Community: Message List - POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:34:02 GMT

Thanx for your answer, Nick

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:54:18 GMT

Thanks to both of you! Glad I asked!

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:58:39 GMT

I recall that too, but can't remeber exactly what thread it was in. But it was a statement from Line 6 tech support.

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:51:03 GMT

I'm not sure where I read in this forum, but it was 1m and not auto. I remember that because that was my guess.

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:25:33 GMT

I'm just trying to catch up here, and as I begin to update my firmware I'd like to know...

Is there an official statement by Line 6 as to how input impedance was handled previous to this update? The speculation is that what we had previously was what is now referred to as "Auto," but as far as I can tell this is only speculation. Before making a bunch of changes to (or a lot of experimentation with) my patches, I'd like a better understanding of where I'm at right now.

p.s. I'm glad my HD500 will soon have enhancements in handling input Z. THANKS, Line 6!

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:14:55 GMT

x-space wrote:

I'm planning to buy soon 500...
So is it possible to use each pedal of POD HD500 to send different MIDI CC commands by midi-cable (or over usb - for me it doesn't matter) to other software/hardware - to assign different CC's to POD's footswitches now with v1.4? I want to use hd500 sometimes as a MIDI controller for Ableton Live. In Ableton its very simply to assign different functions on CC's # with a MIDI Learn (for example from my midi keyboard controller M-Audio Axiom49), but is it possible with pod to send them? My Boss GT8 can't (only expression and Control pedals work as a CC commands)

Yes I'm 99% sure that the POD HD500's ability to send MIDI CC commands using the programmable foot switches should work at least to some extent with your Ableton Live setup.

The HD500 has been able to send MIDI CC's like this for a while, but not been able to receive and act on them before firmware 1.4. However, i would take steps to practically ensure that this works for your actual needs before purchasing the HD500 by going to your local Line 6 retailer and trying the MIDI implementation out with Ableton on a laptop using a standard USB MIDI interface on the computer.

Nick

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:17:25 GMT

It was confirmed on another forum that hardware already was there, jost not used by the software in the previous firmares. See my message above:

http://line6.com/support/message/330461#330461

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:14:27 GMT

Good test. And good work by line 6

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:34:43 GMT

gregr wrote:

meambobbo wrote:

But from 230k - 3.5M you shouldn't hear much tonal variation.
Yet I do hear tonal variation, and as much (or as little) as I do with passive pickups. Hence my questioning the insistence that it is done in hardware. Combine this with how it could be realized in hardware with just an update in firmware, and you might see why I feel justified in my skepticism.

FWIW, I really don't care either way, either. As I said, earlier, if I get more variation through a software-based approach, then that would be my preference.

I just demonstrated to myself that this is not a software implementation - it must be in hardware.

Actually a very simple approach : I used a Y-cable feeding from my tele into the pod input and also direct into a mixer from the unprocessed guitar signal - but loaded by the input impedance of the Pod.

The conclusion is clear - changing the guitar input Z on the Pod HD changes the impedance at the input, because I can hear a change in the guitar tone D.I through the mixer (i.e. not passed through Pod HD).

I am both surprised and impressed that input Z is a real hardware implementation of some kind.

Re: POD HD500, HD Pro and HD (Bean) V. 1.40 update available

support@line6.com — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:17:12 GMT

I'm planning to buy soon 500...

So is it possible to use each pedal of POD HD500 to send different MIDI CC commands by midi-cable (or over usb - for me it doesn't matter) to other software/hardware - to assign different CC's to POD's footswitches now with v1.4? I want to use hd500 sometimes as a MIDI controller for Ableton Live. In Ableton its very simply to assign different functions on CC's # with a MIDI Learn (for example from my midi keyboard controller M-Audio Axiom49), but is it possible with pod to send them? My Boss GT8 can't (only expression and Control pedals work as a CC commands)