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FBV MkII Advanced User Guide: Controlling Line 6 POD Farm 2

MIDI Communication with your Software

With your FBV MkII device USB-connected to your computer, you typically just need to set your

software application to receive MIDI control data from the specific MIDI Out port and MIDI channel

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to which your FBV device is transmitting. For example, in the Ableton Live

or Live

Lite software,

the Preferences > MIDI/Sync dialog offers options to choose one or more MIDI controller devices. In

your MIDI/DAW software, you’ll see FBV MIDI Ports 1 through 4 from which to receive MIDI Control

data.

Note: These four ports appear titled differently depending on your specific Mac® or Windows® operating

system version - Please see the setup examples in the following sections.

By default, all your FBV MkII Control assignments are transmitted to the FBV MIDI Out Port 1.

However, you can set any individual FBV control to transmit its MIDI control data to any FBV MIDI

Out port 1 through 4 (see the FBV Control application’s Control Properties List section on page 3•1).

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Windows

MIDI Port Communication

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It is important to note that the Windows

USB Class Compliant driver, which is used for your FBV

MkII device on Windows, inherently allows only one application to utilize each MIDI port at a time.

The Line 6 FBV Control application, when open, uses the FBV MIDI In port and the MIDI Out port

4 for communication with your FBV device. Therefore, if you have another DAW software application

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currently running on your Windows

computer that is configured to also use these same FBV MIDI

ports, only one application will be permitted to do so.

If you already have POD Farm 2 standalone application or your DAW software running, and one

has the FBV MIDI In port enabled, trying to then launch the Line 6 FBV Control application will

typically result in the FBV Control application failing to detect the connected FBV device, since it

is “in use” by the other software. One possible solution is to disable the use of the FBV MIDI In port

and FBV MIDI Out 4 port within your POD Farm 2 or DAW software. (You should be OK keeping

the POD Farm 2 or DAW software enabled for receiving from the FBV MIDI Out ports 1 through 3,

which allows you to still send MIDI Control commands from FBV to your software.) Otherwise, it is

recommended to exit all other applications when using the FBV Control software to provide full MIDI

port access for editing your FBV control settings.

Note: The Line 6 Monkey application also utilizes the FBV MIDI ports for its ability to detect and update

your connected FBV device. It is always recommended that you exit the Line 6 FBV Control, as well as

any MIDI/DAW software, before launching Line 6 Monkey.

MIDI Channels

Each USB MIDI Port carries 16 MIDI “channels.” You can think of MIDI channels just like channels

on your TV - your TV is capable of receiving many “channels”, but you’ll only be able to see the

program you want to watch if you tune your TV set to the specific channel. Same thing here in the

world of MIDI. By default, your FBV MkII device will transmit its MIDI data to Channel 1 on the

selected MIDI Port for each control. However, you can set any individual FBV control to transmit

to any MIDI Channel (see the FBV Control application’s Control Properties List section on page 3•1).

You may find that your software offers options to receive only on a specific MIDI channel from the

selected MIDI port, so you will want to be sure to configure any such MIDI Channel options to match

those to which your FBV controls are transmitting. POD Farm 2 will receive MIDI on all 16 channels

(however, when using POD Farm 2 Plug-In, you might need to set your DAW or MIDI track to receive

from the channel to which your FBV is transmitting).

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POD Farm 2 Pre-configured MIDI Assignments

POD Farm 2 standalone application and POD Farm 2 Plug-In come with a complete folder of Tone

Presets that include “pre-configured” MIDI control assignments. To access these Tone Presets, select

the “POD Farm 2” titled folder within the Presets View.

Select the “POD Farm 2” folder (or any of its sub-folders) within the Source Folders pane

The Tone Presets available within these folders include “pre-

configured” MIDI control assignments

The POD Farm 2 Presets View

The pre-configured MIDI assignments allow any MIDI controller device to access several useful

parameters for these POD Farm 2 Tones. Note that these Tones’ MIDI assignments are “Local” MIDI

assignments - meaning, they are saved individually with each Tone Preset, and accessible within POD

Farm 2 Plug-In, as well as in the POD Farm 2 standalone application.

Additionally, the POD Farm 2 standalone application includes several pre-configured “Global” MIDI

assignments. These Global MIDI assignments, as the name suggests, are configured for POD Farm 2

system settings. These Global assignments are available regardless of the current Tone Preset, and

persist within the POD Farm 2 application (it is not necessary to save your Tones to retain them).

With a Line 6 FBV MkII controller device, we’ve made things simple by providing a “POD Farm 2”

FBV Control preset to configure your FBV device to access these Tones’ MIDI assignments instantly

(see the next section).

“POD Farm 2” FBV MkII Control Presets

To provide a nice “jump start,” we’ve created “POD Farm 2” FBV MkII control presets that can be

loaded on your device using the Line 6 FBV Control application. These FBV MkII control (.fbv file)

presets load a complete set of MIDI commands on your device for instant POD Farm 2 functionality! It

is recommended that you download and load the FBV control preset on your FBV MkII device before

proceeding with configuring the POD Farm 2 standalone application or Plug-In for your FBV MkII

device. These Presets are available for download from the POD Farm Online Help site:

• For FBV Shortboard MkII - Download the file named “POD Farm 2-Shortboard.fbv.”

• For FBV Express MkII - Download the file named “POD Farm 2-Express.fbv.”

Once you’ve downloaded the FBV control preset file for your device, launch the Line 6 FBV Control

application to load the preset on your FBV MkII:

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• On Mac, go to /Applications/Line 6 and double-click on Line 6 FBV Control

• On Windows, go to Start button menu\Programs\Line 6\Line 6 FBV Control

For additional info, please see “The Line 6 FBV Control Application” on page 3•1.

This automatically loads the complete set of “POD Farm 2” MIDI control settings into the internal

memory of your FBV MkII device. These settings allow you to instantly access many useful “pre-

configured” MIDI control assignments that already exist within POD Farm 2 (as covered in the

previous section). You can view the existing MIDI assignments for any Tone Preset by looking in the

POD Farm 2 “MIDI Assignments View” display (see “The POD Farm 2 MIDI Assignments View” on

page 4•10). MIDI Bank & Program Change settings are also included in the FBV MkII presets to allow

footswitches to navigate Setlists and their Tone Presets. Further, you can also customize these MIDI

assignments individually for any POD Farm 2 Tone, and/or use the POD Farm 2 “MIDI Learn” feature

to easily create your own MIDI assignments (see “MIDI Learn in POD Farm 2” on page 4•10).

With the “POD Farm 2” FBV control preset loaded in your FBV Shortboard or Express MkII device,

the application’s Control Properties list will display all its MIDI settings.

FBV Shortboard MkII

POD Farm 2-Shortboard.fbv preset settings, when loaded in the FBV Control application

The above FBV Shortboard MkII MIDI control settings perform the following functions with POD

Farm 2:

FBV Shortboard MkII Control POD Farm 2 Pre-configured Model & Parameter

Bank Up Next Tone Preset within selected Setlist

Bank Down Previous Tone Preset within selected Setlist

A Selects Setlist 0, and recalls the “0” numbered Tone Preset within

B Selects Setlist 1, and recalls the “0” numbered Tone Preset within

C Selects Setlist 2, and recalls the “0” numbered Tone Preset within

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FBV Shortboard MkII Control POD Farm 2 Pre-configured Model & Parameter

D Selects Setlist 3, and recalls the “0” numbered Tone Preset within

Tap Not in use

Stomp “Stomp” effects (Distortions, Dynamics, Filters) - On/Off

Modulation Mods - On/Off

Delay Delays - On/Off

Reverb Reverbs - On/Off

Toe Switch Wahs - On/Off, Bender effect On/Off

Pedal Wah Wahs - Adjusts Position knob

Pedal 2 No assignment

FBV Shortboard MkII Control POD Farm 2 Pre-configured Global Parameter

(POD Farm 2 Standalone Only)

Function 1 A/B Switch - Toggles between Tone A and Tone B

Function 2 Tuner View - Toggles Tuner View display On/Off

Tap Tap Tempo - Sets System Tempo

Pedal Volume Adjusts the Mixer Tone A Level and Tone B Level

Pre-configured functions provided in POD Farm 2 by the POD Farm 2-Shortboard.fbv preset settings

• Bank Up & Bank Down footswitches - These two footswitches navigate through the Tone

Presets within the currently selected Setlist.

• A, B, C & D footswitches - These footswitches each select the correspondingly numbered

Setlist, as shown in the above table. Each also automatically loads the first Tone Preset within

the selected Setlist (the Preset with “0” to its left). This allows you to then use the Bank Up &

Down footswitches to navigate through all the Tone Presets within the selected Setlist.

Note that no Setlists exist within POD Farm 2 by default, therefore, the Bank Up & Down and A, B, C

& D footswitches will not perform any function until you create up to four Setlists and add Tone Presets

into the Setlists. Please see the POD Farm 2 Basic User Guide for info on creating & managing Setlists

(accessible via the POD Farm 2 Help button, or from the POD Farm Online Help site).

• Effect labeled footswitches and Pedal Wah - These trigger the functions listed above within

some of the POD Farm 2 Tone Presets. Note that not all Tone Presets include all these effects

models and assignments - In most Tone Presets, a few effects models and MIDI assignments exist.

• Toe Switch - As listed in the table above, the Toe Switch may be assigned to either toggle a Wah

model on/off, or the Bender model on/off in some of the Tone Presets within the “POD Farm

2” Source Folder. The Toe Switch additionally has a “hard-wired” function to toggle your FBV

Shortboard MkII “Pedal 1” function between the “Pedal Wah” and “Pedal Volume” assignments.

• Pedal 2 - This control accesses no pre-configured assignment setting. But, since the FBV preset

sets Pedal 2 to transmit a MIDI CC command, you can still utilize the POD Farm 2 MIDI Learn

feature to map these FBV controls to POD Farm 2 functions.

• Function 1, Function 2 & Tap - These controls are all set to access “Global” MIDI assignments,

which only exist as pre-configured MIDI assignments in the POD Farm 2 standalone application

and not in the Plug-In. (However, you can use MIDI Learn to create Global MIDI assignments

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manually within POD Farm 2 Plug-In for any of your FBV MkII controls!) You’ll see more about

Local & Global assignments and MIDI Learn in the following sections.

• Pedal Volume - Adjusts both the Tone A Level and Tone B Level faders within the POD Farm 2

Mixer View simultaneously. If your current POD Farm 2 configuration is a single Tone, then only

the Tone A Level fader is controlled. Note that this is a Global MIDI assignment.

FBV Express MkII

POD Farm 2-Express.fbv preset settings, when loaded in the FBV Control application

The above FBV Express MkII MIDI Controller settings perform the following functions with POD

Farm 2:

FBV Express MkII Control POD Farm 2 Pre-configured Model & Parameter

A Selects the previous Setlist, and loads the first Tone Preset within

B Selects the next Setlist, and loads the first Tone Preset within

C Loads the previous Tone Preset within the selected Setlist

D Loads the next Tone Preset within the selected Setlist

Pedal Wah Wahs - Adjusts Position knob

Toe Switch Wahs - On/Off, or Bender effect On/Off

FBV Express MkII Control POD Farm 2 Pre-configured Global Parameter

(POD Farm 2 Standalone Only)

Pedal Volume Adjusts the Mixer Tone A Level and Tone B Level

Pre-configured functions provided in POD Farm 2 by the POD Farm 2-Express.fbv preset settings

• A & B footswitches - These footswitches select the previous and next correspondingly numbered

Setlist, respectively. Each also automatically loads the first Tone Preset within the selected Setlist

(the preset with the number “0” to its left). This allows you to then use the C & D footswitches

to load Tone Presets within the selected Setlist.

• C & D footswitches - These footswitches select the previous and next correspondingly numbered

Tone Preset within the currently selected Setlist, respectively.

Note that no Setlists exist within POD Farm 2 by default, therefore, the A, B, C & D footswitches will

not perform any function until you create Setlists and add Tone Presets into the Setlists. Please see the

POD Farm 2 Basic User Guide for info on creating and managing Setlists (accessible via the POD Farm

2 Help button, or from the POD Farm Online Help site).

• Toe Switch - As listed in the table above, the Toe Switch may be assigned to toggle a Wah model

on/off, or the Bender model on/off in some of the Tone Presets within the POD Farm 2 Source

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Folder. The Toe Switch additionally has a “hard-wired” function to toggle your FBV Shortboard

MkII “Pedal 1” function between the “Pedal Wah” and “Pedal Vol” assignments.

• Pedal Wah - Adjusts the “Position” knob for Wah models within some of the POD Farm 2 Tone

Presets. In a few Tone Presets, one pedal may also control the Bender model’s “Position” knob,

for some cool pitch bending action.

• Pedal Volume - Adjusts both the Tone A Level and Tone B Level faders within the Mixer View

simultaneously. If your current POD Farm 2 configuration is a single Tone, then only the Tone A

Level fader is controlled. Note that this is a “Global” MIDI assignment and only exists as a “pre-

configured” MIDI assignment in the POD Farm 2 standalone application and not in the Plug-In.

(However, you can use MIDI Learn to create this and other Global MIDI assignments manually

with your FBV Express MkII!)

With these settings made on your FBV MkII, exit the FBV Control application and proceed with the

steps to configure POD Farm 2 standalone application or Plug-In.

POD Farm 2 Standalone Application - MIDI Input Configuration

To use your FBV MkII device with the POD Farm 2 standalone application, you’ll first need to configure

POD Farm 2 to receive MIDI from your connected FBV MkII device’s MIDI port(s).

If you want to control POD Farm 2 Plug-In, please proceed to “POD Farm 2 Plug-In - MIDI Input

Configuration” on page 4•8

. MIDI control of POD Farm 2 Plug-In requires configuring MIDI settings

within your DAW software.

• Launch the POD Farm 2 Preferences dialog and go to the MIDI tab. Here you will be able to

select any connected MIDI controller device or port. Note that you’ll see the four FBV MIDI

Out ports named differently, depending on your computer’s operating system:

Preferences - MIDI dialog on Mac OS® X

Preferences - MIDI dialog on Windows® 7 & Windows® Vista

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Preferences - MIDI dialog on Windows® XP

• As the initial default, you’ll see all ports for all Line 6 MIDI devices already selected. You may

want to de-select all except the ones you want to use for POD Farm 2 control. Your settings will

then be remembered on subsequent uses of the application.

• In the above example you can see that we’ve chosen to receive MIDI from only the Port 1 output

of the connected Line 6 FBV Shortboard MkII controller. (Note that our connected Line 6 UX2

device is also an option, since its Footswitch 1 & 2 connections can be configured to send MIDI

commands as well, but we’ll just be using FBV MkII, port 1 for this example.)

• Click OK to exit the POD Farm 2 Preferences and complete the MIDI input configuration steps.

POD Farm 2 Plug-In - MIDI Input Configuration

POD Farm 2 Plug-In, like all audio effects Plug-Ins, is utilized within your DAW software’s audio tracks.

POD Farm 2 Plug-In can receive MIDI from your FBV MkII USB MIDI Ports to allow remote MIDI

control of its many parameters, however, it is necessary to route the MIDI communication through

your DAW software to access POD Farm 2 Plug-In. This configuration can be slightly different among

DAW applications, so it is recommend that you consult your DAW’s documentation for details. The

process typically entails choosing to receive MIDI from your FBV MkII MIDI Port(s) within the DAW

application, and then routing the MIDI in to one of the DAW’s MIDI tracks and out to the audio track

where POD Farm 2 Plug-In is inserted.

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To follow, we’ve provided a brief tutorial using the popular Ableton Live

DAW application for

configuring an FBV MkII device to access the parameters within POD Farm 2 Plug-In. The steps are

similar using other DAW applications, so this should serve as a good introduction.

TIP: For tutorials on setting up external MIDI control of POD Farm 2 Plug-In within several popular

DAW applications, please be sure to grab the POD Farm 2 Recording Setup Guide - available for

download from the POD Farm Online Help site!

With your FBV MkII device connected to your computer, launch the Ableton Live software, and go to:

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• Mac

- Ableton Live menu > Preferences > MIDI/Sync page

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• Windows

- Options menu > Preferences > MIDI/Sync page

Here you will see that Ableton Live automatically detects your FBV MkII MIDI Out ports. You might

see additional devices’ MIDI Ports appear here as well, depending what other MIDI hardware/software

you have installed on your computer.

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Select your FBV

MIDI Out Port

here (each FBV

port can be

selected for up to

4 MIDI Inputs if

desired)

Click both the

“Track” and

“Remote” buttons

to “On” for your

MIDI Input Port*

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Ableton Live - Selecting FBV MkII as MIDI Inputs (Mac

OS X)

*It is only necessary to turn on the MIDI In “Remote” option to allow Live to receive MIDI control

data from the selected MIDI port. However, to allow Live to receive MIDI into a MIDI track you need

to turn on the “Track” option - You’ll need MIDI track input to route MIDI control data directly to

POD Farm 2 Plug-In.

Note that when selecting the FBV MkII MIDI ports within your DAW, you’ll see the USB MIDI port

names titled differently, depending on your specific computer operating system (for FBV Express MkII,

you’ll see “Express” in place of “Shortboard” in these titles):

Mac OS® X Windows® 7 &

Vista® Windows® XP

MIDI Out Port 1 FBV Shortboard Mk II (Port 1) FBV Shortboard Mk II USB Audio Device

MIDI Out Port 2 FBV Shortboard Mk II (Port 2) MIDIIN2 FBV Shortboard Mk II USB Audio Device [2]

MIDI Out Port 3 FBV Shortboard Mk II (Port 3) MIDIIN3 FBV Shortboard Mk II USB Audio Device [3]

MIDI Out Port 4 FBV Shortboard Mk II (Port 4) MIDIIN4 FBV Shortboard Mk II USB Audio Device [4]

The next step is to insert POD Farm 2 Plug-In on one of your DAW audio tracks, and then configure

your DAW tracks to route the MIDI data into POD Farm 2 Plug-In. For example, here is how to

configure this in Ableton Live, where POD Farm 2 Plug-In is inserted on Audio track 1:

Be sure to Arm the MIDI track

POD Farm 2 Plug-In is inserted

to allow MIDI throughput

on Audio track 1

On a new MIDI track, set the Input to receive

from the FBV MkII MIDI Port from which you are

transmitting commands

Set the Output to be the Audio track where your

POD Farm 2 Plug-In is inserted

The POD Farm 2 Plug-In should then appear as the

“MIDI Output Channel” destination

Configuring Ableton Live for FBV MkII MIDI Input to POD Farm 2 Plug-In

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Once the above MIDI routing is configured, you are now ready to put that FBV MkII to use with the

POD Farm 2 Plug-In!

The POD Farm 2 MIDI Assignments View

The MIDI Assignments View displays all MIDI control assignments for the current Tone Preset within

the POD Farm 2 standalone application and POD Farm 2 Plug-In. As covered on page 4•3, if you’ve

loaded the “POD Farm 2” FBV control preset within your FBV MkII device, then you’ll be able to

access the “pre-configured” MIDI assignments within the POD Farm 2 Tone Presets. Use the MIDI

Assignments View to reference each MIDI assignment and each specific MIDI command and value

required to control the assigned parameters. Use the Clear buttons to remove any existing assignment.

MIDI Assignments button Automation Assignments button (standalone app. only) Clear All options

Clear button “Global” MIDI Assignment

“Local” MIDI assignment

(in yellow text)

(in white text)

The POD Farm 2 MIDI Assignments View

Local and Global MIDI Assignments

Note that “Local” MIDI assignments are specific to (and, therefore, saved with) the current POD

Farm 2 Tone Preset. Many Tone Presets found in the POD Farm 2 Source Folder have Local MIDI

assignments already saved with each Tone Preset file. “Global” MIDI assignments persist within the

POD Farm 2 standalone application or current Plug-In instance, regardless of the Preset in use. The

POD Farm 2 standalone application also includes several pre-configured Global MIDI assignments.

Local and Global MIDI assignments can be created manually using your FBV MkII controller and the

POD Farm MIDI Learn feature (see next section). For more details on the MIDI Assignments View,

please refer to the POD Farm 2 Basic User Guide.

MIDI Learn in POD Farm 2

The POD Farm 2 MIDI Learn feature allows you to easily “map” your FBV MkII device’s footswitches

or pedals to practically any POD Farm 2 parameter. You can use MIDI Learn to “customize” any POD

Farm 2 Tone Preset to include any number of MIDI assignments from your FBV MkII device. The steps

for using MIDI Learn are quite simple:

• In POD Farm 2 (standalone application or Plug-In), load a Tone Preset, or configure a Tone with

the desired models.

• Double-click on any model in the Signal Flow View to load its Edit Panel in the Panel View.

• Within the Edit Panel, right click (Windows) or Ctrl+click (Mac) directly on the model’s knob,

slider or switch that you want to control remotely and select the MIDI Control menu.

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• In the MIDI Control sub-menu, click MIDI Learn. This places POD Farm 2 into MIDI Learn

mode, where it waits to receive a command from your connected MIDI control device.

• Now just stomp the footswitch or wangle the pedal on your FBV that you want to “map” to the

selected parameter, and the FBV control will instantly be “learned” by POD Farm 2.

All POD Farm 2 parameters that offer MIDI Learn will “learn” any MIDI CC, Note-On or Pitch Bend

type messages. Before using MIDI Learn, you must, therefore, assign these MIDI message types to the

FBV MkII’s controls using the Line FBV Control application. Also note that most “on/off” switch

parameters within POD Farm 2 will require that you set your controls’ MIDI CC switch modes to

“Toggle” (to toggle the parameter between on and off) or to “Momentary” (to set the parameter to “on”

only when the switch is held).

Also worth noting is that most popular DAW applications offer their own “MIDI Learn” capabilities,

which are separate from the POD Farm 2 MIDI Learn functions covered here. Within DAW

applications that offer MIDI control features, it is usually possible to use your FBV MkII to remotely

access numerous DAW mix and track parameters, including POD Farm 2 Plug-In and other Plug-

In parameters via the DAW application’s track options. We’ve covered these capabilities within the

“FBV™ MkII with 3rd Party Software” chapter.

For more information on POD Farm 2 MIDI control, please see the additional POD Farm 2

documentation, available from the POD Farm Online Help site.

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