adaniel87- Amen, brother. Good to see someone else telling this jerk off for the nonsense he's been writing. He's trying to scam money out of people on here and I'm not having it. Plus, I guarantee you he hasn't found a solution to the problem.

Just adding my voice to the annoyed.

I've been following this thread (http://line6.com/support/thread/86555) as my issue is more to do with the UX1 killing all USB devices plugged in at the time it flakes out.  Either way, the product is useless at the moment.  

Using guitar Gx as an audio recording input and systemwide output, after 10.8 upgrade sound cuts and "laggs". Updated drivers, firmware ... No change!  Getting ******! 

I understand you fully and ofcourse I don't claim anything from users in this forum. I have just told Line6 that I am more than willing to share my findings when I am sure that will fix recordings for everyone having these issuses. Line 6 didn't like my suggestions while i have not got any feedback but I am sure they will solve these issues by themselves. To be honest I think everyone having this issuses are in need of some compensation.

I have also tried all workarounds suggested but that won't solve anything, my findings most likely also explains why it works for some users and some not.

Sorry if I upset you in this matter, that was not the purpose. This was more supposed to be a statement to Line6 that there might be worth something for them to find the root cause of this issue. First after root cause findings are a fact they can share a solution for everyone.

Hi!

Line6 has not been to any help for me even though I found a good workaround for this issue they were not interested in compensate something for this to let others have a working workaround. I have now been using the UX2 with 10.8.2 mountain lion for about 3 month even though line6 have not been solving this issue for 6-7 month. There is christmas now and I think it would be fair to share my findings if it could be to any help for others having the same issuses that I had.

Ok first of all you need to install the latest drivers from Line6 (7.1.7), you will still have these issues after installing these drivers. Might work one out of 10 or so. If you have the UX2 when popping and cracking sound is back you should do the following.

1. Press and turn on the 48v phantom power so that the red lap is on

2. Turn off the 48v phantom power again (the new drivers and 10.8.2 with Apple has changed some power outage for the usb port and Ux2 seems to have a condensator that needs to be 100% empty of power)

3. Now you should remove the USB cable, (Important don't remove the USB cable from the computer!!!!!, remove the USB cable from back of the UX2 device very important that you do this!)

4. Wait about 10 sek with the usb cable removed

5. Plug in the USB cable in the back of the UX2 device again.

6. Workaround is ready and the popping and cracking sound should be gone!

Now you can aldo turn on the 48v phantom power if needed, repeat this procedure if you have the strange sounds again after hibernation of your laptop etc.

Happy Christmas all of you and I hope you can do some recordings again without the irritating sound. It might work to only follow and repeat step 3-6 abow also. The reason most of the people have not found this workaround is that 90% of all users are removing the cable from the laptop probably including the Line6 support then....

This is verified with Garageband but probably this solution works for Logic and other programs too.

There is still an issue with the Line6 drivers while there is not possible to use Mic and Instrument at the same time even though there is a setting for this within the drivers and operating system settings for Line6.

I was about buing a new guitar from Line6 the new Variax JTV model but I have changed my mind while I can't take the risk to have to wait for driver updates and fixes while I assume there is similar issues with all the gear. I think I will  look at the fender by roland guitar instead, more limited in its software but the product seems to be verified and working out of the box without any built-in features.

Happy Christmas and a good new year!!

(Have tested the new 7.1.9 driver that states should adress this issue but there is still the same issue if you unplug the usb cable etc so there is no 100% fix) But I can confirm this workaround works even with the 7.1.9 driver version for those of you that still has these issues.

Same problem here, am I the millionth one?

I wished I had read this thread (and the many others) before upgrading to Mountain Lion yesterday. After trying everything (including installing latest Monkey & drivers of course) I resorted to my last option: restoring to my 10.7 backup.

OS X 10.8 has been out for a while now and it's very concerning that Line6 hasn't been able to put out a fix for this by now considering the huge number of people reporting exactly the same problem.

I get marketing emails from Line6 every week, they know the hardware I have and the least they could have done would have been to give us some kind of warning, I wasted hours on this, plus the $20 I paid for Mountain Lion which I'm not going to use now.

Something to think about next time I'm spending gear money.

Isn't it sort of disgraceful and beyond comprehension that Line6 fails to respond to the issue?

They fixed a problem months ago, but that fix didn't work, or got overruled by a new OS update from apple (I think both were released within the week).

Afterwards I did get messages from Line6 in my support tickets that stated they are working on the problem and expected a fix soon...  That was MONTHS ago. (I think october or early november)

The last few responses from Line6 I got, and apparently more of you are getting, are that they're evading the issue. They ask about USB ports, Hubs, powersupplies etc.
Things that we all know are NOT the cause of this major issue. We have all answered those questions back in July already. Line6 should be aware of the real issue but now they are literally ignoring those facts.

When I asked them, on the support ticket, that I only wished for a confirmation from Line6 that 'Yes, they are aware of the problem and are working on it' to show
that they aren't ignoring it or pushing it under the rug, I haven't received any reponse since then(over a week ago).

I don't know how else to vent my frustration after being a line6 customer for over a decade. I really feel abandoned and it frustrates me to no end. I so want to start recording again
with my PodX3 in Logic, but literally for over 6 months I haven't been able to produce a single clean sound without noises or crackles. Maybe the issue lies also with Apple's OS updates, but we are

customers of Line6 and SHOULD be informed by them, if only to honestly state 'We can't do anything more on this moment, we're waiting for apple to fix some bugs in MountainLion' or something like that.

So what are we left with? Hatefully vent our frustration all over the internet? Abandon Line6 products and move on to other stuff like Apogee?

I'm spent...