Community: Message List - ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:55:05 GMT

Without running POD Farm you UX will output sounds from your computer to the UX's analog outs and headphones as the UX becomes the soundcard (unless you set it otherwise). On most PC's plugging in the UX will take over as the default soundcard. And if configured in the Line6 Audio-MIDI control panel it will pass the unprocessed signal to your DAW if you have Line6 ASIO selected as your device.

It will not pass the input (instrument, mic or line ins) to your analog outs or headphones. One exception would be if you turn on "record monitoring" in your DAW, but you will experience the latency of the signal going thru the DAW.

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:00:48 GMT

Another question. Is the UX1 supposed to have output to the monitors w/o Pod Farm running i.e. guitar sound out? On my new PC it is behaving that way, or at least it is sometimes and I cannot figure out why or what the behavior is supposed to be. Usually that is how it behaves on this PC but there have been occasions where it has not (requiring Pod Farm to be run to get sound). No documentation that I can find on this and now repsonse to the support ticket I opened several days ago so any help here is appreciated.

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:58:35 GMT

That is the the typical way to run it.

You can record wet and dry (see above reply)

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:57:34 GMT

If you want you can record the wet and dry while monitoring the wet and thgen add the [lug-in to the dry.

I usually do this just to remind myself the tone I was going for.

If you had Monitoring On in your DAW, that is likely the latency you are hearing.

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:39:02 GMT

pod farm (plugin) is essentially a post production tool... not really supposed to be used "live" so to speak.... and yes i've used it that way... and yes the latency sucks! but that's just not what it's supposed to do.

i usually record wwet and dry to different tracks using standalone pod farm, so that i have a reference... but i would mute the wet track and go to the plugin\dry track when tweaking the track... render that to a new track eventually... and then mute the dry/plugin track....

of course that's a lot of effort, but if you like to revisit things like i do from time to time it's nice to have the reference and the ability to adjust without re-performing.

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:34:51 GMT

Yes, and that is the confusing part - I thought if I ran PodFarm as the plugin I'd still have the tonedirect monitoring output to the speakers but I don't.

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:28:09 GMT

you do have the speakers plugged directly into the UX1 right?

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:27:43 GMT

you pretty much want to turn monitoring off in your daw... run standalone while recording dry... then add the plugin to the track with the same or tweaked tone after the fact for mixing....

of course there's no set workflow... if something works better for you.

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:19:26 GMT

I'd say if they don't have a Windows 8 driver (and they don't - just one that is this far reported to work with Windows 8) it's reasonable to ask if they have one in the works and if that might improve performance under Windows 8.

You're missing the point entirely... It's not about releasing a driver to recify an issue that "only exists in an unsupported environment" it's to rectify one running in a supported environment obviously: Lone6 UX1 with Line6 ASIO in Windows 8

Re: ASIO4All lower latency than Line6 driver for UX1?

support@line6.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:16:29 GMT

I noticed the latency I was hearing was gone; that's when I looked at the numbers but the numbers themselves I know don't tell the entire story. I can hear the difference though; the latency is no longer noticeable (to my ears) when using the ASIO4All drivers.

I also don't understand the tone direct - I have a support ticket open looking for more explanation on this. When using the UX1 via reaper I get no sound unless I select to monitor the guitar track but I thought the whole point of tone direct was that it output sound without going through the recording chain. To get around this I have to run Pod Farm stand alone, which maybe is the intent but I thought if it was running, it was running and there should be the tone direct output regardless of whether running stand alone of as plugin.