A quick rundown on the plugin.

When you install Pod Farm - it installs the vst plugin in your default plugins folder if you have one if you tell it to - or else it installs it in a Line folder. Search for Pod Farm.dll and you'll find it. You can either copy it to your regular plugins folder - or point your recording software to the folder the dll is in.

When you download the free vst - you have to authorize it with monkey over the internet with the addons tab.

The Pod Farm plugin is like Guitar Rig, Amplitube etc. and only works as a vst plugin in your recording software.

Whatever model packs you have on the device will also be in the plugin. Buying more model packs for the device will also make them available in the plugin.

You "insert" in on an audio track.

For Pods - you have to use the dry sends (7 and 8 stereo) and you will be recording a dry track. You can monitor the Pod - or you can monitor the plugin according to the preset you have chosen. You are recording over usb - not the other outputs. So you select the Pod in the software if you normally use a different sound card.

For Toneports - you record the 1 and 2 input and monitor the plugin - or sends 3/4 which are dry - and monitor the Toneport. Leaving the Pod Farm and Gearbox standalones closed - will send the dry signal over sends 1 and 2.

If you monitor the device - you will be recording something different which sounds like the tuner (dry) unless you select a preset in the plugin which is the same as the settings on the Pod. But either way - the track will always be dry and gets processed by the plugin in real time. It's only when you mix it down that the tone becomes permanent.

I always monitor the plugin when I record - then turn off the monitor button when I'm done. Then I can change the presets all I want - without harming the recording. Cubase has a button for that.

I also record two tracks at a time with as many as 4 amps in total - then mix them up and experiment with the fx to see what it sounds like. It's great for satisfying your curiousity about "what if I had more or less of this or that?"

Ampfarm is a Protools thing supported by Digidesign - not Line 6.

Nah, it's cool. Maybe later if I run into a UX-1 or something of the like. I actually thought POD Farm was AMP Farm. I also have hoards of VST plug-ins that do just about everything under the sun so this whole thing wouldn't work for me. I thought it would let me semi-retire my PODxt. Thanks for the help Slingy!

cgtrox   

Thanks.