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Re: Share your gear

support@line6.com — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:47:20 GMT

Here is my current setup. Still includes a Line6 M13 and a G90 wireless. If I knew then, what I know now, I would not have purchased a TC Electronic GMaj2. I would have sold my M13 or something else, and purchased a 2-rack space HD pro. It could have replaced the TC GMaj2 and the M13, taken up less rack space openings, and lessened the weight of this rack, simplified the switching and programming.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Hope you enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlrzGIHmA8

Re: M13 Power Problem

support@line6.com — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:07:01 GMT

this happened to me over the Christmas holidays 2010. I had a line6 person email me 2.04 before it was posted on their website, or maybe the one he sent was 2.02 which was never released. Too much time has passed and I don't remember. I have not had an issue since.

At the time, the M13 was on a pedalboard and remained there for another 18 months and I never saw the power cycle issue again. I did panic the day it happened and quickly purchased a new power supply, but it kept happening even after I was using the new power supply. software 2.04 fixed my problem.

My M13 is now rack mounted on a pull out shelf and being controlled via MIDI. To my knowledge it is still going rock solid. I love this device, now that I'm using it as a midi device, I just wish the tempo set for a scene would save if you tap a different tempo, but then change to another scene and come back into the scene again fresh. But alas, since it works like an old school pedal, the last tap tempo override is what is stored, not the last tempo setting you set manually.

If someone knows a work around for that issue, I'm all ears.

Thanks

Re: Share your gear

support@line6.com — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:53:35 GMT

The tap tempo does not send MIDI by default. I can't really remember the procedure to explain how to tell you to do it, but it is in the manual. If your M13 is patch changing with the HD, then they are already talking on the same MIDI channels, or OMNI. You have to program the TAP button to send the tempo pulses out the MIDI port and to the M13 or other devices.

If you use the HD in a logical, systematic way, you are probably going to reuse the same template over and over again. I suggest you map the tempo button and then save that preset as your template, and then everytime you start to create a new patch, start with your blank template, that has the TAP button output mapped.

I take mine a step futher - I always run my M13 in the effects loop, and I usually run the same types of effects, mapped to the same stomp switches. So basically the only thing I alter is the amp sim model and cabinet/mic. I have two of these templates - one for heavier sounds, and the other for cleaner or slightly overdriven sounds. I start out with the appropriate one, and build it from there. So my stomp switches and TAP tempo, volume and wah, are always ready to go. If I substitue a different overdrive, or different wah, then I just have reassign that new effect to a stomp switch or to the volume 2 for the wah.

That way all my mapping is consistent and the FX loop feed to and from my M13 will work the same everytime I build a new patch.

Hope this helps.

Re: Share your gear

support@line6.com — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:23:10 GMT

You just have to connect a midi cable from the output of the first unit into the input of the next, and so on....daisy chaining each one to the next. If you are using the HD500 as the main controller, when you tap the tempo switch, it will synchronize the M13 to that same tap tempo. If the Nova Delay has a midi in jack, you can connect the midi out from the M13, to the midi in of the Nova.

You can use any one of your MIDI devices as the tapper, and everything downline from that one will conform.

However, the patch change info will also be sent downline. So consider the impact of that decision to MIDI link all your devices.

I created about 8 tones on my HD500 and import them into a setlist saved for that weekend's songs. I created my ideal M13 footprint and then duplicated it about 30 times, so when I change patches on my HD500, the M13 effects footprint looks the same (sometimes we'll do a song that has a crazy effect, and I'll use the M13 to perform that task rather than mess with the HD500). BUT, by running my gear this way, each patch can be tempo specific and also any patch change recalls the same M13 patch, which again, can be tempo specific. Quite a bit of our songs are performed to a click track on ProTools w/ Reason performances, so I can arrange my gear to get me through a set and have my tempos saved, so I never have to use my tap tempo anyways.

However, if we play something "live" I can tap my HD and the M13 will also fall in line.

Hope this helps you on your qwest.

Thanks,

Rodney

Re: Share your gear

support@line6.com — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:31:33 GMT

In November 2010 I sold my X3Live and purchased an HD500. I no longer use dual tone amp simulations because one amp is all I need to get the sound I want. I usually stacked 2 amps on the X3Live so I could get the wider sound I wanted. At any rate, I no longer use an on-stage amp. We went to in-ear monitors and the direct feed from the HD500 is all I need. I purchased a MAC computer and LOGIC in Dec 2011 and having the opportunity to record with the HD500 via USB, and then listening to the patches in a full recording mix, has really helped me escape the "bedroom tone" trap. You know, that guitar tone that sounds amazing when you are just playing alone, but then gets lost in a live mix? Anyways, I still run a BB Plus Overdrive/Dist pedal before the HD500. Then I have an M13 and a digitech timebender in the effects loop of the HD. I could probably spend time making custom patches within the HD every week (because we play a different set list and some special songs that we play only one time and then never again), but I prefer to leave the HD alone, and use the M13 to bring in different, or song specific effects that week. I do take the time to set up my tempos for the songs we are playing to a click, and use the TAP button to synch to the live songs. I have my HD500 and M13 connected via MIDI so the tap command on the HD synchs both units.

http://youtu.be/WHR-motX62Y

I am playing the intro and the lead stuff

http://youtu.be/_v3kglNN9No

I am playing the high chimey U2-ish part

Re: M13 effect on/off Midi commands triggered by HD500

support@line6.com — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:05:57 GMT

Thanks - that helps alot. The most important thing was also about the HD only being able to send one CC command on one button. Your first suggestion is the only way for me to accomplish what I want to do, in a kind of sort of way. Thanks!!!!

Re: M13 effect on/off Midi commands triggered by HD500

support@line6.com — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:11:39 GMT

I was kind of hoping that there were 12 CC numbers that corresponded to the 12 possible effects contained in an M13 scene, so I could turn on/off the effect assigned to the first button on the first row, and the second button on the second row simulaneously and the second button on the 4th row, etc, by pushing one button on the HD500.

Bypassing the entire unit might sort of work, provided I have the 3 or 4 effects already selected and waiting to go, but not what I had in mind, per se. If I have the effects turned on, but the M13 is bypassed, then I won't be hearing the effects that are turned on, and that will be visually confusing in a stage environment. I would rather see the effect lights turn on, when I push the one button on the HD500 as a predetermined "chase scene". I guess I would have the one light on the HD500 button indicating whether the M13 is in bypass mode or active mode....

Thanks for the reply though, that's something in and of itself. I will give this a try soon.

M13 effect on/off Midi commands triggered by HD500

support@line6.com — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:58:29 GMT

I am running my M13 in the effects loop of my HD500.

I would like to set one button on my HD500 to turn off and turn on multiple effects on my M13 simultaneously. I have grown fond of 2 delays and a reverb on my M13 and using them at the same time. But I want to turn this on and off without banking up or down or changing scenes. I just don't have 3 feet to spare so I can get them all on or all off quickly. I know the HD500 is very powerful and can probably send the MIDI messages, but what I don't know how to do is to tell the effect saved at the top button in effect 1, the middle button in effect 3, and the middle button in effect 4 to toggle off/on with the push of one button on the HD controlling that.

Thanks to anyone who can tell me whether the two units support that type of application.

PS - yes I know I could set up the HD to turn the fx loop off and on, but that I also use other gear in my loop and I don't want to stop access to those units.

Re: Whammy effects via M13

support@line6.com — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:54:22 GMT

I believe you can set the expression in heel down, set the harmony interval, then put the expression into toe down, and once again set the harmony interval.

Then the unit will toggle between those two settings. not sure how it will make the decision to jump intervals during the pedal's travel between heel and toe. You'll have to learn the feel and you could get good enough that you never actually need to go all the way to heel or all the way to toe.

Re: Looking for an easy software for recording electric guitar with a pod xt

support@line6.com — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:51:12 GMT

You could download a free software called Audacity. You can drop in a click track, then whenever you click the record button, a new track is started. You can set it up to open a new mono, or a new stereo track when you hit record.