its amazing what line6 did  with the vetta .2 years of leading us on , telling us it would be fixed, and then they made the hard decision , not to fix it all. so anything can happen with the x3  .... ?

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Still the same problem here, no fix.

I think this is rediculous. And I also think they hve "redone" the forums to ged rid of the old complaints too. You have to go trough quite some "layers" / links to get here finally.

I decided not to invest (amplification system) any further in the X3 live because of this...It is gathering dust now in it's bag.

Hugo

I think what bothers me the most about this is the potential lack of honesty.  If L6 came out and said "you know guys, there's only about 20 of you that are all worked up about USB audio dropout and it's just not worth our time to dedicate 23 L6 monkeys to fix it" I'd be OK with that.  Not happy, but OK.  At least I'd know that what I had was all I'd ever have.  I guess that's what happened with Vetta - but I don't know since I never owned one. But I think that when they say "we're on top of it, we're working on it" it just reeks of trying to keep people who want that USB recording and playback capability buying a new unit.  In that sense it could be dishonest if they're just saying that.  I hope that tomorrow L6Miller comes on and announces a solution and all of us pessimists - me for one - are once again exposed as cynics.

I hear you.  If L6 announces a new product I for one will wait for the initial problems and troubleshooting to take place before I plop down a chunk of change.  I like the X3L sounds but I would not have bought one if I had read posts like the ones here since my major use is recording guitar tracks via USB. If my major use was on stage then it might be different.

I think I accidently found a solution to the usb drop issue. I've always had a Behringer 8 channel mixer plugged into my line-in on my soundcard. This allows me to plug in 8 different devices at the front of my pc rather than have to plug chords into the back of the pc, plus, I get to plugin as much as 8 external sound devices.I have the Pod plugged into channel 8 on the mixer and when I record I use the line-in option which gives me perfect sound and I don't even have to plugin the usb chord.If you have a spare small mixer, you mant to give this a try?

Baggs

yo Hugo seems you´re right.

The X3L was the last thing I buy from Line 6!!!!!

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Please don't anybody call this a "solution to the usb drop issue".  Please don't anybody give Line6 the impression that you are OK with this workaround. If you read the Vetta announcement where, after 2 years of promising to fix the problems, they decided _not_ to fix them after all, they explicity said that various work-arounds existed for most or all of the problems. Bypassing the USB connection to the X3L is absolutely unacceptable.

It's a poor desparate work-around at best, considering the issues and what you're giving up:

- analog instead of digital, which if you have good equipment maybe you won't hear the difference.

- you may have a crappy soundcard on your PC or laptop to begin with.

- my laptop doesn't even have a line-in, but my Behringer mixer came with a very simple USB  interface with RCA in and outs.

- you don't have the choice of any or all 8 of the wet and dry channels that USB recording gives you; you can only record two channels.

- you don't have the zero-latency direct monitoring on the POD. Depending on your DAW and PC this may be a big problem. You can work around this by plugging the line-out of the PC into the mixer and monitoring from the mixer if you can split the in and out into a sub mix for the record out.

- depending on your soundcard, you probably aren't using ASIO, which may or may not be a problem.

- you cannot use GearBox to edit and transfer patches without changing wiring connections constantly.

- you cannot use GearBox with Guitar Port Online tracks and lessons at all, period.