Line 6 3.7 - Manual (Page 45)

Line 6 GearBox 3.7 – Driver Panel & Recording
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So, just how does all that huge amount of Tone get routed around between your Line 6 gear, computer
and recording software you ask? All this is performed by the audio driver - a software component
installed with GearBox that allows the audio to be routed to the right place. This section provides an
overview of the different driver types and where you can tweak a few settings to work best with your
particular computer setup.
For more instructions about setting up GearBox and your Line 6 hardware for recording with specific
audio recording programs, please check out the Recording Setup Guide documentation found on the
GearBox User Manuals page.
Windows
®
64-bit users... The installation of GearBox version 3.7 also installs Windows
® XP® and
Vista®
64 bit compatible audio drivers for your Line 6 hardware. The Windows
®
features described
here in this chapter are the same for 32 bit or 64 bit Windows ® systems.
Audio Routing
TonePort and GuitarPort - As shown in the following basic diagram, sources that are input into
the Line 6 hardware are handled by the audio driver, which manages applying the GearBox Tone
processing to your signal, feeding the processed audio out the Record Sends to your audio software,
gathering playback audio from your audio software and then routing the audio back to the Line 6
hardware’s outputs and to your monitoring system. The driver also grabs the GearBox processed signal
before routing it to the Record Sends and hands this off to Tone Direct Monitoring immediately, to
provide a low latency monitor signal, which is then routed to the Line 6 hardware and mixed with the
rest of your audio and fed to your monitoring system.
POD X3/PODxt - As shown in the following basic diagram, sources that are input into POD devices
are fully processed right on the POD hardware, and the GearBox software acts as a computer Graphical
User Interface (GUI) for the processing running on POD. The POD-processed audio is then handled
by the audio driver, which manages feeding the audio out to the USB Record Send(s) to your audio
software, gathering playback audio from the audio software, and then routing the mixed audio back to
the POD’s outputs and to your monitoring system. POD also grabs its processed signal before routing