Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Start Here
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Remember the following about your Line 6 hardware that now holds your POD Farm 2 license:
• For POD Farm 2 & Elements Plug-In operation, your Line 6 hardware must always be connected
via USB (even if you’re using a 3rd-party audio interface). You don’t necessarily need to be using
your Line 6 hardware as your active USB audio device - it just needs to be USB-connected (and
powered on for units that have a power switch).
• For POD Farm 2 in standalone operation, it is required that you use your POD Studio, TonePort
or GuitarPort as your USB audio interface to be able to hear the ToneDirect Monitoring signal
fed from the application.
• It is possible to transfer your licenses to another Line 6 device - please see “Transferring POD
Farm 2 & Add-On Licenses” on page 1•6.
Transferring Activation to Another Computer
So, you’ve just upgraded your computer to the latest and greatest (this week anyway…) model, and
want to move POD Farm 2 software and your Add-Ons to your new system? In this section, we’ll
explain how to make the transfer process as easy as A-B-C, whether the new computer can connect to
the Internet or not.
The destination computer has an Internet connection
This is the easiest scenario: Download and install the POD Farm 2 application (always available at
line6.com/software). This will also install the necessary drivers for your hardware and the Line 6
Monkey application.
POD Farm 2 Plug-in doesn’t work!!! Where are my Model Packs??? Relax – Your Add-Ons (Model
Packs, Plug-in, etc.) are tied to your Line 6 hardware’s, built-in Electronic Serial Number (ESN), but
also need to be authorized with each new computer on which you’ll be using POD Farm 2. In other
words, they work but just haven’t been enabled on the new computer yet.
Launch Line 6 Monkey - The Monkey utility will connect to the server and scan your hardware for
any activated Add-Ons, and if it nds any, will display the following message in red text:
Just click Authorize, and Monkey will enable the use of your activated Add-On(s) on the new
computer system.
The destination computer lacks an Internet connection
So you just got the call from Mr. Big Time Producer for a session at so-and-so’s studio, and you want
to bring all this great Line 6 tone along for tracking – but their computer does not connect to the
Internet. You can still move your POD Farm 2 activation to their recording environment by following
these steps: