Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Glossary (What Is...?)
10•4
Cab Bypass Button Mic Model Menu
Room % Value Cabinet Model Menu Cab View Button
Cab Edit Panel
These control functions are covered in detail in the “Panel View” on page 4•10 .
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What is ASIO
®
?
ASIO
®
(Audio Stream Input/Output) is a computer sound card driver protocol for digital audio
specied by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, providing a low-latency and high delity interface
between a software application and a computer’s sound card. It is supported by most Windows
®
DAW
applications, which utilize ASIO to achieve the audio performance necessary for professional audio
tasks. Line 6 POD Studio™, TonePort™, GuitarPort™, POD
®
X3 and POD
®
xt devices all come with
ASIO
®
drivers for Windows
®
- these drivers are installed when you run the POD Farm 2 application
installer, or can be downloaded individually from the Line 6 Support - Software Downloads page.
ASIO was designed with the assumption that a single sound card would provide input and output to
your audio software application. When you choose set your audio software to use the ASIO driver for
your Line 6 device, it will act as that single sound card. Your guitar (or whatever you are plugging into
your Line 6 hardware’s input) will feed into your computer through your Line 6 hardware, and your
audio software will play back through this hardware’s outputs, and not through other sound cards’
outputs on your computer.
ASIO
®
also provides low “latency” performance on Windows
®
systems - that is, it allows the input
signal that is fed into the sound card travel through the computer, your audio software, and back out
the sound card outputs in a very short amount of time. Please see your Windows
®
recording program’s
instructions for details on ASIO
®
operation.
Note: Line 6 USB hardware utilizes ASIO
®
drivers for Windows
®
systems only. For Mac
®
computers, Line 6 hardware uses the driver, which also offers low latency operation, and is the
driver format compatible with most popular Mac
®
audio software. See “What is Core Audio ?” .
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