Line 6 UX2 - TOTAL FRUSTRATION!

[Old-Bugga]

Argh....having thought I had my setup sorted yesterday, I set about adding the final piece of the puzzle, my Line 6 UX2 Gearbox.

Previously, this never really gave me any problems on my old system/setup. Installed it, and away I went. Not this time.

Using Reaper, my PC's built in 5.1 soundcard (which actually performs really well, so I am loathe to touch it) and ASIO4ALL to get my midi latency free, all was going well.

However, can I get my UX2 to work....nope! I have it connected via USB and had the analog outs going to my soundcards Line In. Result, latency. Can I get it to work any other way...nope. Have tried selecting the UX2 ASIO as my soundcard and get nothing.

I really want to avoid replacing my current surround setup as I use it elsewhere.

Can anyone shed any light on this or am I trying to do whats impossible with the UX2. If so, what is a works out of the box unit that will let me plug in a 1/4" jack and a phantom powered mic?

 

[TetraFish]

Have you tried pluging in to the headphones when you had it selected as your input device?

I don't know reaper but maybe but in cubase I know you have to configure the ins and outs, maybe thats the problem.

Also think of the UX2 as your sound card. Once it's selected in reaper you can't use your built in sound. You need to connect some studio monitors or headphones direct to the UX2 to get any sound.

 

[kcearl]

Yup use the UX2 as your soundcard, disable the onboard one (right click computer, properties, hardware device, disable soundcard) then choose line 6 asio drivers

 

[Old-Bugga]

I THINK I am where I want to be. Jees...what is always this hard?

Set my UX2 up as a seperate input source to my AV Receiver and I can now do everything I need to. Took some amount of tweaking to get it all set.

So...for recording I now monitor via my UX2.

Only one SLIGHt weirdness, is that if I am playing guitar, it comes out of predominantly my centre speaker, unless I add, say. chorus in which case it goes stereo.

If I drag an audio track in I get full stereo.

Anyway...I think I am set to at least try and have some fun and get back into this now.

 

[kcearl]

the guitar is a mono signal...the chorus spreads it out like a stereo signal so that may be why..

its always a bit of a PITA at first but them you can hopefully get on with things when its done...the fact you're an old buga probably doesnt help

 

[TetraFish]

Yeah we've all been through the PITA stage. After a whike though it becomes second nature. Glad you're up and running.