POD Farm 1.01 – Glossary (What Is...?)
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What is ASIO® ?
ASIO® is a protocol for computer audio that allows audio software to communicate with audio hardware. It is a feature available on many recording programs, which use ASIO® to communicate with a sound card or other audio device. Line 6 POD Studio, TonePort, GuitarPort, POD X3 and PODxt devices all come with ASIO® drivers for Windows® - these drivers are installed when you run the POD Farm application installer, or can be downloaded individually from the Line 6 Support - Software Downloads page.
ASIO® was designed with the assumption that a single sound card would provide input and output to your audio software application. When you choose set your audio software to use the ASIO driver for your Line 6 device, it will act as that single sound card. Your guitar (or whatever you are plugging into your Line 6 hardware’s input) will feed into your computer through your Line 6 hardware, and your audio software will play back through this hardware’s outputs, and not through other sound cards’ outputs on your computer.
ASIO® also provides better performance on Windows® systems since it allows the input signal that is fed into the sound card travel through the computer, your audio software, and back out the sound card outputs in a very short amount of time. This is what is referred to as “low latency” operation. Please see your Windows® recording program’s instructions for details on ASIO® operation.
Note - Line 6 hardware utilizes ASIO® drivers for Windows® systems only. For Mac® computers, Line 6 hardware uses the Core Audio driver, which also offers low latency operation, and is the driver format compatible with most popular Mac® audio software.
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What is BPM?
BPM stands for “Beats Per Minute”, which is the common unit of measure for musical tempo. POD Farm offers a BPM option which allows you to enter in a specific tempo for Delay and Modulation effects to optionally “sync” to, thus allowing your echo repeats and swishy chorus or flanger be in time
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