Line 6 GearBox 3.7 – Glossary (What Is...?)
The Info Bar is the area at the very bottom of the GearBox window. Point your mouse (you don’t have to click the mouse button) at something in the GearBox program and look at the Info Bar to see a description of the thing you’re pointing at as well as brief instructions on how to use it. For some controls, the current setting of the control is shown (in parentheses) at the end of the Info Bar text.
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What is the Loaded (Track) Menu?
The Loaded Track Menu within the Player interface, which is displayed in the Browser when you select the Player button, shows the name of the currently loaded Track. Click your mouse button on the menu and drag down to select from up to 10 of the Tracks that you loaded before the current one.
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What is the Loop Button?
When the Loop Button is on for the Track loaded within the Player interface, which is displayed in the Browser when you select the Player button, the Track will repeatedly play from the Loop’s start to end.
The loop is shown and set in the Track Sections Display.
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What is MIDI?
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a communications standard supported by a variety of music equipment and software. All the tone controls of the GearBox software (and PODxt hardware) are associated with one of the 127 MIDI CC (continuous controller) messages.
MIDI Pedals and Controllers
PODxt includes MIDI connectors that allow you to connect a MIDI controller (for instance, a controller pedal) directly to it to select channel memories, operate wah and volume, or control other Tone parameters, all of which can also be done using a Line 6 FBV family foot controller. More information on those is available at www.line6.com/podxt, and in your PODxt Pilot’s Handbook.
A MIDI pedal or other MIDI controller can also be used with TonePort or GuitarPort hardware to operate the GearBox Wah and Volume, as well as any other Tone parameter. Connect the MIDI pedal or other MIDI controller hardware to a MIDI input jack on your computer’s hardware MIDI interface, then select that MIDI input port in the MIDI tab of the GearBox application Preferences > MIDI tab. Remember that you will also have to configure the MIDI hardware to send the right MIDI controller messages, which are listed below. For example, the Wah’s Position knob is associated with MIDI CC
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