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Re: I like the new look Line 6

support@line6.com — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:10:39 GMT

Yup, looks much better here too (finally it fills up the horizontal space rather than being a narrow vertical strip).

Re: Next Update: I have a feeling it's soon

support@line6.com — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:26:34 GMT

If it involves bacon, then yes.

Re: My HD500 is SQUEELING and my eardrums are going to BLEED! I need help!

support@line6.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:07:36 GMT

Dunno bout everyone, but I'm running Windows 7 64bit. It seems to be linked to HD Edit and some midi mesage problem.

Re: My HD500 is SQUEELING and my eardrums are going to BLEED! I need help!

support@line6.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:31:48 GMT

Seriously, this is getting unbearable. It's happening every session now with HD Edit after about half an hour or so I get a midi transfer problem and then a few seconds later ridiculously loud noise, it's going to damage my Focal CM50 monitors at this rate

I'm not sure what to do, I love my HD500 but right now I can't use it with the computer (which is 99.99% of what I do with it). It's a serious crimp and if I had the dough I'd just go and get an alternative at this point, sadly I don't so like everyone else here I'm stuck playing accoustic for now.

Please find a fix for this Line6!

Compressors, Transient designer & Pick Attack control

support@line6.com — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:42:31 GMT

Anyone got a cunning way to create a "pick attack" effect with the HD500?

I was thinking maybe with one of the compressors as it's a related effect. For those that don't know the transient is the attack part of a note, for guitar that's often where the pick sound is, so on the much touted KPA for isntance you have a control for it that they call "Pick Attack", which in their case is a part of their amp sim (possibly the best place for it, but i'd still like to be able to do is as an effect).

Now I'd been thinking, with a compressor you can maintain transients with the attack control (which causes the initial loudest part of the note to be ignored and the remainder of the note to get compressed) and set a low make-up value so that it just made the rest of the note quite, and if you just boosted the final result you'd get a louder transient or pick sound with a same volume rest of the note.

The trouble is none of the compresors on the HD series offer attack or release (or even make-up). They're all really just boosters/limiters. Does anyone know of another effect in there that could be made to do this? Some workaround?

Re: My HD500 is SQUEELING and my eardrums are going to BLEED! I need help!

support@line6.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:25:51 GMT

I'm getting it through the XLR's (going to an FRFR setup).

Re: My HD500 is SQUEELING and my eardrums are going to BLEED! I need help!

support@line6.com — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:08:43 GMT

Yup, I also had this for the first time last weekend with the latest firmware. Similar reasons too, I changed something in HD Edit too quickly or something and bam, it squeeled like a Atlanta businessman on a canoe trip and it wouldn't stop till I reflashed the memory and started up in safe mode (startup with left arrow held).

It's a little concerning as I now feel I have to be super careful about using HD Edit, which is a pain as I normally never even bother with any of the controls on the unit itself apart from the wah/volume pedal and tuner.

'63 Spring verb broken?

support@line6.com — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:09:29 GMT

Is this effect broken in 1.4? For me the guitar signal remains at 100% all the way up to a mix value of 99%, then cuts out at 100%. The guitar signal should be mixed directly with the reverb value to create a smooth blend instead.

Re: POD HD (Bean, Pro and 500) Edit v. 1.06 available

support@line6.com — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:45:29 GMT

Where's the list of what's changed in this version? I assume quite a lot under the hood as it's 3 versions on from the previous, but I only see the Hard Gate added.

If I can make some suggestions (again). I think HD Edit could od with a little polish.

1) Cacheing - It takes about a minute to download all of the patches, every single time it opens, and if you touch anything on the Pod during that time it crashes. What should happen is that Pod HD Edit sends a "lock" message to the HD first, then compares a stored unsigned integer "dirtyness" value on the unit to the local "dirtyness" value, this value is incremented each time a preset is saved (with adjustments), or firmware is updated. If the values do not match then just download all the presets if your system cannot handle dirtyness bits per patch, otherwise use the local cache as it should match what's already on the unit. Once done send the unlock message to the Pod. Done. This will speed startup massively (and coincidentally automatically give users a local version of every preset that they can acess without HD Edit being open).

2) Menus - This really needs to be adjusted/rearranged.

a. The "Off" value (labled "---") should never be the last entry in a menu. It should be the first, normal human behavior and training with existing interfaces has people generally beleive that things have some sort of order to them, usually least to most. Hence it's actually more natural to go to the first entry to expect nothing. On top of that it really should be possible to simple remove an effect without having to scroll through a menu. Select, press the delete key or whatever.

b. Scroll position on open - With large menus such as the amp list it currently attempts to scroll so that the currecntly selected entry is at the top of the menu when it's opened. This is extremel annoying as it means most of the time you're left to look at the "Pre" amps, which personally I never touch as I'm not a Metal Fartmeister. It means that to use the full amps you're constantly scrolling. Instead items should be placed as centrally in the menu as possible. If your'e close to the top then lock to the top, if you're close to the bottom then lock to the bottom. But on open of a long menu a user would expect to see the current selection bang in the middle so they can select to either side of that entry without scrolling (or using arrow keys and working blindly).

c. Menu length and grouping - The amp menu really needs to be grouped into submenus. Pre's and Full's (or there should be a small switch next to the master section to "disable" in the HD Edit software, i.e. just pick the amp then quickly enable or disable the pre only model without having to dive through a menu in HD Edit. It'll come to the same thing, but right now having a massive menu is not very ergonomic and slows down patch creation and exploration.

3) Exit behavior - When you quit HD Edit currently and there's a patch that's not synced HD Edit just exits, it doesn't ask you if perhaps you've made a mistake, or if you want to sync any patches that haven't been synced. It just quits. That's nice and fast, but it really needs to offer the courtesey. It's just too easy to rush off and quit without thinking or accidentally press the close button or shut down in some other way and lose your fantastic patch edits you've been making. With just a simple "You have unsynced patches open : Send them, Cancel, Quit anyway" quite a lot of heartache could be avoided and it'd look much more polished.

Re: recording software

support@line6.com — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:37:54 GMT

I like Propellerhead Reason, it's simple, easy, comes with a tonne of great software instruments and loops, in the past it was very interoperable with Pod stuff too due to having Line6 amp sims in there (if you connected an XT or X3 unit then you'd get access to all of the effects and sims on that unit too directly in app via a sort of inbuilt PodFarm), I'm hoping that they upgrade that at some point to offer HD amp sims in software when an HD is connected. Of course I also hope that Line6 will offer clean signal recording with processed monitoring too at some point.

Apart from that I use Abelton Live and Logic Pro, but as the previous poster said, you can use any DAW out there, Reaper, Cubase, ProTools etc.