Excellent offer! Thank-you Line 6!

Thanks Line 6!!! I'm guessing it only works for Line 6 gear that does NOT already have the model packs? Is there a way I can just download Ampfarm directly into my computer? Do I have to use an iLok???

cgtrox

A quick rundown on the plugin.

When you install Pod Farm - it installs the vst plugin in your default plugins folder if you have one if you tell it to - or else it installs it in a Line folder. Search for Pod Farm.dll and you'll find it. You can either copy it to your regular plugins folder - or point your recording software to the folder the dll is in.

When you download the free vst - you have to authorize it with monkey over the internet with the addons tab.

The Pod Farm plugin is like Guitar Rig, Amplitube etc. and only works as a vst plugin in your recording software.

Whatever model packs you have on the device will also be in the plugin. Buying more model packs for the device will also make them available in the plugin.

You "insert" in on an audio track.

For Pods - you have to use the dry sends (7 and 8 stereo) and you will be recording a dry track. You can monitor the Pod - or you can monitor the plugin according to the preset you have chosen. You are recording over usb - not the other outputs. So you select the Pod in the software if you normally use a different sound card.

For Toneports - you record the 1 and 2 input and monitor the plugin - or sends 3/4 which are dry - and monitor the Toneport. Leaving the Pod Farm and Gearbox standalones closed - will send the dry signal over sends 1 and 2.

If you monitor the device - you will be recording something different which sounds like the tuner (dry) unless you select a preset in the plugin which is the same as the settings on the Pod. But either way - the track will always be dry and gets processed by the plugin in real time. It's only when you mix it down that the tone becomes permanent.

I always monitor the plugin when I record - then turn off the monitor button when I'm done. Then I can change the presets all I want - without harming the recording. Cubase has a button for that.

I also record two tracks at a time with as many as 4 amps in total - then mix them up and experiment with the fx to see what it sounds like. It's great for satisfying your curiousity about "what if I had more or less of this or that?"

Ampfarm is a Protools thing supported by Digidesign - not Line 6.

Thanks. I couldn't find it in my Reaper VST list. I'll tomorrow to find where it is.

Is this offer only for september or can you use it in october for example too, if you ahve downloaded it in september?

Thank you Bumpy the .dll search was successful and I put it in the proper vst folder in my DAW. Normally Sonar spots any new vst period ...anyway I got the vst plug-in working using the Podxtl and it is cool that it recognizes all my model pack add-ons for use and that I can apply dual tones when re-amping ...too

I wish there was someway way I could listen and adjust before recording it and applying it ...like monitoring in realtime my adjustments ...then when I find a dual tone I am happy with apply it and move on.

Or maybe there is and I just haevnt figured it out yet.

Apologist - there should be a "monitor" button on the track that lets you hear the processing of the plugin when you play. Otherwise you would hear a dry plunk plunk - unless you are monitoring the Pod - then you hear the Pod amps and effects.

After recording - you have to turn the monitor off or you won't hear the recording.

EDIT - if the monitor isn't on - you don't hear anything when you play - if you monitor a track with no plugin on it - you hear plunk plunk.

Dasvox open control panel - folder options - and check off "show hidden files and folder" and uncheck "hide extensions for known file types" - then the search will find it.

But if you re-install again - there is a screen that says it will install the vst in a line 6 folder. You can browse to your Reaper plugins folder and it will go there instead.