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Re: Linux Support

support@line6.com — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:44:35 GMT

I have not heard of anyone in the community building their own native editor for Linux and I guess the fpp is too old and has too few users for this to be likely now.

If you google I think you'll find some people have got Vyzex running successfully under wine http://line6.com/support/thread/35546.

As you would expect line6 make no claims that any of this can work and won't know how to assist you with it. I would not bet on being able to do it unless you're a reasonably capable linux user but if you are then it sounds like good fun to try.

This is on my list of cool stuff to try, although I will probably use kubuntu when it comes to it.

Re: After calibration, volume pedal is way too sensitive

support@line6.com — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:15:33 GMT

>Certainly this can't be how it is designed to work.

I suspect that's pretty much the situation. But being generous designing a pedal to act as both a decent wah and volume control must be quite tricky. Wah pedals typically have different types of taper than volume pedals. There's a decent engineering challenge there in overcoming the fact that they are fundamentally different beasts... I'm no sure how the crybaby with combined volume and wah does it or whether that works any better. It seems to have patchy reviews.

Maybe a higher end device would work optically and emulate the different response curves in software. Ultimatley someone had to make a decision between building an uber-complex high end pedal versus building a more compromised one on a budget.

It's a shame that none of the reviewers seem to have mentioned this though.

Re: Please publish an hardware compatibility list or your test data for midi interfaces!

support@line6.com — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:50:04 GMT

Thanks for the comprehensive response. I hadn't visited http://support.vyzor.com. I think the sticky thread is a good idea. That seems like an appropriate response.

A similar sticky definitely belongs somewhere on the line6 forums. There really isn't anything right now on this site that prominently explains the situation; certainly I don't see how the link David posted is meant to warn anyone off buying an incompatible device.

By the way, my original interface cost £30 GBP from maplin (kind of UK equivalent of radioshack?). That's about $45 US. So price isn't much of a guide. Also maybe that gives an idea why some people might be kinda annoyed once they've been allowed to get to the point of buying an incompatible device.

Please publish an hardware compatibility list or your test data for midi interfaces!

support@line6.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:36:53 GMT

OK, I resisted posting here until I had something constructive to post. I got a floor pod plus for christmas and I've been through the process that half the forum posters here seem to have done.

1) Gone out and bought the first midi interface available because none of the documentation told me not to

2) Found it didn't work

3) Checked the forum

4) struggled to get my money back on the interface even though we all know it wasn't in any way "faulty"

5) Ordered an M-audio Uno

...This isn't a great customer experience guys

Now I want to be clear here. I don't mind in the slightest that the floor pod and/or it's editor have compatibility problems with some third party devices. What rankles is that this isn't advertised. Why not publish this more prominently so that fewer people go through what I had to? Even if there were only one or two tested devices on the list it would be better than nothing. I think it could cut down on a lot of support and win some customer goodwill.

Please don't imagine that I am a disatisfied customer because both the fpp and vyzex are shaping up to be excelent pieces of kit. This is purely a website/documentation issue.

Re: After calibration, volume pedal is way too sensitive

support@line6.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:40:32 GMT

I raised a similar issue http://line6.com/support/thread/77407?tstart=30

I ended up "cheating" the calibration a little by not actually putting it all the way down in the heal position. That moved the bite-point north a bit but it's still way too abrupt from my tastes.

It's like what you might get on crybaby where the pot had the wrong taper...

...well sorry I can't solve it for you but maybe it's something to know this is a common feature to the model and not a specific fault on your unit or mine.

I hope you get to grips with it.

Re: High frequencies roll off if output level is low? FPP

support@line6.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:43:02 GMT

Forget this.

There definitely does seem to be some tone sucking as the output level is reduced but I found I could overcome it by setting the output to direct, going into the input on the cube 30 and using some delicate EQing on the cube. I'm now running OK without having any knobs in wild positions.

I figure that as a modeling amp the cube has a flat response speaker in it and needs me to run cab simulations for it to sound any good.

Still not 100% satisfied with the arrangement because I'm stacking pre-amps but it's up to what I was expecting now.

High frequencies roll off if output level is low? FPP

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:57:12 GMT

This is another "is it normal?" question.

I'm playing a floor pod plus into a rolland cube and regardless of whether I plug to the aux-in or to the instrument input I still need to crank the output volume on the fpp if I want decent tones. This is pretty inconvenient because it means I lose any range on the cubes volume control. I'm running with the pod's output on the ceiling and have to keep the cube right down to compensate.

Any thoughts or guidance on this?

I'm sure I've read that I shouldn't expect to see any tone changes based on the output volume setting. My cable is a 5m venom that's never given any trouble before. I can easily get great tones running that cable direct from the guitar to the cube. I'm running blackouts in the guitar so my output from therre is fairly hot. Only 9v though.

wah / volume calibration on floor pod plus

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:27:48 GMT

I just got a floor pod plus. I've followed the calibration guide but the pedal is still very switch like. Both wah and volume work but they open and close very suddenly with very little movement of the treadle.

If I watch the lights durring the calibration procedure then all the movement seems to happen within one or two degrees in the centre of the pedals range.

Is this normal for FPP?

I was really hoping for more graduated wah and volume control.