Line 6 UX1, TonePort UX8, TonePort DI, GX, UX2 Using Your Line 6 Hardware, Making the Connection

POD Farm 1.01 – UsingYour Line 6 Hardware

Using Your Line 6 Hardware

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...

GX	TonePort UX8	GuitarPort
UX1	TonePort KB37	POD X3 Family Devices
UX2	TonePort DI	PODxt Family Devices

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