Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

Stomp, Mod & Delay/Verb Models • Synth Modelsconstant. This meant that up until the advent of Bass PODXT Live bassists had to playonly in the key of that pitch to be musical. The Saturn 5 RM “tracks” the pitch of yourbass signal. This allows you to use the effect at that setting in ANY key. This is aGIANT leap forward for ring modulator effects and bassists everywhere! And by theway, one of our tonal argonauts was quick to find out that waveforms 5 and 8 makeawesome “sub octave” effects that sound very different than the “Sub Octave” effectfound in the MOD slot.Synth AnalogThese are great for funky synth bass lines! These sounds were made popular by Moogand ARP, Shades of Keith Emerson, Dr. Dre and Stevie Wonder and their wonderfulleft hand synth bass parts!Synth FXThese sounds aren’t really designed to be musical, but since your Bass PODXT Live hasboth MODEL and D.I. outputs you can blend these “special effects” with your unaffecteddirect sound for some very interesting and quite usable results. On their own, these aresounds you’ll hear in movie sound tracks…or at Halloween parties…or in cutting-edgeclub remixes…6 • 19Synth HarmonyThere are two waves at work here and they can be used in combination to create somevery big bass synth tones, similar to the hard-to-find but very popular Moog Tauruspedals. The WAVE parameter controls the gain of the saw wave, while the square wavegain remains constant. Don’t forget – square waves and sawtooth waves set at the samepitch incrementSynth LeadThese are styled after popular analog monophonic synth lead sounds from Moog, ARPand Sequential Circuits. Remember that your Bass PODXT Live gives you a 6-BandSemi-Parametric EQ in front of your synths, so you’re free to poke around in the “freqzone” for just the right tone. It may be helpful to know that “shelving” your upperfrequencies, which means drastically reducing them, is a way to make your bass soundeven more like a synth than it already does!* All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated oraffiliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purposeof identifying the specific products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.