Recording using pod farm in Cubase

[macca0585]

Hi I recently purchased a pod studio GX and have been recording a few guitar tracks in Cubase with some tones from pod fam. I’m new to recording so this may be a silly question but hopefully someone can guide me in the right direction. My issue is that after I save my recording and play it back if I don’t have the line 6 hardware plugged into my USB then I don’t hear the processed guitar sounds only a clean sound but if I plug the hardware in then I hear the processed sound.
Is there a way to save the tracks so i can hear the processed guitar sound without the line 6 hardware connected?

Thanks 

[Triryche]

Are you launching PF standalone or the plug-in within your DAW (or both)?

The POD Studio GX comes with a hardware enabled PF2 plug-in license.

You are likely recording the dry signal so when the GX is disconnected the plug-in is not authorized.

 

There are a few thing you can do.

First I would recommend capturing both the dry and wet signal simultaneously to two different tracks. The wet signal can serve as a reference for the tone you were going for and the dry signal can be re-amped with the PF2 plug-in post processing. And if you nailed it the first time the wet track you recorded will not need to GX to be plugged in.

[macca0585]

Thanks for the response. So I’m launching pod farm as a plug in within Cubase. I drop down on the inserts tab and open up pod farm. 

From what you are saying it seems as though I’m just recording a dry signal. I’m planning on purchasing pod farm platinum this week so recording the dry signal may have not actually been a bad thing afterall.

 

Is it simple enough to re amp the dry tracks with pod farm? I’ve tried but can’t seem to figure it out.

 

thanks for your help 

 

[Gaz_Ham]

Re amping is pretty straight forward. Open the plug-in interface within the DAW and select some presets from the drop-down menu and play around with individual amp models/effects for a good while. You will soon get a feel for how they are set up. Creating your own onwards is just a case of matching the sound you have in mind with what Podfarm has to offer

[macca0585]

Thanks for the reply. I’m struggling to work out how to save the processed (re amped) track so I can play it back without needing to have the pod studio GX hardware connected. I’m guessing I need to add pod farm as an insert post not pre but unsure how to do this.

[Gaz_Ham]

In the top left hand corner of the vst window, to the right hand side of the 4 light blue boxes, there is an empty box. Click the button to the right hand side of that box and cubase will open another window where you can save and select tones that have been saved in this way. Thats how i do it, i only use it as a VST with cubase, so thats all i need.