Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Using Your Line 6 Hardware
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MIDI In & Out - Connect to your computer’s MIDI ports or the MIDI ports of another MIDI device
using standard 5-pin cables to send & receive MIDI communication. POD X3 Live can respond to
incoming MIDI control messages received on this MIDI input, allowing most of its features to be
controlled remotely by software or another MIDI device. Additionally, most parameter adjustments
on POD X3 Live will transmit MIDI control messages to this MIDI Out. This means you can actually
control the many parameters in POD Farm 2 Plug-In or your DAW software by connecting this MIDI
out to a MIDI input port on your computer, and then setting your DAW software to receive this MIDI
communication. Go to the POD X3 System screen to set the MIDI Channel that is used for MIDI
transmission. Please see the POD Farm 2 Plug-In MIDI Control section for more information. Also see
your POD X3 Pilot’s Handbook for more about its X3 System screen MIDI & Pedal options.
TIP: To find out specifically what MIDI control messages are transmitted from each POD X3 Live
parameter adjustment, please see the Line 6 MIDI CC Reference document, available from the POD Farm
Online Help
page of the Line 6 site.
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 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 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.
Guitar Input - Connect your
guitar or bass
Mic Input - Connect your
Microphone
Guitar In Pad switch
Mic Input Low Cut Filter and
Pad switches
Mic Input Trim knob
Signal Present and Clip
Indicator lights
Phantom Power switch
The POD X3 Pro Input Channel Strips
Guitar Input – Connect up to two guitars or basses here in the 1/4-inch 1 and 2 inputs using standard
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