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Re: Line 6 M-13 and continuos controllers - and Line6 products ingeneral (a little bit of whining)



they love to keep things "bonehead simple" over there... I guess they  
think we're a little bit dumb.
or maybe it helps them sell more boxes to the dumber people people  
which probably outnumber us.

it is a shame since their stuff really is THAT good....

Teddy

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On Nov 9, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Rainer Straschill wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> thanks for that lengthy report on the M13.
>
> I find it interesting (and this is also in line with a lot of your
> findings) that Line6 seems to have a really odd strategy when defining
> their products, in so much that they always give you about 85% of the
> features you long for (and a few extra ones as well), but then leave a
> few really important ones uncovered. Examples here (without any claim
> of completeness):
>
> The (original and second-generation if I remember correctly as well)
> PODs came in a guitar and a bass guitar version (just like most
> competing products and all "high-level" ones). For some reason, the
> bass versions never had any delay effects but for some reason three or
> four distortion effect models. Then there was the wonderful Teletronix
> compressor model which you also mentioned - but it didn't exist in the
> guitar version.
>
> The rack version of the DL4 (don't remember the name, it was
> discontinued rather quickly if I remember correctly) had MIDI sync for
> its delays, but no MIDI sync for the looper.
>
> With all of their devices flexibility is lacking a great deal. You
> mentioned the great things you can do with the expression pedal, and I
> have to agree that for the DL4 the expression pedal implementation
> really rocked regarding that market segment. However with the M-13
> (which I regard as not just a stompbox, but a very complex beast), why
> not give the possibility to use more complex curves. I always remember
> my Sony HR-GP5, a device from the end of the 80ies (if I remember
> correctly), which still sits in one of my racks, because you could
> (among other things) assign complex controller mappings for (a maximum
> of two) expression pedals and four MIDI CCs.
>
> And you had a very flexible routing structure - almost any combination
> of serial and parallel, something I've yet to find with some Line6
> stuff. I'll talk a little bit about the POD X3 which I have: you have
> two independent processing paths, but you can't route one path's
> output to the other part (to cascade two amps, or two delays, or
> whatever). Then you always have the effects order stomp->delay->mod,
> you can't change that. No distortion after the delay e.g. No parallel
> routing, either (and I believe that's also true for the M-13).
>
> What bugs me most about the X3 that it gives you almost all of the
> effects from the stompbox modelers, yet leaves some very nice ones out
> for no apparent reason. Why on earth did they just leave out the
> dynamic delay and the tri-state chorus?
>
> It seems to me that the Line6 stuff is really great for people who
> don't feel comfortable editing patches (which I assume, are not that
> many on this list) - they simply keep you from editing a lot. I got my
> X3 because I wanted a floorboard amp modeller with effects which
> equally well caters to guitar and bass guitar - and for that, it was
> the best choice. Still, if there was a product which, say, combined
> the Boss GT-10 and GT-10B in one device, I'd get rid of my X3 and
> never look back.
>
>        Rainer
>
> (It needs to be said that I like the amp and also some of the effect
> models better than all/most of the competitors. This however from
> someone who can't hear the difference anyway)
>