Owner's Manual

Deep Editing & MIDI Control: SOUNDDIVER SETUP TROUBLE-SHOOTING
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SOUNDDIVER SETUP TROUBLE-SHOOTING
There are a couple of considerations with SoundDiver and Windows sound card systems.
Here are some troubleshooting hints, courtesy of Line 6’s own product support hero,
George Van Wagner:
1. SoundBlaster type cards have more than one MIDI driver. The system will
usually default to the driver for the built-in synth on the card, rather than the
external MIDI port. This means that you must select the correct driver, before
SoundDiver can see the POD.
2. MIDI cables must run from out to in and vice versa (don’t connect POD’s MIDI
In to your computer’s MIDI In; connect POD’s MIDI In to your computer’s MIDI
Out). Think of it in terms of the direction that information is flowing; out of the
POD in to the computer. Out of the computer in to the POD.
3. MIDI channels must be set to the same value. The quickest way to ensure
communication is to simply set the POD MIDI Channel to A for all (In MIDI-ese,
this is known as Omni mode).
Here are some basic steps to ensure communication with the POD:
1. When you get the dialog box stating that no new device is found, click on the
button that says Manually. You will be dropped in the Memory Manager window
of SoundDiver.
2. On the left hand side of the Memory Manager window, you will see a list of
parameters. Make sure that the Out Port is set to the driver for the External
MIDI. As different companies have different driver names, there's no one set
name, but the selection should be fairly obvious.