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There is a workaround to make Monkey app still working (hope it's still valid).. ---> Line 6 Monkey Pending Retirement Text of the linked above post by Line6Tony copied and pasted here: Line6ers, We've come to the point where Line 6 Monkey will no longer be available. There's a server issue that has rendered it unusable. Additionally, making it work for products that we no longer make or support is no longer feasible. Until we completely remove Monkey from our Downloads page in January 2025, we have a workaround that will allow you to use Monkey: Download and install Line 6 Monkey (Windows) from line6.com/software. Download the firmware you want to install from line6.com/software. Download your device's drivers from line6.com/software and install them. Launch Monkey. Click on the Monkey icon in the upper left and select "Diagnostics…". Click OK to the window that opens. In the Explorer window that appears (C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Line 6\Line 6 Monkey), remove any .cfg file that may be present. Copy the attached "default.cfg" file into the above location. Quit Monkey then relaunch Monkey. You'll know this change worked if you can see a full list of devices to update. You should now be able to connect your device to Monkey and perform an “offline” firmware installation. When you click on "Firmware", then the "Update Selection" button, point Monkey to the location on your computer where you downloaded your device's firmware, such as your Downloads folder or your Desktop. If you run into trouble, you can always reach our support team at www.Line6.com/company/contact. We expect the workaround to work on macOS 10.14 and earlier, since that was the last one to support 32-bit apps such as Monkey. "Diagnostics" is in the Line 6 Monkey menu. default.cfg _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Rather than checking for differences between just the editor pages when you change the way you select presets, you should check for differences between what you see in the editor and in the POD display. My suspicion is that the preset was not sent correctly to the device before trying the two different selection methods. (Are you sure you are using the right procedure to send the preset to the POD?). When you select via the footswitches the POD reads the preset saved in its memory and not the one you are still seeing in the editor, so if there are any differences between the two you will be hear them (differences which as I already said should be visible anyway between what you see in the editor and in the POD display). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

The tuner included in the POD only recognizes the signal passing through input1 (so it never recognizes the signal passing through input2). So, for the tuner to actually work, in the preset input settings you need to make sure that input1 is set to (or includes in the case of multiple source selection) the source currently used (in this case "Variax"). My hypothesis therefore is that when you tried to use the POD tuner you were using a preset with the inputs set as input1=guitar/input2=variax, that's why the tuner didn't work (with the Variax), mystery solved if I guessed right. Whoever created/edited that preset wasn't using a Variax and set input2 to Variax (by default input2 would be set to Same) as Null source just to halve the input signal level in the chain. If you like that preset I recommend you reverse its inputs selection to keep the same gain level and have effective use of the tuner. Doing so, your effective source for input1 would be Variax and your Null source for input2 would be Guitar. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Select and use the Compressor effect. Then use the Effect Tweak knob to adjust the amount of sustain you need.

As already stated above by "pianoguyy", by taking advantage of the stereo separation you can pan the output of the patches to the right or left depending on where you want the signal to go (to do this in most cases the MIXER block must be the last one in the chain of your patches to prevent the audio from one channel from also going to the other). But there is also a different solution which does not imply changing the panning in the patches, and that is to put an FX LOOP block at the end of the chain for example in the patches that contain only effects, thus doing the POD output in those patches no longer comes out of the standard outputs but instead comes out of the SEND output (which can be in stereo if desired if a TRS cable is used) on the rear panel of the POD. (The SEND output is provided with a physical switch to change its output level to STOMP or the hotter LINE mode). _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Rotary Encoder for HX Stomp / Helix - FOUND!

When I use the hd editor I consider and use it as the main control center of the device and eventually I use the physical footswitches only to turn the effects on and off, never to select a patch. (Maybe this is why I have never had the problem you described). I use the footswitches to select patches only when the editor is off and in any case after the edited patches have been synced correctly. Another thing to consider is that as long as the POD is connected to a computer (with the editor active or not, doesn't matter) its global output volume is always dependent on the setting of the "hardware monitoring level" parameter (normally it should be set to maximum) in the Line6 audio driver control panel. Which thing obviously does not happen when the device is disconnected from the computer and independent. Another thing to check: is the installed editor version the right one? Each new firmware that has been released has always corresponded to a specific new editor version. If the correspondence is missing, anomalous behaviors can occur. Also be careful with patches maybe created with a different firmware and then imported into the editor and device. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Same problem here. Since there is no official announcement on the front page of this website I recently did a search and found the following articles explaining why this problem occurs: Line 6 Monkey Discontinued Making Line 6 Monkey Work and here the new app to update your device: Line 6 Central app now available you can find all the above articles here: General FAQ PS: and in case you also need to use the License Manager app, know that you must manually download the latest version available from this site otherwise it will not work _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

The Pitch Glide effect has a "mix" parameter that allows you to mix the unaffected sound with the transposed one as you like, and this would be the simplest solution. But if you need 2 separate outputs, one of which is transposed, then the only solution (DSP resources available allowing) is to create 2 same parallel chains, one in Path A and the other in Path B and put the pitch glide only in one of these, and in the mixer block make sure that one Path goes all the way to the left output and the other to the right one. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

In the pic below here you can see what the original tremolo bar on my Variax 700 looks like: Doing a quick Google search for "5mm threadless tremolo bar" among the various results I found for example the following one which seems very similar: https://www.amazon.it/Musiclily-Tremolo-Inossidabile-Wilkinson-Originale/dp/B095K1R9B4?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A14FQ8U68D49ZO

as written at page 2 of the POD 2.0 pilot's guide: (available here: https://l6c-acdn2.line6.net/data/6/0a060b316ac34f0593b343dc6/application/pdf/POD 2.0 Pilot's Guide ( Rev B ).pdf) 11. Amp Models – You have a selection of 32 Amp Models from this knob. To access models 17-32, hold down the TAP button and turn the Amp Models knob. When you choose an Amp Model, a Cabinet Model is also loaded automatically. You can choose a different cabinet via the Effects (CAB Select) knob.

Here is the link to the advanced guide: https://l6c-acdn2.line6.net/data/6/0a060b316ac34f0593c1b466f/application/pdf/POD X3 Advanced Guide ( Rev E ).pdf and here the link to the page with all the manuals which have to do with the POD X3 hardware and software (included the advanced guide linked above): https://line6.com/legacy/podx3live

The fuzz part is Norman with a fuzz circuit built into his Tele pickguard.. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Actually there is no separate CAB block in the HD series, the CAB is just one of the parameters of the AMP model block. However, simply placing the spring reverb block just before the Deluxe Reverb model block still gives a very similar result to the original built into the real amp. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Great! I didn't realize that the "Making Line 6 Monkey Work" post is from Line6 and is in the Knowledge Base > General FAQ section of this site, when you mentioned it in a previous post I thought you were referring to a user post.. I'm glad you found the solution and solved the problem. Your post with instructions above here will certainly be helpful to others. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Fortunately I already have everything updated and installed including the model packs on my HD500X some time ago. After reading this post I tried to use the Monkey app and although it recognizes everything connected and installed a warning appears: "Could not connect to the Line 6 server to determine if updates are available." I used also the License Manager and it is working fine, everything recognized and authorized. So I looked around in the DOWNLOADS section of this site and downloaded and installed an app that also seems to work for this device, but never considered or used before: "Line6 Central", and unlike Monkey it seems to work fully even if it is only useful for updating the hardware of the device and nothing else. If by any chance your POD still needs the latest firmware v. 2.62 which is absolutely necessary to be able to use the model packs perhaps this could be a solution to unblock the authorization procedure via License Manager.. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

I have a worn out HD500 (as a backup) and an HD500X. The sounds you can get are as good today as they were when the device was current. Current modelers surely have some additional features, the most used and appreciated of which is the ability to load the impulse responses you want to get more cab emulations in addition to the stock ones. Note that many of the presets in the "Variax" setlist (based on the last firmware version), even if originally dedicated to the use of a Variax, are also good for traditional guitars, and are probably the best ever built by Line6 for this device. On my site some of those presets are listed with some info and references to the songs that inspired them: --> Best patches by Line6 As for presets for sounds like Lincoln Brewster here is an example of what you get with a search on CustomTone, listed in order of rating: --> POD HD500 compatible tones matching Lincoln Brewster Having said that I always prefer to build my own presets from scratch (or by modifying my own presets), based on my touch and equipment. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Yes, it will.. The Variax JTVs were released before the HD500X therefore at that time they were normally connected to the HD500 for power and editing. A problem of missing full functionality exists only for owners of the first generation Variax guitars (ie those that existed before JTVs) if they are connected to the HD500X as they are still powered but editing via POD as an interface to the to the proper workbench app is no longer possible where instead editing from JTV generation onwards would be.

I'd probably build a chain like this: Whammy pedal-->Sub Octave Fuzz-->Phaser-->Low gain Amp on the edge of breakup-->Delay-->Reverb I don't have Helix Native but I think the basic idea above should work well.. I'm still using a POD HD500X whose controls respond differently than on the Helix so it would be useless to share any detailed settings.. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Since the Ethernet cable without ends must first be inserted into a part of the Ethercon Canon casings (the part that then simply has to be screwed on) it is necessary to have an RJ45 crimping tool to build the complete (cable + RJ45 connectors) Ethernet cable from scratch and only then attach the final part of the Canon casings. If you want to avoid DIY, you can find, for example, on Amazon ready-made Ethercon cables available in various lengths at affordable prices that work well. Here in Italy I found this: DG Systems - Cavo Ethercon schermato per AES50, Dante, ArtNet, Madi, ACE - Made in Italy (5 mt)

You can get a CAT5 or CAT5e ethernet cable of the length you want and put Ethercon Canon casings on its ends.

Read this (it might be useful): Fixing non-functional footswitch buttons If you edit presets directly on the device (no computer editor running) you must save every time you finish editing 1 preset and want to move to another preset otherwise you will lose all the changes made. If you edit presets using the computer editor it is able to temporarily (untill it is still running) store the changes made to multiple presets but before closing the editor it is necessary to transmit/send the list with the edited presets to the device otherwise you will lose all the changes made. Unfortunately it is not possible to make this display mode the default, nor is it recallable via MIDI In the appendix of the advanced guide downloadable from this site there is a section dedicated to MIDI with a list of all the commands to which the POD responds (and FYI there is no command for the Home View mode).. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Instead of using the monkey app, try manually downloading the driver from the DOWNLOADS section of this site and proceed to install the driver with the downloaded file. If by doing so you still cannot install the driver correctly, perhaps you are dealing with the problem and workaround described in the following post: Windows 10/11 Memory Integrity/Core Isolation Disables Driver Installation _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

I didn't mean to tell you the sentence written in my last post. Actually I provided only the link to an old thread that has that sentence as the title, and in that thread someone who had a similar problem to yours found a working solution in silverhead's post _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips