Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Driver Panel & Recording
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Line 6 driver PaneL & recording
So, just how does all that huge amount of Tone get routed around between your Line 6 gear, computer
and recording software you ask? All this is performed by the audio driver - a software component
installed with POD Farm™ 2 that allows the audio to be routed to the right place. This section
provides an overview of the different driver types and where you can tweak a few settings to work best
with your particular computer setup. For more instructions about POD Farm 2 and Line 6 hardware
with specic audio recording programs, please check out the additional documentation found on the
POD Farm Online Help page.
Windows
®
64 bit users: The installation of POD Farm 2 also installs Windows
®
64 bit compatible
audio drivers for your Line 6 hardware. The Windows
®
features described here in this chapter are the
same for 32 bit or 64 bit Windows
®
systems.
Audio Routing
POD Studio™, TonePort™ and GuitarPort™ hardware - Input sources fed into the Line 6 hardware
are handled by the audio driver, which manages several tasks; Applying the POD Farm 2 Tone processing
to your signal, feeding the processed audio out the Record Sends to your audio software, gathering
playback audio from your audio software and then routing the audio back to the Line 6 hardware’s
outputs and to your monitoring system. The audio driver also grabs the POD Farm 2 processed signal
before routing it to the Record Sends and hands this off to ToneDirect™ Monitoring immediately, to
provide a low latency monitor signal, which is then routed to the Line 6 hardware and mixed with the
rest of your audio and fed to your monitoring system.
POD® X3/POD®xt hardware - Input sources fed into these POD devices are fully processed right
on the POD hardware itself. The POD-processed audio is then handled by the audio driver, which
manages several tasks: Feeding the audio out to the USB Record Send(s) to your audio software,
gathering playback audio from the audio software, and then routing the mixed audio back to the POD’s
outputs and to your monitoring system. The POD USB monitoring system also grabs this processed
signal before routing it to the Record Sends, to provide a low latency monitor signal, and then mixes
it with the rest of your audio to your monitoring system.
The Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices Dialog
Since your Line 6 device includes this high-performance audio driver, it can act as a USB audio
interface for just about any audio software that might be installed on your Mac
®
or Windows
®
computer.
This Line 6 Audio-MIDI Devices dialog is the place where you can access the audio driver settings for
your connected device to see and congure things such as the current Sample Rate, Bit Depth, Buffer
settings, etc. The POD Farm 2 standalone software is independent of these settings, however, you’ll see
information regarding your Record Sends here which may change depending on whether POD Farm
2 is currently running in standalone mode or not. For POD Studio, TonePort and GuitarPort devices,
you can think of the POD Farm 2 standalone software like a giant rack of gear – if it is not running
and congured to use your POD Studio/TonePort/GuitarPort hardware, your guitar signal will still
be heard, but will be “naked,” without all those lovely amp & effects sounds. For POD X3 & PODxt
devices, since your Tone is always running on the POD itself, you’ll hear whatever your POD’s Tone
and audio routing settings are set to deliver. POD Farm 2 standalone software does not run with POD
X3 and PODxt connected hardware (however, you can utilize the POD Farm 2 Plug-In with these
devices). There, aren’t you feeling smarter already?