icon represents two sources linked as a stereo pair.

Using tool tips

You can obtain precise value readings for output levels, volume sliders and pan sliders. Do this by hovering the mouse cursor over the meter or slider you wish to read.

The Pan sliders for a “locked” stereo pair are automatically set to 100% Left and Right.

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Mac® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog

You can launch the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog from within the Mac® System Preferences, or from the POD Farm Standalone application’s Preferences > Hardware tab. On Mac® systems, all Line 6 hardware utilizes the Mac® OS X® Core Audio driver format, which means that some of your Line 6 device settings are found in the OS X Audio-MIDI Setup dialog. You can get to this dialog from within the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog (or, from the Finder by going to Applications > Utilities > Audio-MIDI Setup).

Line 6 Audio-MIDI Settings - Driver Tab

POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices – The following example shows POD Studio UX2 as the selected device, with the POD Farm Standalone software running. If you have the UX8 hardware, you’ll have even more options, so be sure to also read up on the UX8 speciﬁc sections...

POD X3 & PODxt devices - You’ll see some differences with a POD device selected – as noted in the following descriptions…

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2 – Selected Device Icon: An icon for the selected Line 6 Device appears here.

3 – Driver version: Displays the current device’s installed driver version number.

4 - ESN: Displays the current device’s unique Electronic Serial Number.

5 – Run Audio-MIDI Setup button: On Mac® systems, Core Audio sound card driver settings are

conﬁgured in the OS X® Audio-MIDI Settings utility. This button launches this dialog for you (see following OS X Audio-MIDI Settings Dialog section).

6 – Sample Rate Converter Active indicator: POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort devices support

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44.1 and 48 kHz sample rates natively, and support 88.2 and 96 kHz sample rates by way of an internal sample rate converter.* This indicator lights up to show you when this converter is active, which can be any time your audio software is requesting a different sample rate you’re your device “natively” supports or is “ﬁxed” at. Also see the Force Driver Format checkbox option. See the description for the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog for more about Sample Rates.

*UX8 and POD X3 hardware supports 44.1, 48, 88.2 and 96 kHz sample rates natively.

Note that POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices all offer ToneDirect™ Monitoring, which is a separate audio path than the Mac® Core Audio system uses to route your processed signal to your audio software. ToneDirect Monitoring allows your POD Farm processed monitor signal to function with very low latency. There are no adjustments necessary for these monitoring systems. More information on ToneDirect can be found in the next section.

Mac

OS X® Audio-MIDI Setup Dialog

Note: For UX8, please see the following UX8 Audio-MIDI Settings section.

5a – System Settings:

The • Default Input and Default Output options allow you to choose the sound card you want your audio applications to use by default. If you want this to be your Line 6 device, select it here.

The • System Output option allows you to choose which sound card the Mac System Settings are played through. You may NOT want to choose this to be your Line 6 device, since it can be rather annoying to hear those dings, beeps or frogs croaking at blaring volumes in your headphones or monitors when working in your audio application! Even better, you can turn these system settings off completely in the System Preferences > Sounds dialog.

5b – Properties For: Choose your Line 6 device here to allow the Audio Input and Audio Output

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options display its settings.

5c – Audio Input:

In the top selector, you will be able to choose your Record Send for your Line 6 device to view • it’s format settings below.

The • Format selectors show you the Sample Rate* and Bit Depth that the Line 6 device is operating at for recording. The Bit Depth for all Line 6 devices is ﬁxed at 24 bit.

*It is recommended that you do not use the Sample Rate selector here in the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog to set your sample rate when your recording software is running. Typically, your recording software will offer a Sample Rate option within its own “Preferences” or “Audio Setup” settings. It is best to conﬁgure the Sample Rate within the recording software, and you will see the device’s sample rate switch automatically to match it.

5d – Volume sliders (audio input):

These sliders are not functional with Line 6 hardware - use the POD Farm Standalone Mixer sliders and/or the Tone’s Volume controls instead of using these sliders to set your Record Send levels for Line 6 devices.

5e – Audio Output:

The • Format selectors show you the Sample Rate* and Bit Depth that the Line 6 device is operating at for playback. The Bit Depth for all Line 6 devices is ﬁxed at 24 bit.

*It is recommended that you do not use the Sample Rate selector in the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog to set your sample rate when your recording software is running. Typically, your recording software will offer a Sample Rate option within its own “Preferences” or “Audio Setup” settings. It is best to conﬁgure the Sample Rate within the recording software for your project, and you will see the device’s sample rate switch automatically to match it.

5f – Volume sliders (audio output):

These sliders are not functional for Line 6 hardware - use the POD Farm Standalone application’s Volume controls (or the Volume knobs on your Line 6 hardware) instead of these sliders to adjust output levels.

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Mac® OS X® Audio-MIDI Settings Dialog (UX8 Only)

5a – System Settings:

The • Default Input and Default Output options allow you to choose the sound card you want your audio applications to use by default. If you want this to be your Line 6 device, select your UX8 here.

5b – Properties For: Choose your UX8 here to allow the Audio Input and Audio Output options display its settings.

5c – Audio Input:

In the top selector, you will be able to choose your Record Send for the UX8 to view its Format • settings below.

The • Format selectors show you the Sample Rate* and Bit Depth that the Line 6 device is operating at for recording. The Bit Depth is ﬁxed at 24 bit.

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*It is recommended that you do not use the Sample Rate selector in the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog to set your sample rate when your recording software is running. Typically, your recording software will offer a Sample Rate option within its own “Preferences” or “Audio Setup” settings. It is best to conﬁgure the Sample Rate within the recording software, and you will see the device’s sample rate switch automatically to match it.

5d – Volume sliders (audio input):

These sliders 1 - 12 are not functional with UX8 - use the POD Farm Standalone Mixer sliders and/or Tone volume instead of using these sliders to set your Record Send levels for Line 6 devices.

5e – Audio Output:

The • Format selectors show you the Sample Rate* and Bit Depth that the UX8 is operating at for playback. The Bit Depth for all Line 6 devices is ﬁxed at 24 bit.

*It is recommended that you do not use the Sample Rate selector in the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog to set your sample rate when your recording software is running. Typically, your recording software will offer a Sample Rate option within its own “Preferences” or “Audio Setup” settings. It is best to conﬁgure the Sample Rate within the recording software, and you will see the device’s sample rate switch automatically to match it.

5f – Volume sliders (audio output):

These sliders are not functional for Line 6 hardware - use the POD Farm Standalone volume controls (or the Volume knobs on your Line 6 hardware) instead of these sliders to adjust output levels.

Line 6 Audio MIDI Settings Dialog - Inputs & Recording Tab

1 –Input Select Menu: This allows the user to select which physical input “source” is fed from the Line 6 USB hardware (Mic 1, Instrument, etc.). Note that this menu is ONLY selectable when the POD Farm Standalone software is not in use by the Line 6 hardware. When POD Farm is in use, it remains grayed out, but displays the current Source that is selected within POD Farm Standalone.

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When POD Farm Standalone is not in use by the selected Line 6 device, this Input Source menu, like the POD Farm Tone 1 Input Source menu, offers a list of input options. The options will differ depending on the Line 6 device - (POD Studio and TonePort) UX2 displays the following:

When POD Farm Standalone is not running, the Input Source Select menu is available. As shown here, UX2 offers several input Sources to choose from. The selected Source is what gets routed to the Device Sends.

GX, DI and GuitarPort devices are always “ﬁxed” to only route their 1/4-inch input signals. With one of these devices, this Input Source Select list offers only “Instrument” as the source.

POD X3 and PODxt devices are “ﬁxed” to route their input signals. With one of these devices there is no Source Select menu displayed in the dialog.

2 – Device Sends info box: One line for each Record Send appears here along with a general description for each Send.

POD Studio, TonePort & GuitarPort devices (except UX8) show two stereo Sends (1-2 and 3-4):

The Device Sends description shows the Input Source, and informs you if that signal is “processed” or not. Since POD Farm Standalone is not running, the signals are unprocessed.

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POD X3 devices show a list of 5 Record Sends:

Note that the type of signal that is fed to each Send is conﬁgured on the POD X3’s on-board Outputs settings screen. For example, Send 1-2 carries the same “Direct/Studio” signal you hear on POD X3’s Main outputs, which could be just Tone 1, or some combination of Tone 1 & 2. Your POD X3 Output screen options allow you to mute, pan or swap Tone 1 and Tone 2, so these options will of course also affect what is fed to the Sends. Please refer to your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook for details on the Output screen options and especially to learn more about the unique POD X3 Dual Tone feature.

POD X3 also offers a Monitor Level slider in this tab as well - you can use this to independently adjust your POD X3 monitor signal while recording (independently of the Send signal level that is being recorded).

PODxt devices show one Record Send (1-2).

The type of signal that is routed to the Record Send 1-2 is determined by the PODxt Signal Routing option within the Audio Signal Routing menu at the left. Note that this Audio Signal Routing determines this signal type (see the PODxt Audio Signal Routing section for more about the options in this menu). PODxt also offers a Monitor Level slider in this tab as well - you can use this to adjust your PODxt monitor signal while recording (independently of the Record Send 1-2 signal level that is being recorded).

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Line 6 Audio MIDI Settings Dialog - Inputs & Recording Tab (UX8 Only)

1 – Input Source Select: UX8 offers 8 individual input sources, each with its own selector where you

can choose which physical input is to be used for each. Input source options are as follows:

Using Inputs 1 & 2 with the POD Farm Standalone application

The POD Farm Standalone application works with the UX8 driver to provide ultra-low latency via ToneDirect™ Monitoring for Inputs 1 & 2 of the UX8, which includes two high-Z Instrument inputs, two XLR inputs, two Line level inputs and stereo S/PDIF input. POD Farm’s ToneDirect Monitoring is ideally suited for recording guitar and bass with amp and effects processing, providing the instantaneous feel necessary for competent performance while tracking.

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When POD Farm Standalone is not running, the Input 1 & input 2 selectors are available. As shown here, UX8 offers several input Sources to choose from. The selected Source is what gets routed to the Record Send.

Stereo Paired Inputs

You can also link inputs into stereo pairs. This affects hardware monitoring controls in the Outputs & Monitoring tab (see below).

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2 – Record Sends info box: This box displays the names of the UX8’s input sources as they appear in Mac recording applications utilizing the UX8’s Core Audio driver, along with a description of what each Send is carrying. UX8’s Input Sources 1 through 8 are mapped directly to the corresponding Send number (i.e. - Inputs 1-2 are fed to Record Send 1-2). Sends 9-10 and 11-12 will carry a different signal depending on if the POD Farm Standalone application is running...

If the POD Farm Standalone application is not currently running, then you’ll see the list appear as follows:

When POD Farm Standalone is not running, Sends 9-10 and 11-12 carry the Input 1 (dry, unprocessed) signal

If the POD Farm Standalone application is currently running, then Sends 9-10 and 11-12 carries the type of signal deﬁned within POD Farm’s Mixer view - Record Send Source menus (Processed, Semi-Processed or Dry) - see the POD Farm Standalone - Mixer section for details.

3 - Clock Source - Set your preferred UX8 clock source with this menu. Select S/PDIF to sync the UX8 to an external S/PDIF clock source from another device’s digital output. If you are not connecting anything into UX8’s digital S/PDIF input, then keep this set to Internal to use the UX8’s own clock.

4 - Hardware Meters Show - This selector allows you to choose what the VU meters on the front of the UX8 are measuring. Note that these hardware meters function even if the POD Farm Standalone software is not currently running.

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5 - Restore Defaults - click this button to restore all this tabs settings to their original default values.

Outputs & Monitoring Tab (UX8 Only - Mac®)

Important: Note that the Outputs & Monitoring tab provides control over monitoring levels,

speciﬁcally, what you hear coming out of the UX8. These controls do not affect Send levels, the audio that streams into your recording software. In other words, volume and pan levels here are purely analog, intended for monitoring live input levels (from instruments, mics, etc) and computer output levels, in order to facilitate the recording process.

The Outputs & Monitoring tab provides control over hardware monitoring settings, including input source volume, pan and mute states. You can specify different mix settings for each pair of UX8 outputs if you like.

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By default, the only sounds that come out of the UX8 are the computer’s output and POD Farm 9-10 signal, all through Main Outs 1-2. You can directly monitor other UX8 inputs by un-muting (unchecking the Mute checkbox for) the corresponding input source in this tab. UX8 provides monitoring through

the hardware with zero latency, which is ideal for tracking with multiple sources simultaneously.

Use the drop-down menu at the top to select the output pair for which you want to mix. Each output pair can have different mix settings.

Mix Controls

Inputs 1 - 12 offer the following controls:

Mute (On/Off) Monitor Volume (-100dB to +6dB)

Monitor Pan (100% Left - 100% Right)* Stereo Monitor Meters

* -3dB panning law is applied to the pan control to maintain a constant monitoring level across the panorama.

Main Monitor Volume

This slider controls the overall monitoring volume for the current output pair. What you hear is displayed in the adjacent level meter and includes the combination of input sources and computergenerated signals, such as those assigned to the current output from within your recording software. Note that computer-generated signals are unaffected by the volume slider. The level meter’s clip LED graphics light up when the signal reaches 0 dB.

Main Mix vs. Talent Mix

The UX8’s two front panel headphone outputs mirror Outs 1-2 and 3-4 respectively. You can use the monitor controls, for example, to create a “main mix (1-2)” that captures the overall image of the recording project, while a separate “talent mix (3-4)” can be provided for the musician who is currently performing a new part (you know, the guy asking for “more me” in his phones), and may need a click

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track and an ample level of themselves above the rest of the mix. Additional output pairs 5-6 and 7-8 are available for headphone mixers or sending to a mixer, other monitors, etc.

Stereo Pairs

When the “Stereo” checkbox is active in the Inputs & Recording tab for a pair of Inputs, the representative Inputs in the Outputs and Monitoring tab will display them as “locked” as a stereo pair.

The lock icon represents two sources linked as a stereo pair.

The Pan sliders for a “locked” stereo pair are automatically set to 100% Left and Right.

Using tool tips

You can obtain precise value readings for output levels, volume sliders and pan sliders. Do this by hovering the mouse cursor over the meter or slider you wish to read.

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Important Things to Know for Recording

This section will give you some pointers for using your Line 6 Hardware for recording, to help you get your brain wrapped around a few of the complex computer things your geeky friends talk about at parties. We’ve got even more info, including setup tips for speciﬁc audio programs and system tweaking tips in the additional documentation found at the POD Farm Online Help site.

Sample Rate and Bit Depth

When you select a Sample Rate in your audio recording software, your Line 6 hardware’s audio driver will automatically match the sample rate setting. It is important to manually match the Bit Depth settings between your audio recording software and Line 6 audio driver as well. Here are a few things to check:

Conﬁgure your recording program’s sample rate settings, and then conﬁrm that your Line 6 • hardware is running at the correct settings in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog (Windows®) or in the Audio-MIDI Setup dialog (on Mac®). It is best to always change the sample rate settings in your audio software. In most audio software you’ll want to make this setting as a Global setting or as a per project setting, and always before you start a new project for it to use a new sample rate.

Typically, you can choose the 44,100 sample rate in your audio software for most projects. But if • you have special requirements for your session, then you can alternatively choose 48,000, 88,200 or 96,000 Hz in your audio software and your Line 6 device will support any of these rates.

For the Bit Depth on Windows systems, it is typically best choose the 24-bit option in your • Windows audio software and to manually select 24-bit in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog if your Windows audio software supports this rate - most all audio recording software does these days. If your Windows audio software is set to 16-bit operation, then it is best to match this setting and choose the 16-bit option in the Line 6 Audio-MIDI Settings dialog.

For the Bit Depth on Mac systems, it is recommended you choose 24-bit in your recording • software for all projects. As you’ll see in the Mac Audio-MIDI Setup dialog, 24-bit is the ﬁxed setting for both Audio Input and Output for all Line 6 devices.

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Pod Fa r m PL U g -in

Welcome to the wonderful world of POD Farm Plug-In, where legendary, studio-standard Tone and classic vintage effects are all available to you within your favorite Windows® or Mac® DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software, in a ﬂexible native software Plug-In format! Note that most features described in this chapter are also the same for POD Farm when in Standalone operation. For details covering the additional features unique to Standalone operation, please see the following POD Farm

Standalone Operation chapter.

Windows

As mentioned at the start of this User Guide, POD Farm Plug-In supports Windows® XP® and Vista® 64 bit systems, so if you have one of those new-fangled 64 bit PC’s, POD Farm Plug-In and any POD Farm-supported Line 6 USB hardware, then you are ready to rock. This of course includes the use of the POD Farm in Standalone Operation on Windows 64 bit systems and with 64 bit audio host applications!

64 Bit Support

A Quickie Plug-In Primer

There are many types of “Plug-Ins” in the world of software. Plug-Ins are relatively small applications that can only run when loaded inside a compatible “host” software application. Plug-Ins operate within the host application to extend the capabilities of the host. In the world of music software, audio PlugIns ﬁnd frequent use inside audio/MIDI host recording & sequencing programs, commonly referred to as DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) applications. Audio Plug-Ins provide signal processing for your

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audio tracks or live audio input.

A helpful analogy for Plug-Ins is to think of them as effects pedals. Effects pedals change the Tone of your bass or guitar before the signal reaches your ampliﬁer. As with pedals, rack effects units, or any other conventional piece of outboard gear, Plug-Ins provide familiar knobs, sliders & buttons for tweaking their parameters. For example, a distortion Plug-In will most likely have similar controls to a typical distortion pedal (such as drive, gain and tone). Visually, Plug-Ins often resemble the physical gear they emulate.

When working with DAW software, using Plug-Ins provides some great beneﬁts over using outboard effects like pedals or rack processors, such as:

Plug-Ins are “non-destructive” to your audio track – this means that you can add or remove effects • and tweak their settings as often as you like without permanently affecting the original audio recording. If any processing (such as an effect or amp tone) is added before the signal is recorded into your DAW, it is permanent and cannot be changed without recording another pass.

Plug-Ins sound the same way twice. Because you can store Plug-In settings as presets, precise • settings can be recalled easily and loaded reliably. Every time you go back to work on a speciﬁc song, you can rest assured that your Tones will be identical to the last session.

Plug-Ins are automatable. Host applications provide easy ways to create and manipulate parameter • automation, giving you surgical precision of your Tone without having to “ride the faders” of external gear during a record pass.

Plug-Ins don’t break, corrode, use up batteries, or take up space on your ﬂoor!•

Plug-In Parameter Automation

Most audio Plug-Ins are “automatable” from within your audio host software - meaning, you can tweak the Plug-In’s parameters (e.g. - wah pedal position, delay mix level, stomp on/off, etc.) and your adjustments will be recorded by the DAW in real-time, and recreated during playback.

All major DAW host applications, such as Steinberg Cubase®, Digidesign Pro Tools®, and Cakewalk SONAR®, provide Plug-In parameter automation capabilities. Each host software offers parameter automation options slightly differently, so it is recommended you consult your host software’s documentation for their speciﬁc instructions.

In all host audio software, you’ll be able to access a menu of POD Farm Plug-In’s parameters so that you can choose exactly which Amp and Effects models’ parameter(s) you want to automate. POD Farm Plug-In presents its list of parameters with their names in abbreviated form in order to accommodate length limitations of the host software. Also note that you’ll see two menu items for each parameter, labeled with “1” and “2” at the start of their names. These numeric labels indicate whether the parameter is for Tone 1 or Tone 2. For example, “1 Wah-Pos” and “2 Wah-Pos” are the abbreviated names that appear in the host automation menu for the Tone 1 Wah Position and the Tone 2 Wah Position parameters respectively.

For a description of all POD Farm Plug-In automation parameters, please see Parameter Automation

Table in the What is... chapter. For more info about using Plug-In Parameter Automation, as well as

more pointers for speciﬁc 3rd party audio software, please see the additional documentation at POD

Farm Online Help.

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Supported Plug-In Formats

The POD Farm Plug-In comes in the following formats, making it compatible with just about every major audio “host” software on the planet:

VST•

(Virtual Studio Technology) format for Windows® and Mac® recording environments

AU•

(Audio Units) format on the Mac® platform

RTAS•

(Real Time Audio Suite - for Digidesign Pro Tools and Pro Tools LE) for both Mac and

Windows

Activating the Plug-In

POD Studio and Other Line 6 Hardware: POD Farm Plug-In is included free on all POD Studio family devices, and available as an optional Add-On for all Line 6 TonePort, GuitarPort, POD X3 and PODxt devices. You will need to ﬁrst launch Line 6 Monkey and “activate” POD Farm Plug-In, as well as activate any additional Add-Ons for your device before you’ll be able to use them. You can do all this quite simply with the Line 6 Monkey application that is automatically installed along with your POD Farm software. Please see the Product Activation & Authorization instructions in the Getting Started chapter.

iLok USB Smart Key: If you’ve purchased the POD Farm Plug-In license for your iLok, then you’ll need to conﬁgure your iLok key to add the POD Farm Plug-In authorization (you do not run Line 6 Monkey for this process). Please see the iLok section in the Start Here chapter for the details.

Where Can I Find the POD Farm Plug-In On My Computer?

Most DAW “host” applications will scan and ﬁnd your POD Farm Plug-In automatically on launch. But if you don’t see POD Farm in your host’s Plug-In menus, then you’ll need to conﬁgure your host’s PlugIn options to ﬁnd it (such options are typically found in the host’s Preferences). You have some options during POD Farm installation to tell POD Farm Plug-In where to install, but if you did not deﬁne a custom location, here is the default install location for each of the POD Farm Plug-In formats...

On • Mac

On • Windows®

Audio Units•

VST•

is installed to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/Line 6

RTAS•

VST•

is installed to \Program Files\Line 6\POD Farm\VST\Line 6

RTAS•

is installed in Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/ Components

is installed to Library/Application Support/ Digidesign/Plug-Ins/Line 6

is installed to \Program Files\Common Files\Digidesign\DAE\Plug-Ins\Line 6

For detailed help on using the POD Farm Plug-In with today’s most popular audio recording software applications, please visit the POD Farm Online Help page.

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1 - Main Control Bar

2 - View Selection Buttons

3 - Gear View/Panel View/Presets View

4 - Signal Flow View

Main Control Bar

Input Gain Control & Meter

Preset Name Display & Menu Output Level Control & Meter

Next/Previous Preset Control Preset View Shortcut Dual Tone Control

Input Gain Control - Sets the input gain fed into the Plug-In.

Input Meter - This stereo meter Meter displays input signal level fed into the Plug-In.

Next/Previous Preset Control - Next/previous buttons let you navigate sequentially through the

presets in the currently selected folder. You can select different preset folders in the Presets View.

Tone New/Open/Save Options

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Note - These Next/Previous buttons are intended to allow you to incrementally go from one preset to the next - if you click multiple times repeatedly then things may appear a bit sluggish as POD Farm attempts to “catch up” in running through multiple presets. If you want to jump around or ﬁnd a particular preset, better to use the Presets View.

Presets View Shortcut Control - Provides a shortcut to Presets View.

Preset Name Display & Menu - Indicates the currently selected preset name. When a preset parameter

has changed, an asterisk will appear at the end of the name to indicate the preset is in the “tweaked” (unsaved) state.

Tone New/Open/Save options - Click on this little folder icon to select from the following Tone commands:

New - Creates a new, empty Tone so you can start from scratch and build your own sonic • masterpiece.

Open - Allows you to browse your computer to open a speciﬁc .l6t Tone Preset ﬁle directly. (Note • that this includes .l6t Tone ﬁles you may have created with Line 6 Edit, GearBox or GuitarPort applications too!)

Save - Saves the currently loaded tone, if it is in a “tweaked” state.•

Save As - Creates a copy of the current Tone settings as a new .l6t Tone Preset File wherever • you like on your computer. You’ll ﬁrst be prompted with the Tone Info dialog where it is a good idea to ﬁll in some of the ﬁelds to allow you to store some descriptive info about this Tone, such as the instrument or song you used it for, pickup position, etc. Click OK and the Save As dialog is displayed so you can name the Tone ﬁle and choose where to save it. Note that you’ll want to save the Tone in your POD Farm Source Directory if you want the Presets View to list the saved tone for you.

Dual Tone Control

POD Farm’s Dual Tone feature allows you to create two different Tones in the Plug-In using one common input signal. You have the option of running one tone (single tone), or two tones (dual tone).

The Dual Tone button lets you switch between running in “Dual Tone” versus “Single Tone” • mode.

If only one Tone is in the Signal Flow View, the Dual Tone button state appears ‘off’ and is not • lit. If you click the Dual Tone button on, it adds the Default tone settings to Tone 2.

When two Tones are in the Signal Flow View, the Dual Tone button state appears ‘on’. If you then • click the Dual Tone button when it is on, a menu drops from the button, listing two functions Remove Tone 1 or Remove Tone 2.

Selecting either above options removes that corresponding Tone from the SFV, which then • shows only a single Tone.

If you remove Tone 1, Tone 2 becomes the single Tone, and is now considered “Tone 1”; • its input setting will be the same as the previous Tone 1 prior to its removal. If you discard Tone 2, Tone 1 becomes the single Tone and its input setting does not change.

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Output Level Control and Meters

The Output Level knob controls the main Plug-In output level, which is the total mix of • Tones 1 and 2.

Stereo meters provide peak display with clip indicators. As always, you want to avoid clipping •

- adjust your individual Tone Output Levels, as well as the main Output Level knob here to a achieve a healthy output reading on these meters, but without clipping.

View Selection Buttons

These buttons located along the upper left side of the application window allow you to the select what is displayed within the View area: Gear, Panel, or Preset Views.

Gear View

Selected Gear Category Model Categories

Selected Model Scroll Bar Peripheral Models

Selecting Gear Categories

Press the Gear button once to access Amp and Effect Models.•

Model categories are listed horizontally along the top of the Gear view (e.g. - Guitar Amps, • Bass Amps, Pre-Amps, etc.)

The currently selected category is lit amber. To select a different category, simply click on • the model category name. The ﬁrst model in the category will appear in the Gear View window. Use the scroll bar (or your mouse wheel) to view other models in that category.

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Selecting a Model

When you hover over a model category a rectangle box is displayed and a downward arrow • shows to the right of the category name. Pressing on the arrow displays a drop down list of available models within that category. Select a model by clicking on the model name in the list.

Double-click on the centered model and it is then placed in a default position within the • signal ﬂow of the currently selected Tone. Alternatively, you can drag the any model shown in the Gear View panel into either Tone below and place it in within the signal ﬂow. You’ll see white downward arrows appear in the Signal Flow View indicating which position(s) the model you are dragging can be dropped into (some effects models can optionally be positioned in two spots - “Pre” or “Post”). You can also switch the effect’s position using the Pre and Post buttons - see the following Effects View section.

When adding a model to your Tone where a Model of the same category already exists in the • Tone, then the new model will replace it.

Scroll Bar

Click and drag left or right to browse through models in the selected category. •

Alternatively, use your mouse wheel to scroll through the models.•

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Panel View

Panel View provides a close-up view of the selected model and control over all its available parameters. To access Panel View for any Amp, Cab or Effect model, click the Panel View button, then click on the desired item within the Signal Flow View.

Amp View

Click on a guitar amp, bass amp or preamp within the Signal Flow View to display its controls in the Panel View. Here you can choose to display the Amp or Cabinet/Mic options.

Amp Bypass Button Amp Model Menu Amp/Cab View Buttons

Amp Bypass Button - Press to individually bypass the Amp model processing.

Amp/Cab View Buttons - Press to toggle between displaying the Amp or the Cab View. (If you have

a preamp in use, rather than a guitar or bass amp, you won’t see these Amp/Cab buttons.)

Amp Model Menu - The current model name is displayed. Click the downward arrow to display and select from a list of available amp models, or to swap out the current amp model with another one.

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Cabinet View

From the Amp View, pressing the Cab button displays the Cabinet View. From here you can select different guitar or bass speaker cabinets, change the positioning of the cabinet in the room, and select among four different microphone emulations. There are many sonic possibilities available here by trying different cabs and mics on the current amp, so tweak away!

Cabinet Model Menu Room (Early Reﬂections) Value Mic Model Menu Cab View

Amp Bypass Button Amp Model Menu

Cabinet Model Menu - The currently selected Cabinet model name is displayed. Click the down arrow to switch to a different Cab.

Tip - To conﬁgure your Tone without speaker cabinet or mic simulation added, select “no Cabinet” in the Cabinet menu.

Room (Early Reﬂections) Value

Drag the cabinet toward the back of the room for more ambient room tone, or toward the front • for less. Alternatively, you can click the up/down arrows to adjust the amount of “room” sound (or “early reﬂections” in recording lingo).

Drag the cabinet to the front of the room for less room sound - 0% Room effectively simulates a • close-mic’ed cabinet.

Mic Model Menu

The currently selected microphone model name is displayed.•

Press the downward arrow, to the right of the microphone name, to select one of several • microphone models.

If you have a guitar cabinet in use, you’ll be able to select from 57 On Axis, 57 Off Axis, 421 • Dynamic, and 67 Condenser.

If you have a bass cabinet in use, you’ll be able to select from 20 Dynamic, 112 Dynamic, • Tube 47 Close, and Tube 47 Far.

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Effects View

Selecting any Effect in the Signal Flow View displays its controls in the Panel View...

Effect Bypass Button Effect Model Menu Pre/Post Toggle Host Sync/Tap Tempo Options

FX Time/FX Speed Controls

Effect Bypass Button - Bypasses the displayed effect without removing it from the signal ﬂow.

Effect Model Menu - Displays the name of the current effect model. Click on the downward arrow

next to the name to select another model from within the current effect model category.

Pre and Post Toggle Buttons - With these buttons you can move the effect’s position within the signal ﬂow.

Click the Pre button to place the effect before the Amp*.•

Click Post to place the effect after the Amp, and near the end of the signal chain.•

*Note - Placing effects that offer stereo output (many Modulation and Delay effects are stereo effects, for example) in the Pre position will change their output to mono, so that it can be routed into the Amp as a single, mono input.

Host Sync and Tap Tempo Options (Master Tempo) - For most Delay and Modulation category

effects, you’ll see these options available at the top right of the Panel View. These allow you to set a “Master Tempo” that all time-based effects in the Plug-In can automatically follow - this is how you can get those echo repeats and swirly modulation effects to run “in time” with your song! (Note that individual effects can alternatively have their tempo set independently - see the following FX Time/FX Speed controls description). For this Plug-In Master Tempo, there are two “modes” of operation - sync to the DAW host versus setting a BPM manually:

Host Sync On Host Sync Off

Host Sync - Click the Host Sync button to activate this feature. This sets the POD Farm Plug-In Master Tempo to follow the current project tempo of the VST/AU/RTAS host software. Note that even if your host project includes tempo changes, POD Farm Plug-In will follow those changes as well when Host Sync is active! To have a Modulation or Delay effect utilize this Host Sync Master Tempo, you additionally need to set the effect’s FX Time/FX Speed - Sync On/Off button to “On”.

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*Note that when in POD Farm Standalone mode, you’ll see only the BPM & Tap Tempo options (since obviously there is no “Host” application tempo to follow!)

BPM Tempo Field /Tap Tempo Button - Click the Host Sync button to toggle the Host Sync mode

“off” and you can then use these options to manually set a Master Tempo for POD Farm Plug-In. To set a speciﬁc BPM, click directly on the BPM value and drag up/down. Or, “tap” in the desired tempo by clicking directly on the Tap button - you’ll see the BPM ﬁeld then display the new Master Tempo you just tapped in. For best results, click several times at a steady rate for it to determine your desired tap tempo. To have a Modulation or Delay effect utilize this BPM Master Tempo value, you additionally need to set the effect’s FX Time/FX Speed - Sync On/Off button to “On”.

FX Time/FX Speed Controls - Within the Panel View for Modulation and Delay effects, you’ll see this set of options. These controls work to modify the Master Tempo behavior, or allow you to set the effect’s delay time/modulation speed parameter independently of the current POD Farm BPM setting.

Note Value Display Sync On/Off Button

Time/Speed Knob Time/Speed Display

Sync On/Off Button - Click to toggle FX Time/FX Speed On/Off.

When FX Time/FX Speed Sync is OFF• , the effect’s time/speed parameter will follow the

speed setting shown in this ﬁeld (displayed in milliseconds for delay effects, and Hertz for modulation effects). The Sync button also determines the behavior of the Time/Speed knob.

When FX Time/FX Speed Sync is ON• , this tells the effect parameters to follow the Master Tempo (see previous section). With Sync on, you’ll also be able to modify the effect tempo by a note value - see the Time/Speed knob description below.

Time Knob (Delay effects) / Speed Knob (Modulation effects)

When FX Time/FX Speed Sync is OFF• , the Time/Speed knob adjusts the Delay Time

parameter from 20 - 2000 ms (for Delay effects) or the Speed knob adjusts the parameter from 0.10 - 15.0 Hz (for Modulation effects). You’ll see the tempo in the numerical ﬁeld to the right of the speed knob - alternatively, you can double-click directly in this numerical ﬁeld to type in an exact value. In this OFF mode, the effect is not following the Master Tempo (see Sync On/Off descriptions above).

When FX Time/FX Speed Sync is ON• , the effect follows the Host Sync/BPM Master Tempo of the Plug-In (see Sync On/Off descriptions above). The Time/Speed knob selects a note length division of the current Master Tempo value - from a whole note to a sixteenth note triplet.

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Presets View

Presets View provides a convenient way to browse and load Tones from your local Tone library into POD Farm. Just double-click any preset Name to load it into POD Farm.

Source Contents Preset List Pane Search Field Clear Button Refresh Button

Source Folder Conﬁg Button Tone Info Button Selected Preset

Source Contents - The contents of the POD Farm “Tone Folder” is listed here. POD Farm creates its own Tone Folder on your computer and ﬁlls it with preset Tone ﬁles during installation in \My Documents\Line 6\Tones\POD Farm (on Windows®), or Documents/Line 6/Tones/POD Farm on Mac®.

Preset List Pane - This multi-column list displays the contents of the sub-directory selected in the left Source pane. Click on any preset to select it. Note that you can sort this list in different ways by clicking directly on a column heading (Name, Date Modiﬁed, etc.). Note that Presets that contain Dual Tones have the twirl-down arrow at the left of their names, which you can click to show the individual Tone 1/Tone 2 names it includes. Double-clicking one of these Dual Tone presets loads both these Tone 1 and Tone 2 settings.

A Dual Tone Preset

Search Field/Clear Button - Type in the Search ﬁeld to locate a Tone - this will search based on keywords in Line 6 Tone metadata, such as name, amp, artists, notes about the Tone, etc. Press the Clear button to clear any text in the Search ﬁeld and reset to Preset List display.

Refresh Button - If you’ve modiﬁed Tones, such as by doing a Save As, created New Tones, or made changes to the Source Folder conﬁguration, you may need to click this Refresh button to update the Preset List to show them all.

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Info Button - When a Tone preset is selected, you’ll see the Info button to the left of its name. Click this button to launch the Edit Tone Info dialog, where you can enter and edit text that is saved with the Tone. Text you enter in the dialog’s Notes ﬁeld will then appear in the Preset List’s Notes column. Note that when you do a Save As for any Tone, this Info dialog is automatically launched so you can enter some details about the Tone before saving. It is a great idea to add some things here, such as what guitar you used, your pickup position, what song or parts you used this speciﬁc Tone for, etc.

The Edit Tone Info dialog

Source Folder Conﬁgure Button - If you want to conﬁgure the Source Folder contents, so that the Presets View can display other sets of presets you have stored on your computer (such as .l6t preset ﬁles you may have created with other Line 6 applications, such as GuitarPort®, Line 6 Edit®, or GearBox®) press this button. This displays a conﬁguration view:

Preset View Add Tone Folder Remove Tone Folder

List of Current Tone Folders

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Saving a Preset

To save the currently loaded Tone Preset, click on the folder button to the right of the Preset menu on the Main Control Bar.

Loading a Preset with “Non-authorized” Models

As discussed in the Start Here chapter, Line 6 offers Model Pack Add-Ons for your Line 6 hardware, which expand the set of Amp & Effects Models available within POD Farm Plug-In (as well as in POD Farm in Standalone operation). You’ll discover that among the hundreds of factory POD Farm Tones within the Presets View, that when some are loaded, one or more individual models appear bypassed in the Signal Flow View, and with a red slashed circle icon. This is telling you that the Preset was created using an optional Model Pack that your device does not have included. When you click on one of these “non-authorized” Models in the SFV, you’ll see a message in the Panel View explaining this, and you can see model’s name (Hiway 100 in this example) appears in italics in the Panel View menu to indicate it is not an available model:

A Preset is loaded that includes an Amp Model requiring an optional Add-On Model Pack

You can still use any preset like this that includes unavailable models - they are simply bypassed, and you can choose to remove the model or replace it with another model from the Panel View menu above. Or, you can, of course, launch Line 6 Monkey, go to the Optional Add-Ons tab and purchase some Model Packs to load up your Line 6 hardware with these additional Amp & Effects Models! Please see the Start Here chapter for more info. You can also check the Model List in the Model Gallery chapter to see exactly which models are included “standard” on your Line 6 hardware, and what each optional Model Pack offers.

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Signal Flow View

The bottom of the application window is the Signal Flow View (SFV) which displays the chain of models making up the current Single or Dual Tone paths. To edit any model’s settings, just doubleclick directly on the model within the SFV and its editable controls will be displayed in the upper window (see the Panel View section).

Output Level Knob & Meter Input Source Selector

Tone Mute Button Tone Preset Menu Pan Knob

Tone 1

Selected Model Bypass & Close Controls

Signal Flow View - Single Tone Mode

Output Level Knob & Meter Input Source Selector

Tone Mute Button Tone Preset Menu Pan Knob

Tone 1

Tone 2

Selected Model Bypass & Close Controls

Signal Flow View - Dual Tone Mode

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Tone Mute - Click this button to mute a Tone - Tones 1 or 2 can be muted individually in Dual Tone mode. When muted, the Tone path is displayed dimmed and the Tone is silenced. All models remain visible within the Signal Flow View, and still fully editable.

Tone Input Source Selector - Depending on your DAW host software*, you can select the input source (left channel, right channel, both channels) of the track’s audio that is fed into each of the Plug-In’s Tone Paths.

*It is important to note here that not all DAW host software designs are consistent in the way they offer their audio channel routing and the resulting behaviors within Plug-Ins. For example, some hosts do not deﬁne tracks as either “Mono” or “Stereo” and may offer slightly different behaviors with a Mono versus Stereo audio clip in the track. So, depending on your DAW host software, your POD Farm Plug-In results may differ slightly than listed below - please check your DAW software’s documentation for speciﬁcs. Either way, these Input Source options should provide you with a great deal of ﬂexibility on any host.

When POD Farm Plug-In is inserted on a Stereo audio track:•

In Dual Tone mode• , the Plug-In functions as a stereo Plug-In with Tone 1 and Tone 2 each

capable of processing an audio channel independently. Use the Input Source menu of each Tone to choose what input source (Left or Right incoming audio channel) you want each to process.

In Single Tone Mode• , Tone 1 is a stereo-capable processing path. Use the Input Source menu to choose if you want both channels of the Stereo track to be processed, or just the Left or Right.

When POD Farm Plug-In is inserted on a Mono audio track• , the Input Source Select menus are non-selectable*, since they always just accept the track’s Mono input.

In Dual Tone mode• , the Plug-In functions as stereo-capable processing path. The Mono track signal is “split” and fed into each Tone signal path, allowing you to process each separately, and the output is stereo (but of course will only be routed thru your DAW software in stereo if you’ve conﬁgured the audio track itself with a stereo output).

In Single Tone mode• , you’ll of course have only the Tone 1 signal path, however, this processing path is still stereo-capable, meaning that if you add a stereo effect into Tone 1, it will process the signal with both channels of the stereo effect. The Plug-In output is stereo (but might only be routed thru your DAW software in stereo if the audio track is conﬁgured with a stereo output).

*As noted above, some DAW hosts do not deﬁne audio tracks strictly as “Mono”, therefore, you may have selectable options in some hosts with Mono input tracks.

Tone Preset Name and Menu Display - Each Tone has a Preset Menu, which makes it easy to select

individual Tones, and to create new Dual Tone conﬁgurations. The Menu control displays the currently loaded preset. Click the downward arrow at the right of the Tone name to display a list of available Tones. The Menu displays presets within current folder only.

Pan Knob, Output Level Knob & Meter - Each Tone offers these controls to pan its output left/ right and accurately set its level. Try panning and adjusting the levels differently on Dual Tones for a spacious wall of sound!

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Model Bypass & Delete Controls - Hovering over or selecting a model within the SFV illuminates the model, and a set of controls is displayed. Use these controls to bypass the model, or to remove it completely from the Tone path.

Bypass Button Delete Button

Model Name

Moving Effects Models

Many POD Farm Effects models offer the ability to be placed either “Pre” or “Post” within the signal chain (before or after the Amp model within the Tone path), which can offer slightly different sonic results, depending on the effect and amp settings in use. To move an effect, simply click and drag it left or right and you’ll see white arrows pointing downward, indicating the Pre and Post positions into which the effect can be dropped. Note that when in Dual Tone mode, you can also drag any model between Tones to copy the selected model into the other Tone path! For example, in the screen below, the Tone 1 Analog Chorus modulation effect is being dragged from its original Tone 1 “Post” position to the Tone 2 “Pre” position - this will copy the Analog Chorus, along with its current parameter settings, into the Tone 2 signal path.

Dragging an effect to copy it from Tone 1 to Tone 2

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Pod Fa r m St a n d a L o n e oP e r a t i o n

This chapter covers features unique to POD Farm Standalone Operation. Note that all other features are identical in operation to those of the Plug-In, so please review the POD Farm Plug-In chapter for details on other features.

If you own a Line 6 POD Studio, TonePort or GuitarPort device, the POD Farm Standalone application is available to you. You can run POD Farm in Standalone mode all by itself to use your computer as a virtual rack of amps & effects, and jam along with your favorite tracks, or simultaneously with your favorite Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software and take advantage of POD Farm’s ToneDirect™ Monitoring while recording your tracks! To launch POD Farm in Standalone operation:

On Windows•

On Mac•

, go to the Start button menu > Programs > Line 6 > POD Farm

, go to Applications > Line 6 > POD Farm

POD Farm running in Standalone Operation

ToneDirect™ Monitoring

ToneDirect™ Monitoring is a unique feature of your Line 6 hardware that provides an extremely low latency monitor signal of your POD Farm Tones through your device directly to your Main/Analog Outputs, while your Source signal is simultaneously fed out the Record Sends to your DAW software for recording. This allows you to conﬁgure your Tones in POD Farm while Standalone mode however you want to hear them for your performance, and then choose to feed either this “processed” signal, or a “dry”, unprocessed signal to your DAW. Recording a dry signal in your DAW software allows you to

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then use POD Farm Plug-In on the DAW track to “non-destructively” make changes to your recorded track’s Tone any time up until your ﬁnal mix. Or, you can choose to feed the fully processed Tone from POD Farm’s Standalone mode to the Record Sends, and record your POD Farm Tones exactly as you hear them! Please see the Mixer View section for details on conﬁguring the Record Sends.

Also, since ToneDirect™ handles all the monitoring completely through your Line 6 hardware rather than through your DAW software, you won’t need to use your DAW’s “software monitoring” features. This means you can keep the DAW software’s buffers at higher settings for greater stability and better CPU performance! Please also see the ToneDirect™ Monitoring section in the Hardware Chapter.

Input Source Select & Input Metering

POD Farm Standalone operation offers the following Input Source Controls, which differ from those in POD Farm Plug-In...

Input Source Select Menu Input Meter

POD Farm’s Input Source selectors are found at the top of the Signal Flow panel (Dual Tone conﬁguration)

The • Input Source Select menu allows you to choose which of your Line 6 hardware’s input “sources” is routed to a given Tone path, (e.g. - Instrument, Mic 1, Line Stereo, etc.) Note that the options available in the menu differ depending on the connected Line 6 hardware*, and for Single versus Dual Tone modes.

The Tone 1 Input Source Select menu with UX2 device, Single Tone mode (left) Dual Tone mode (right)

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*Note - Some Line 6 devices offer only a 1/4 inch Instrument input (such as GX, TonePort DI, GuitarPort devices). When one of these devices is in use, no Input Menus nor Input Meters are displayed since this hardware type offers a “ﬁxed” Instrument Input. All other devices offer Instrument, Mono “1” and “2” as well as “Stereo” Sources.

In Single Tone mode, the menu lists each of the Mono and Stereo input sources your speciﬁc • Line 6 device offers.

In Dual Tone mode, there is an Input Source Select menu provided for each Tone (as in the • above example with UX2). The Source menu for Tone 1 lists all Mono inputs your device offers. The Source menu for Tone 2 is dynamic and contingent upon the source selected for Tone 1. For example, “Same as Tone 1” is typically one option, as well as an input related to the current Tone 1 Source - when Tone 1’s Source is “Mic 1”, Tone 2 offers “Mic 2”.

Note that whenever a “2” numbered Mono Source is selected for Tone 1 (Mic 2, Line 2, S/PDIF 2, etc.) Tone 2’s Source is automatically set to “Same as Tone 1” .

You’ll see an Input Meter at the top left of the Tone’s signal ﬂow for each Tone 1 and Tone 2, • whenever that Tone’s Input is set to a Mic, Line or digital input (no meter appears if the Tone

Input is set to an Instrument input).

Unlike the Plug-In interface, there is no Input knob or meter at the top left of the Standalone • application - to adjust input levels, use your guitar’s volume, the Mic Gain knobs on your Line 6 hardware, or the output controls on any source device that is feeding into your Line 6 hardware to control the level coming into POD Farm - clipping should always be avoided.

Tuner View

The Tuner accepts input from anything connected into your Line 6 device’s Instrument input. Click the Tuner button at the left to display the Tuner View and pluck an open single string on your guitar (or bass guitar). Use the indictors and controls to get in tune!

Pitch Indicator “Flat” Indicator Arrow Note Display

Reference Control Mute/Bypass Buttons

Tuning Indicators

The Note Display in the center of the tuner will tell you the note you plucked, while the Pitch Indicator appears within the meter to show you if your tuning is ﬂat (left of the center of the meter)

or sharp (right of center). You’ll see a right-pointing, green arrow appear (as pictured above) if your tuning is ﬂat, or a left-pointing, green arrow if sharp. Additionally, you’ll see the Pitch Indicator turn green when your plucked string is in tune.

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Reference Control

The Tuner’s Reference Control tells the Tuner what to use as the base tuning reference note. 440Hz is the standard reference value for A and is generally used for tuning reference in modern, western music. Unless you have a particular need to adjust the Tuner’s reference, you probably want to stick with the standard 440Hz setting for this control. To adjust the reference, either click on the number and drag up/down, or double click and enter the desired reference frequency.

Mute/Bypass Switches

The Mute and Bypass switches let you choose whether to Mute your guitar input signal or to hear it while tuning (with amp/cab/effect processing bypassed).

Mixer View

Device Send Name Source Menu Preferences and Driver Console Buttons

Mute Main Outs

Send Level Meter Send Level Fader +18 dB Button

Mute Main Outs

The Mute button silences POD Farm’s signal that is fed to your hardware’s Main Outputs.

The POD Farm Tone 1 and Tone 2 signals are still fed to the Headphone outs and Record • Sends.

This feature facilitates recording with microphones, (e.g. - recording vocals, in the same room as • the monitor speaker system). Simply, press the Mute Line Out button and listen via Headphones while recording vocals in the same room.

Record Send Controls

The controls in this section allow you to select the type of signal routed to POD Farm’s Record Sends* 1-2 & 3-4 (or Sends 9-10 & 11-12 for UX8 devices). You can think of the two Record Sends as “virtual pipelines” that each carry a stereo output signal from POD Farm, allowing you to select these POD Farm signals within your recording software as Input sources for recording into audio tracks. Here you can control what signal is fed to each of the two Record Sends, and set their levels.

*Note that the Record Send Source selection and Level controls do not affect the POD Farm Monitoring signal. These controls affect only the POD Farm signals fed to your Record Sends, providing you with independent control over your software recording levels versus your Monitoring signals!

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Audio Source Selection Menus

Select the audio Source you want fed independently to each Record Send. •

If POD Farm is in Single Tone mode, the options available in the Source menus will be •

Processed, Semi-Processed (Amp, Cab, Comp, EQ, and “Pre” positioned effects only), and Dry Inputs. (The Dry Inputs option feeds a stereo signal, with the same signal on both the

left and right channels).

If POD Farm is in Dual Tone mode, the Source menu options will be • Tone 1, Tone 2, Mix

(Tone 1 & 2)*, and Dry Inputs.

*Note that when either Send Source is set for “Mix Tone (1 & 2)”, that the Tone 1 & 2 Mute, Pan and Volume controls within the Signal Flow View affect the Tone levels fed to that Send. For all other Send Source options, the Tone Mute, and Pan & Volume controls affect only the Monitor signal.

Level Controls

Use the • Level Slider to adjust the level of the signal fed to the Record Send. This is how you adjust the level of the signal that gets recorded into your audio software.

Use the • Level Meter to gauge your levels. The red clip indicator will light up if your level is too high - clipping should always be avoided in order to produce good quality recordings!

Use the• +18 dB button if your signal is not hot enough. When this button is lit, an 18 dB “boost” is applied to the Record Send signal. Watch the meters and adjust the Level Slider for a nice, hot signal.

Preferences and Driver Console Buttons

The • Preferences button provides shortcut access to the POD Farm Preferences dialog, where you can conﬁgure various POD Farm applications settings. See the following Preferences section for details.

The• Driver Console button provides shortcut access to the Driver Console (Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices) dialog, where you can conﬁgure ASIO, WDM (Windows®) or Core Audio (Mac®) audio driver settings. For everything about audio drivers & settings you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask, please check out the Driver Panel & Recording chapter.

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Preferences

The Preferences dialog offers some handy conﬁguration settings for the POD Farm application. Launch the Preferences dialog from the File menu, or from the Preferences button in the Mixer View. There are two tabs of settings to behold here - Tones and Hardware...

POD Farm Preference - Tones tab

Automatically load last tone when POD Farm starts - This checkbox is checked by default and is quite handy since it loads the complete last set of Tone settings you were last using in Standalone mode when you launch in Standalone mode again - regardless if things were saved as a Preset or not.

Default Tone Author Name - Type in your name here if you want all newly created Tone presets to automatically have this entered in the Tone Info and saved with the Tone Preset (see the Edit Tone Info dialog in the Presets View section for details).

Tone File Association - The ﬁle types listed here are automatically “associated” with the POD Farm Standalone application... meaning, if you double click on any of these Line 6 ﬁle types outside of POD Farm (such as in a Windows® Explorer or a Mac® Finder window), the ﬁle will automatically launch POD Farm in Standalone operation and load the Tone.

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POD Farm Preferences - Hardware tab

Launch POD Farm using - Here you can choose a speciﬁc Line 6 device for POD Farm Standalone to always use when it launches (provided that device is connected and powered on). If you typically connect only one supported Line 6 device to your computer at a time, then it is easiest to just leave this set to Auto-Detect and POD Farm will do just that. But if you keep more than one Line 6 device connected to your computer, you can set this to have the POD Farm Standalone application always connect to just that device. (Note that POD Farm Plug-In and Model Pack authorizations will still be detected for any connected device, regardless of this setting).

Note that when the POD Farm Standalone application is running, you can see what device is in use at the bottom of the POD Farm window.

Or, if no compatible Line 6 USB device is connected, you’ll see this alert at the bottom of the POD Farm window

When no single compatible Line 6 USB device is detected at startup - Keep this set to Prompt me with a dialog and you can choose a device (or, just connect your Line 6 USB device if you forgot!) Or,

you can set this to use a speciﬁc device - useful if you just want to look at the POD Farm Standalone application as if connected to a device, such as to review some presets or Preferences settings.

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Advanced Hardware and Driver Settings - Click on the button here to launch the Line 6 AudioMIDI devices if you want to conﬁgure audio driver settings. For lots of geeky info about audio driver settings, please visit the Driver Console and Recording Applications chapter.

Updates and Auto-Conﬁguration - Click on this button to launch Line 6 Monkey. If your computer is connected to the Internet, the little Monkey fellow can walk you right through checking your Line 6 products, downloading and installing any needed updates, and even take you to the Line 6 Store for more goodies! Get more info about Line 6 Monkey here.

Saving Tones

Just as with POD Farm Plug-In, you can Save (or do a Save As for) the current Tone settings as a Tone Preset (.l6t ﬁle) by clicking on the little folder icon in the Main Control Bar. When running in Standalone mode, you can also choose these options from the POD Farm File menu.

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mo d e L ga L L e r Y

About the Model Gallery ........................................................................6•3

Guitar Amp & Cab Models ......................................................................6•3

1964 Blackface ‘Lux ....................................................................................................... 6•3

Brit Gain 18 .................................................................................................................... 6•4

1990 Brit J-800 ............................................................................................................... 6•4

Citrus D-30 ..................................................................................................................... 6•5

1967 Class A-30 Top Boost ............................................................................................ 6•5

1987 Jazz Clean .............................................................................................................. 6•6

Line 6 Chemical X ......................................................................................................... 6•6

Line 6 Insane ................................................................................................................. 6•6

Line 6 Piezacoustic 2 ...................................................................................................... 6•6

Line 6 Spinal Puppet .....................................................................................................6•7

Line 6 Treadplate ........................................................................................................... 6•7

1968 Plexi Jump Lead .................................................................................................... 6•7

1968 Plexi Lead 100 ...................................................................................................... 6•7

Power Amp ..................................................................................................................... 6•8

1953 Small Tweed .......................................................................................................... 6•8

1993 Solo 100 Head ...................................................................................................... 6•8

2001 Treadplate Dual ..................................................................................................... 6•9

Tube Preamp .................................................................................................................. 6•9

1958 Tweed B-Man ........................................................................................................ 6•9

Guitar Cab Models .......................................................................................................6•10

Bass Amp & Cab Models ...................................................................... 6•11

Rock Classic .................................................................................................................. 6•11

Flip Top ......................................................................................................................... 6•12

Adam and Eve .............................................................................................................. 6•12

Silverface Bass ............................................................................................................... 6•12

Eighties .......................................................................................................................... 6•13

Bass Cab Models .......................................................................................................... 6•13

Preamp Models ..................................................................................... 6•14

American Classic .......................................................................................................... 6•14

Vintage U.K. ................................................................................................................. 6•14

Lo-Fi .............................................................................................................................. 6•15

Vintage .......................................................................................................................... 6•15

Modern ......................................................................................................................... 6•15

Console ......................................................................................................................... 6•15

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Effects Models ....................................................................................... 6•15

Delay ............................................................................................................................. 6•15

Analog Delay w/Modulation ..................................................................... 6•16

Tube Echo .................................................................................................. 6•16

Digital Delay ............................................................................................. 6•17

Modulation ...................................................................................................................6•17

Sine Chorus ............................................................................................... 6•17

Line 6 Flanger ............................................................................................ 6•17

Phaser ........................................................................................................ 6•17

U-Vibe ....................................................................................................... 6•18

Opto Tremolo ............................................................................................ 6•18

Rotary Drum + Horn ................................................................................. 6•18

Stomp (Distortions, Dynamics, & Filters) .................................................................. 6•19

Facial Fuzz .................................................................................................. 6•19

Fuzz Pi ........................................................................................................ 6•19

Screamer .................................................................................................... 6•20

Classic Distortion ...................................................................................... 6•20

Bass Overdrive ........................................................................................... 6•20

Bronze Master ............................................................................................ 6•21

Sub Octaves ............................................................................................... 6•21

Female De-Esser ........................................................................................6•21

Male De-Esser ............................................................................................ 6•21

Vetta Comp ............................................................................................... 6•22

Reverb .......................................................................................................................... 6•22

Standard Spring ......................................................................................... 6•22

Brite Room ................................................................................................ 6•22

Medium Hall ............................................................................................. 6•22

Cavernous .................................................................................................. 6•22

Slap Plate ................................................................................................... 6•23

Wah ............................................................................................................................... 6•23

Vetta Wah ................................................................................................. 6•23

Weeper ...................................................................................................... 6•23

Other Effects ................................................................................................................. 6•23

Gate .......................................................................................................... 6•23

Comp (Compressor) ................................................................................. 6•24

EQ ............................................................................................................. 6•24

Model List .............................................................................................. 6•25

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About the Model Gallery

You probably know by now that we’re relentless tone fanatics here at Line 6. Once we’ve set our sights on creating a software emulation of a particular piece of gear, we go to great lengths to be sure that we’ve gotten our hands on the very best example of an amp, preamp, effect or speaker cabinet that we can ﬁnd to study. We will (and have) scoured the globe in search of just the right specimen — that one, very particular piece of “holy grail” gear that has the magic. In fact, we pride ourselves on hand selecting each and every one of the amps, effect, preamps and speaker cabinets that we studied to create the software models in POD Farm, and for all Line 6 software and hardware products. The result is an extensive line up of Models, some completely original to Line 6, some based on well-loved classics.

To follow is the list of amp, cab and FX models that are included as “Factory-Standard*” models for POD Studio, TonePort, GuitarPort devices, as well as for the standard POD Farm License for iLok. Note that the new POD Studio UX1 & UX2 devices also come with the FX Junkie Model Pack AddOn included for free!

For the breakdown of the Factory-Standard Models for each supported Line 6 device, please see the Model List section in this chapter. For descriptions of the Factory-Standard Models included in POD X3 and PODxt family devices, please refer to your Pilot’s Handbook, and more info is also available in the Model Pack Handbooks.

*Factory-Standard Models are those that are included as permanently installed models on a Line 6 device. These models cannot be transferred to other Line 6 devices. Likewise, Add-Ons that come included with Line 6 device (such as the FX Junkie Model Pack Add-On that comes free on POD Studio UX1 & UX2 devices), are also “ﬁxed” to the hardware. However, it is possible to transfer the License Key that you are granted for any Add-Ons that you purchase separately between any supporting Line 6 device that you own by using Line 6 Monkey. Please see the

Start Here chapter or Line 6 Online Support for more about Transferring License Keys.

Guitar Amp & Cab Models

1964 Blackface ‘Lux

The Holy Grail for many blues, country, and “roots” players has been a blackface Fender® Deluxe Reverb®. After listening to quite a few candidates back when we were seeking the ultimate Deluxe Reverb® for our 1964 Blackface ‘Lux model to be based on*, we stumbled upon an extremely cool ‘64 Deluxe Reverb®.

We still haven’t found one better.

Most players love a Deluxe Reverb® when it’s turned up to about 7 for a nice gritty sound that cleans up when you back off your guitar’s volume knob just a little. Notice how the tone control response changes as this Amp Model’s Drive is changed: clean settings are crisp and present, while more driven settings will mellow the high end. This is typical of what you get from a Deluxe Reverb® and is nicely captured here. The Deluxe Reverb® itself has only Bass and Treble controls, leaving us, once again, with the prospect of a couple knobs with nothing to say for themselves. But fear not; in this case, we’ve set up the model’s Middle knob so you can add some post-Amp Model Midrange contouring for a little more ﬂexibility, while Presence adds, well, Presence. Once again, set the Middle knob to its “neutral” 12 o’clock position and the Presence knob to 0 for the classic Deluxe

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sound. Tweaked up right, this tone will cut through and sing. We jacked into Input 1 of the Vibrato Channel to get this model cooked up.

* FENDER® and DELUXE REVERB® are registered trademarks of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation and are in no way associated or afﬁliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the speciﬁc products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.

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Brit Gain 18

Based on the Marshall® 1974X “authentic re-issue” of the famous 1974 18W Combo from the late ‘60’s. (Brief editorial aside: Marshall® has had a long tradition of coming up with model numbers that can easily be taken for years. The Model 1974 combo was manufacturer from 1965 to 1968, the Model 1961 and 1962 combos were ﬁrst made in 1965. Is it any wonder we look confused sometimes?) The 1974 has a basic preamp, (gain and tone controls) and a cathode biased twin EL84 power amp. It is a great recording ampliﬁer, with a wonderfully compressed and harmonically rich tone.

*All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or afﬁliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the speciﬁc products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. MARSHALL® is a registered trademark of Marshall Ampliﬁcation PLC.

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1990 Brit J-800

The 1990 Brit J-800 Amp Model is based on* a Marshall® JCM 800.

Turn to this Amp Model to conjure up tones of the coveted JCM 800, one of Marshall’s most universally acclaimed modern amps. This updated version of the Plexi continued Marshall’s heritage with added gain and edge for a new generation of rock guitarists. One of the biggest differences here is that the tone controls are located after the preamp tubes.

Incidentally, some versions of JCM 800’s get their distortion by clipping a diode. The amp we modeled uses a tube for distortion.

The JCM 800 is, of course, the metal sound Marshall made famous. And although not many people play Marshalls clean, it is a great tone, so you should also be sure to check out this model with a low Drive setting. Of course, you can always pump up the drive and rage...

* MARSHALL® is a registered trademark of Marshall Ampliﬁcation PLC and is in no way associated or afﬁliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the speciﬁc products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.

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Citrus D-30

In 1968, in a little music store on Old Compton St. in London, Clifford Cooper was having trouble getting ampliﬁer manufacturers to take him seriously as a dealer, as they thought he was too young, and his shop too small. So he did what seemed only logical to an enthusiastic young man with a background in electrical engineering – he designed and built his own ampliﬁers. Since he had come into a large quantity of bright orange vinyl that was what he used to cover his cabinets. It wasn’t long before high-proﬁle musicians like Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder, and Frank Zappa were beating a path to his door. This model is based on an Orange®AD30TC head, a 30 watt, Class A number with a great personality that gracefully marries vintage British mid-gain breakup with modern shimmer and presence. Back off the drive and you’ll get chimey boutique tones, dig in with the drive up and the AD30 purrs pure Brit Rock tone.

*All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or afﬁliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the speciﬁc products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development. ORANGE® is a registered trademark of Orange Musical Electronic Company, Ltd.

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1967 Class A-30 Top Boost

The 1967 Class A-30 Top Boost model is based on* a Vox® AC 30. Music was changing in the early ‘60s and guitarists were asking for more brilliance & twang. So the Jennings Company, makers of Vox® amps, decided to add Treble and Bass controls (and an extra 12AX7 gain stage, incidentally) in addition to the Treble Cut knob it already had (which in actuality was a sliding bandpass ﬁlter that always seemed like it was working backwards); this additional circuit became known as Top Boost.

The AC 30 with Top Boost was the amp made famous by many British invasion bands. Much of the unique character of the Vox® sound can be attributed to the fact that Class A amps overdrive in a very different way than Class AB. Brian May of Queen, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and The Edge of U2 have all used classic AC 30s to make their music. Although usually played fairly clean, a cranked AC 30 has a great saturated lead tone, a la Brian May on the early Queen albums.

On this Amp Model, the Middle control acts like the original Cut knob on the AC 30. We plugged into the Hi gain input of the AC 30’s Brilliant channel when creating it. We also turned the tone controls around, since original Top Boost amps had the bass and treble turned all the way down when the knob was all the way up. Go ﬁgure.

VOX® is a registered trademark of Korg Europe Limited and is in no way associated or afﬁliated with Line

6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purpose of identifying the speciﬁc products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.

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Line 6 POD Farm GX, UX8, DI, UX2, KB37 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

St a r t He r e

About Line 6 Hardware & Software

System Requirements - POD Farm Plug-In & Standalone Operation

Updating & Registering with Line 6 Monkey

Product Activation & Authorization

Transferring Activations

POD Farm Plug-In for iLok

US i n g Y o U r Li n e 6 Ha r d w a r e

Making the Connection

GX (POD Studio & TonePort)

UX1 (POD Studio & TonePort)

UX2 (POD Studio & TonePort)

TonePort UX8

TonePort KB37

TonePort DI

GuitarPort

Using POD X3 Family Devices with Your Computer...

POD X3

POD X3 Live

POD X3 Pro

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PODxt Live

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PODxt - Audio Signal Routing & Re-Amping

Routing Audio From Your Line 6 Hardware to an External Device

ToneDirect™ Monitoring

Sound Cards & Sound Issues

Li n e 6 dr i v e r Pa n e L & re c o r d i n g

Audio Routing

The Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog

Windows® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog

Mac® - Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog

Important Things to Know for Recording

Pod Fa r m PL U g -in

A Quickie Plug-In Primer

Plug-In Parameter Automation

Supported Plug-In Formats

Activating the Plug-In

Plug-In User Interface Overview

Main Control Bar

View Selection Buttons

Gear View

Panel View

Presets View

Signal Flow View

Pod Fa r m St a n d a L o n e oP e r a t i o n

ToneDirect™ Monitoring

Input Source Select & Input Metering

Tuner View

Mixer View

Preferences

Saving Tones

mo d e L ga L L e r Y

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