Yes there is a big difference between the two, and it’s important to note those differences so that when you dial up a preset you know what to expect. I need to also give kudos in that all of the sounds on the sites are included in the presets and they have also noted processed vs unprocessed sounds. Also the May lesson uses the same signal chain for all the mp3s that will be posted there. Line 6 has some great audio/video demos on their site, so I wont go into too much here for demos as they’ve done it really well. It’s pretty easy to get a tone in the ball park and tweak it from there. But the presets on all of these models are light years away from older line 6 presets that I’ve heard. You can create things that you never could create with pedals without a ton of gear and/or a ton of noise.Īs with many other sims – getting usable clean tones is pretty easy and getting dirty tones that respond the way an amp would is a little trickier. So this particular sample doesn’t sound very guitarish – but that’s part of the reason I really like this approach.
This was made with a FNH ultrasonic guitar, Behringer FCA202, Macbook Pro (2007), and AU Lab. So here is an mp3 of a guitar track I improvised with this setting: I just added a preamp in the beginning of the chain. Here’s a screen shot of a modification I made on the Outer Space preset. Stereo rigs which you can A/B/Y!!! which alone would have been really cool – but you can use multiple effects in the same rig – something you can’t do on the POD for example. I didn’t get to work with this yet – but this brings the live laptop rig very feasible for me.ģ. 2.0 supports midi – which means you can control it with a foot controller like the FBV shortboard MKII or the Behringer FCB1010.
It records output and even generates midi clock! Also it makes a very small cpu impact – so it’s perfect for hosting something like Pod Farm and say SooperLooper.Ģ. It was designed to test AU plug ins with but its a stand alone app with a fully configurable mixer ( inputs, outputs, effects busses). For those of you who don’t know about it (I had to find out about it on the super looper forum) – AU Lab is a free app that comes with the OSX Xcode Tools. The demo version was a little glitchy in standalone version, so I’ve been using it with AU LAB.
I won’t be able to post a full review now, but I wanted to post a couple of brief observations.ġ. I’ve taken advantage of Line 6’s free 14 day download of POD Farm Platinum 2.0 ilok version and have been working on formulating somethings for a review.