james5272

So, I have played around with Helix Native a bit. Maybe 20 min. But, for example, Buzz Wave sounds *way* different in it than it does in POD Farm. And it is missing the sub octave effect from POD Farm that I liked - it has other octave effects, but to me, none of them are as good. There is also bias for POD Farm's sounds since that is what I grew up on. It's weird. I am playing around with POD Farm more. And asking on Mixcraft, to see how long they think they might support VST2, since that's what POD Farm will be stuck at (unless Line 6 decides to be nice and update POD Farm to give it some more longevity). But there is a tone I had for a solo two decades ago, I wrote and recorded the solo in less than an hour and then... it was my dad's POD, I think he ended up getting rid of it, I had stopped playing guitar and he didn't use it... I am trying to recreate the sound in POD Farm, but I am having some trouble! I know I used Buzz Wave, but I must have tweaked it, and used other specific settings on the POD I forgot about, because I still haven't been able to get the same sound. It's kind of unfortunate... to me it is a killer tone. But, all this to say, I'll probably be fiddling around with POD Farm some more. As long as I use effects only through their specific effect plugin in the DAW (rather than POD Farm hub), it seems to be working now, also with deleting the 32-bit dlls to force 64-bit in Mixcraft. I'm going to practice drums here and then get back to fiddling with POD Farm. I really want that tone back... EDIT: Ya I think that tone is just lost to me sadly.

They already got back to me, it sounds like they're going to be giving me a refund (said they are submitting the refund request). And it's suggested I go with Helix Native. Which is what I figured would be the case. This had me in a really bad mood last night. I had some riffs written and wanted to use these sounds, but without the delay it wasn't the same. So I switched to another guitar plugin (Softube Marshall Amp Room) and finished the song. Basically when I'm working on a song I just want to get it out and done and move on, before I get bored of composing (also why I genre hop). Issues come up like this sometimes, really sets me off lol, but I have at least 4 different guitar amp+effects plugins, so there's always a fallback. Just have to accept and then grow to like a different sound. I am just curious. I see there is an Eddie Van Halen preset for Helix for $14.99US through the Line 6 store: https://shop-ww.line6.com/marketplace/pasadena-complete-deluxe-preset-package/?searchid=280223&search_query=eddie+van+halen Do these work with the Helix Native PC software too? Or is it just for the hardware?

I could be wrong. I just got POD Farm today, due to knowing it was basically a software version of a physical POD I had like two decades ago. I think the problem is (and afaik Line 6 doesn't make this apparent, nor is it reflected in the price), but POD Farm has been abandoned since 2015. Which if true and I'm not misunderstanding something (like you're supposed to run a different, maintained plugin to get access to the POD Farm stuff), is a real crappy thing to do. There is a specific tone I had used for a solo on a song, and my early stuff was recorded with that POD, so I was hoping I could have that more or less reattainable by using a software version of the same thing. It looks like Helix Native is their new thing, but I'm worried about them abandoning that at some point too and then having to pay hundres in US $ for their next big thing. And my favorite preset on that old POD was the EVH styled Eruption preset, which apparently Helix Native doesn't have. You can spend $15US on a preset addon that emulates his tone, but idk if that'd work with the software or just the hardware. And then if/when they abandon Helix Native like they did POD Farm, if the new thing doesn't come with the same stuff, you're probably waiting to be able to buy another preset. Also, I had a lot of issues with the support ticket system too. Tried 4 different browsers across 2 devices, eventually just kept opening new tabs in Edge and typing in my problem and hitting Search. When it finally worked it only took a few seconds. I was thinking I'd have to do my first chargeback ever for a while there. Knowing their support system is broken is also giving me hesitance on buying their POD Farm replacement IF I can get a refund. But they should just be porting effects to modern maintained plugins if they're going to abandon the old ones. This is what at least IK Multimedia has done. They have a Philharmonik plugin that hasn't been updated since 2020, but it's cuz you use Sampletank for its sounds instead, which is still updated. So while the Philharmonik plugin is dead, the new one gives you access to the same sounds and no loss of features. Just straight up killing stuff, then selling it like it still has support... the hell is that? When old games are on Steam that don't work without user fixes anymore, they're like $5 tops, cuz they aren't maintained anymore. This is a $120US plugin ON SALE. And it's DEAD for 10 years unless I'm not getting something. Even if I get a refund it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I really want to find a way to use these sounds! But don't really want to reward this behavior either. I've bought probably at least 40 plugins from tens of companies since getting back into music production a year and a half ago. This is by far my worst experience in this realm. And from a company that has been around longer than most of these, and has stuff I would really like to use! Puts you in a bit of a pickle.

Hey there, I had already added the Line 6 VST dir to Mixcraft for plugin scanning. Prior to that I wasn't seeing it at all. I relaunched the installer, and it says that the plugin will show up as POD Farm 2 in the DAW. Are you saying for you it shows up as POD Farm 2.5 (or 2.51)? I also noticed in the installer, all the install selection options that show POD Farm, show it as POD Farm 2. And now, I am discovering that even the delays selected through the POD Farm Delays don't always work. Sometimes I re-select it and it applies the delay, other times it doesn't. I am seeing that POD Farm is supposed to have a 64bit version. Maybe this is the problem - the plugins are labelled as 32bit in Mixcraft. And Mixcraft 10 is 64 bit. The POD Farm documentation says there should be seperate plugins labelled x64 and to use those in a 64-bit DAW, but again those aren't showing. I see the x64 dlls in the Line 6 VST dir though. Mixcraft has an "Unable to load" and "Disabled" section in the plugin manager, and the x64 plugins aren't showing there either. Also, are these supposed to be VST2, not VST3? I am only seeing it as VST2 in the list. Wondering if perhaps that is a contributor to this issue. I'm going to post on the Mixcraft forum too just in case it's an issue on their end. But I might not get an official response for a while. Any more ideas are welcome. EDIT: I had the thought, to delete the 32-bit dlls. I did that and did a re-scan. They don't show up named x64 like the documentation says they would, but Mixcraft's Plug-in Manager is now showing all the POD plugins as 64-bit. However, under POD Farm 2 through the FX menu, delays still aren't working. Which again has me wondering what else might be broken. At least so far, the few times I've turned POD Farm Delays on and off through the FX menu, it's been working that way. But I'd like to just be able to control everything from the main hub. And, again, I am also having this issue in the standalone POD Farm program. So I don't think it's a Mixcraft problem. EDIT2: Okay, I did some Googling, it turns out the most recent version is actually 2.59 (so not sure why the download page I had initially been directed to only showed 2.51 as the latest). However I updated to that, and the issue persists. Could it be that this last update was in 2015? Am I misunderstanding something, like have they transitioned all the presets + amps + effects etc. into a different plugin? Or is this actually abandoned software being sold at a premium price 10 years after they ditched it? EDIT3: Any idea why I can't progress beyond step 1 for submitting a support ticket? I have tried Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Samsung Internet on Android. On all of them, it wants me to type in something and hit "Search", when I hit search, I wait a couple minutes, absolutely nothing happens. I kind of need my money back to put towards Helix, it looks like. EDIT4: FINALLY got the support ticket submission to work. Honestly I thought I was going to have to do a chargeback for the first time in my life! Kept opening tabs and putting in the same info and hitting Search, when it finally worked it only took 2 seconds. Now I have to wait 3 business days to see if they will give me a refund for selling a product that shouldn't be sold anymore, and if they insist on taking a premium for something they consider dead in the water, it should really have a BIG WARNING about it on the product page and before you buy it. I have nostalgia for these sounds, and they definitely sound good, but HOLY ****, what kind of operation does something like this? PLEASE tell me I'm misunderstanding something here!

Hello, I just bought the top tier version of Pod Farm 2.5. I had remembered using this for some recordings when younger, so have been fiddling around. A couple things I've noticed: 1. When a delay is in the chain, it acts like it isn't on. I can turn it off and on, set the mix and feedback to max, it always acts like there is no delay in the chain. This is when using it in Mixcraft 10.6 Pro or using POD Farm 2.5 standalone. 2. I was playing around with the Eruption preset. Maybe I am remembering wrong, but I think from years ago (at least a decade, probably more), I had used this with a physical POD and it had distortion. This preset is clean in POD Farm 2.5. Intended or is this a sign of another problem, maybe similar to the delays not working at all? I tried opening a support ticket, but when I type in my details and hit search (a requirement before submitting a ticket it seems), absolutely nothing happens. EDIT: So, I just tested. In Mixcraft, the delays are working through POD Farm Delays under FX. But under the entire POD Farm 2.5, they don't work at all. This has me curious about what else might not be working. EDIT2: Maybe this will also help figure out the problem. The installer I downloaded says POD Farm 2.51. But in the DAW and standalone, it just says POD Farm 2.