Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide - POD Farm 2 Plug-In

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POD Studio™ and Other Line 6 Hardware: The POD Farm 2 license is included free with the

purchase of any Line 6 POD Studio device (as of the release date of POD Farm 2), and available for

purchase as an “Add-On” (or upgrade) if you own a Line 6 POD Studio that came with POD Farm

version 1. The POD Farm 2 license is also available for purchase as an optional Add-On for Line 6

TonePort™, GuitarPort™, POD

X3 or POD

xt devices. Before using POD Farm 2 or Elements Plug-

Ins with any of these Line 6 devices, you will need to rst “activate” the POD Farm 2 license, as well

as activate any additional Add-Ons for your device, before these items are fully functional on your

computer. You can do all this quite simply with the Line 6 Monkey application that is automatically

installed along with your POD Farm 2 software. Please see “Product Activation & Authorization” on

page 1•3 .

iLok USB Smart Key: If you’ve purchased the POD Farm 2 license for your iLok key, then you’ll need

to congure your iLok key to add the POD Farm 2 license. This license allows you to run the POD

Farm 2 Plug-In and all POD Farm Elements Plug-Ins within any supported Windows

or Mac

DAW

host application, with your iLok connected for authorization. Note that you do not use Line 6 Monkey

for this process - Please see “POD Farm 2 Plug-In for iLok” on page 1•7 for details.

For detailed help on using POD Farm 2 Plug-In with today’s most popular audio recording

software applications, please see the additional info found on the POD Farm Online Help page.

POD Farm 2 Plug-In User Interface Overview

When you insert POD Farm 2 Plug-In on an audio or aux. bus track in your favorite DAW software,

you’ll see the main POD Farm 2 Graphical User Interface (referred to as the “GUI” by those geeky

software types) where you can access all plug-in’s the primary functions. Here we’ll break down the

sections of the GUI and dive into the many powerful features that lie within.

“1 - Main Control Bar”

“2 - Panel View Display” “3 - Signal Flow View Display”