Line 6 + Windows = Problem

[misterwhizzy]

So I fired up my POD Farm last night hoping to record a little bit, and it came up with the background of my screen showing through the POD Farm UI. It's been a while since I had done any recording, since I've been digging the sound from my live rig lately. (I could quit lying and say it's because I haven't come up with anything new recently, but that would make me look worse online.)

Anyways, I can't figure out why it's going badly, and I can't figure out what I changed on the computer since the last time I was using it for that. In trying to fix it, I reinstalled all the POD Farm stuff, and that didn't fix it. I reinstalled my NVIDIA driver. I downgraded my NVIDIA driver. I downgraded my POD Farm drivers. None of this changed anything.

The computer is not spending any significant CPU doing anything besides whatever POD Farm is doing. It's also strange that when I bring up the program, the taskbar entry for POD Farm very, very slowly moves its position to the left as the main window is created (after the splash screen goes away).

For the record, it's a dual-core Athlon with 3 GB of memory running Windows XP Professional with a GeForce 9800 GT and a Line 6 UX2.

Does anyone have any idea what could be going on here? Or where to figure out how to resolve it?

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

Honestly, having read your post about 5 times, I don't even understood fully what the problem is.
I'm not saying there isn't, but the way you explain it doesn't make much sense and doesn't leave much room for advice :laugh2:
I've never had this issue with POD Farm, ever *shrugs*
Can you perhaps give us more of an idea of other symptoms?
POD Farm doesn't have drivers per se, it comes in versions.
Is your UX2's driver up to date?
I'd honestly just buy a new interface anyway, the UX2 isn't that good. Just get something new and just use the UX2 as a dongle for POD Farm

 

[dominus]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

Try changing the video settings.. lower the resolution then set it back where it's supposed to be. Disable all video effects too:

http://pcmichiana.com/disable-visual-graphics-effects-windows-xp-wastes-resources/

(Set for best performance. The only ones I turn on are show windows content while dragging and drop shadows on desktop.)

Other than that, that's an odd one. Are you running POD Farm as a plugin? What DAW are you using? I'm wondering if it's got a transparent plugin setting.

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

Try changing the video settings.. lower the resolution then set it back where it's supposed to be. Disable all video effects too:

http://pcmichiana.com/disable-visual-graphics-effects-windows-xp-wastes-resources/

(Set for best performance. The only ones I turn on are show windows content while dragging and drop shadows on desktop.)

Other than that, that's an odd one. Are you running POD Farm as a plugin? What DAW are you using? I'm wondering if it's got a transparent plugin setting.

With the Line 6 Toneport/POD studio series, you have to run it so that it uses Tonedirect monitoring in standalone mode, so not actually as a plug-in insert on the guitar and bass tracks themselves

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

PM, I bring up the standalone POD Farm application. When it comes up, it never shows any graphics besides the menu. The amp sim stuff isn't there, nothing. The only thing that shows is whatever's behind the application window when it starts.

Dominus, originally, I was using it as a plugin, but I brought it up in standalone today. I also tried both version 1.12 and version 2.00. They show the same problem.

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

This is really odd indeed.
Are you still able to record DI tracks though?

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

This is really odd indeed.
Are you still able to record DI tracks though?

No. It could be because the last track I recorded was from Line In from the amp's line out, and for this one I was using the guitar straight in. So I guess the real answer is I don't know. I'll try the line in later on tonight, if at all possible, but I'd still like to be able to adjust the models. That's the whole point of the device, right?

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

No. It could be because the last track I recorded was from Line In from the amp's line out, and for this one I was using the guitar straight in. So I guess the real answer is I don't know. I'll try the line in later on tonight, if at all possible, but I'd still like to be able to adjust the models. That's the whole point of the device, right?

I'm confused.
What does the line in of your amp have to do with recording DI tracks?

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

I'm confused.
What does the line in of your amp have to do with recording DI tracks?

Setup last time I was recording:
Guitar -> Amp -> Line out of amp -> Line in on UX2 -> Computer

Setup now:
Guitar -> Guitar input on UX2 -> Computer

Does that make it clearer?

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

Ahh makes sense.
Well I'm not sure how you can even use the Line out of your amp to record DI tracks anyway, seeing as how it's not a DI box lol.
Just trying recording some DI tracks with your UX2.
If you can at least record DI tracks, even if the POD Farm interface wont work, you can just use other amp sims

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

You mean bypass the UX2 altogether and go straight into the sound card?

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

The UX2 IS the soundcard dude

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

The UX2 IS the soundcard dude

Okay. But the driver needs to pick which input from the UX2 to use as the recording. And that is set through POD Farm, right? So if I can't see it, I can't tell which one is selected. Is there another way to choose which of the physical inputs the DAW is using as its input?

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

Very, very weird. It seems to be working properly after a defrag and disk check.

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: Line 6 + Windows = Problem

Okay. But the driver needs to pick which input from the UX2 to use as the recording. And that is set through POD Farm, right? So if I can't see it, I can't tell which one is selected. Is there another way to choose which of the physical inputs the DAW is using as its input?

Well that's actually set through your DAW.
And from there you can just record DI tracks and then re-amp with whatever amp sim software you please