Oh this is so true!!! I had discovered last year or so that the proprietary ASIO drivers for devices do not co-exist well making it near impossible. I gave up, mine sits idle collecting dust
I have used a Pod XT with no problems whatsoever. I don’t see what the fuzz is all about.
I use it as a backup on the go. By the way, I use Line 6 plugins in most of my mixes (professional). I would love to see some kind of integration and included plugs. It will be interesting to see what happens with Reason. Doesn’t Line 6 own Propellerhead? The beat features of Reason included in Cubase would be amazing!
When I first saw this I figured Yamaha wanted access to Line6’s modeling technologies, and not their audio interface capibilities - I love my Variax and PodHD500. This is the bulk of Line6’s product mix. A very common reason for companies to buy other companies is for the patents. Yamaha already possesses the capability to build audio interfaces, they wouldn’t need to buy Line6 to get that (unless there was a potential patent violation Yamaha is trying to avoid which seems unlikely).
This posting on KVR reinforces my opinion.
I also see this this is a good thing. Seems to me Steinberg’s customer responsiveness improved after Yamaha got involved.
As a humorous side note on patents, I just finished taking the Coursera ChucK programming class - which is a language to do music with and I highly recommend for those so inclined. In the language documentation the following boilerplate appears many times
The basic Chowning/Stanford FM patent expired
in 1995, but there exist follow-on patents,
mostly assigned to Yamaha. If you are of the
type who should worry about this (making
money) worry away.
Excellent point about the independence. And that shows Yamaha is smart about their acquisitions and not trying to double-guess the expertise of the companies they buy.