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Yes. You just need to connect your Firehawk to your computer via USB. The Firehawk becomes your computer's soundcard and the audio from your computer will be birected to the Firehawk outputs. Note that the audio has to come from your computer, not your iPhone.

You're not stupid. I wish I had a nickel for every time I've done something like that!

Make sure your Pod Farm input is set to Guitar, not Mic.

You're absolutely right. I was initially surprised that the 64GB card worked. It was a gift so I tried it, and since it works I have stayed with it. But I know there'll be no support from Line 6 if it suddenly craps out. Everything important is routinely backed up.

... and don't forget about (heaven forbid!) reading the manual...... ;)

In addition to the FAT32 formatting requirement the SD card must also be Class 10. It's a speed/performance characteristic. Wikipedia Defines Class 10 as a minimum sequential writing speed of 10MB/s, able to accomodate Full HD (1080p) video recording and consecutive recording of HD stills (High Speed bus), real-time broadcasts and large HD video files (UHS bus).

I use a 64GB SD card with no problem.

Workbench HD is compatible with all Variax JTV and Standard models. It is not compatible with the earlier Variax models.

What exactly do you mean by 'clearing' a snapshot? If you just want to rename them you can rename one and then copy it to the other slots. For instance, rename snapshot #3 to 'Snapshot 3'. Then copy/paste it to snapshot #4, etc. But every preset has, and will continue to have, 8 snapshots. It's just a matter of whether and how you want to use them.

Sure you do. Most of us at least try to do that in a less offensive manner. Your comments seem intentionally hurtful. Do you have some personal history with Glenn?

.... and don't forget about MIDI .......

There has been no firmware update for the M5. The factory installed version 1.00 is the only and latest version.

Yes. Just place the Helix FX Send/Return block at the end of signal chain, immediately before the Output block.

Note that the EHX Pitch Fork is a polyphonic pitch shifter. Line 6 pitch shifters work best for monophonic performances. Depending on the circumstances you can get some warbling in polyphonic situations.

You could try inserting the SD card into your computer and renaming the individual channel/track files. At the time of recording the M20d names the individual WAV files and includes the channel number in the name. If you have the mapping of the old to new channel assignments a simple renaming might work. But it might not. I don't know exactly how the M20d assigns the playback channels to the WAV files in the selected folder; it may not actually use only the number in the file name.

1) Right, a guitar is not a laptop. But a Variax 600 guitar is nothing but a computer with a non-standard human interface. It is an embedded software system housed in wood with unusual i/o interfaces. As you say you know very well how the software industry works. 2) You do have that possibility - you just need an older computer system that is able to run the software that communicates with your Variax computer. Line 6 has decided to no longer keep that old software current with new computer OS systems. Again, you know well how the software industry works. ... over and out.....

Well you already know what the answer is - you just don't like it. But it's not going to change. Old technology eventually becomes unsupported. That happens in every industry, including computers like Variax guitars that happen to have a human interface for guitar players rather than spreadsheet users. Your Variax 600 still works - you've just lost the ability to edit it using current operating systems. Like any piece of software, Workbench was initially released in a current state-of-the-art technology environment. As that environment evolves it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain the software. Eventually support is dropped. In some cases, like with Workbench HD, the original product is replaced with a new state-of-the-art product. Support for Workbench HD will eventually disappear too, but your JTV guitar will continue to work and you'll ba able to use Workbench HD as long as you want to keep an old computer system alive. I can't think of any nearly 10-year old hardware/software products I have that still work with Win10. But they would continue to work if I wanted to keep a Win XP machine handy. I own a 5 year old Ford that can't connect to my iPhone. Of course I wouldn't be disappointed with that if they hadn't gone and made cell phones and Bluetooth almost standard in newer cars! I bought a new office printer/scanner recently because my old one was no longer supported. Same thing with my golf GPS device - couldn't update courses any more as of Win7. Computer-based guitars are no different. But again, you already know all of this - you just don't like it. I too would like lifetime support (my lifetime - not theirs) for all software/hardware products. But it's not realistic.

The room acoustics can also play a big role. I think the sound from the FRFR speaker in a small room in your home, bouncing off the walls, is quite different from the sound of the PA speaker in the much larger gig venue with less reflection.

Make sure you configure Audacity to use the AMPLIFi and its Line 6 ASIO driver as the audio input/output device. In particular, avoid using ASIO4ALL.

That fixed it. Thanks.

It's working fine in Safari on iOS. But I am having problems on Win10 Firefox. In Firefox the 'View New Content' link brings me to the Line 6 Home page, not the forums. However the forums are accessible under the Support tab.

It's the name of a Mac OS version.

As a general rule, never buy a product that is missing a potentially deal-breaker feature in the hopes that the feature might become available someday. If the day comes that this feature is added that, imho, is when you should reconsider the FH 1500. Based on what you've said there is a very high probability that you will be disappointed if you purchase it now.

Changes and updates are listed in the Release Notes that accompany each new firmware release. You can get the release notes in the Downloads section of this website under the Support tab above. Select "James Tyler Variax" in the Products field and "Flash Memory" in the Software field. Read the release notes to get details of the updates. You will see that the JTV modelling technology was completely upgraded in 2013 as of firmware v2.0.

Make sure the Wah FX is ON when the EXP 2 pedal is active. You may have to do this manually the first time, without using the toe switch on/off controller, then save the preset. Note that the toe switch toggles the active pedal from EXP1 to EXP2 and vice-versa. So you need to synchronize the on/off state of the Wah FX with the state of the active pedal. It's possible that your setup is not synchronized properly. In other words you could have the Wah FX ON while the EXP1 pedal is active, providing no sweep control since EXP2 is assigned to the sweep controller. So to activate EXP2 you press the toe switch, which also turns the Wah FX OFF so nothing happens when you sweep the pedal.