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by **DeathMonster34** » Tue May 30, 2006 10:01 pm

Well it seems to happen everytime!! I mean i used my Pod XT Live 2 months ago with GP but then i just left it gathering dust while i used just the GP. right now i decided to connect the Pod XT Live and now its telling me that i need to activate it. i press the activation button and typed "refresh" and all seemed well when it said that it was just gonna run a quick check for updates. But after it was done the button was still there and when i clicked on it and it was the same deal!! This only happens when i plug in the Pod XT Live. When i just use the GP it works fine and i could hear playback and there is no activation button. Can anyone help me?!!!

-Juan

by **camaro24gold** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:04 am

Are you going through this while online or offline? If offline then going on might be the trick. Excuse me if I am somehow missing this.

I finally did break down a while back and got a license for my xtLive. (the one advantage is I get the L6 V2 update now free.....referring to some posts I did while back)

Anyhow...I have a partitioned drive with one side being my main RiffWorks partition. RiffWorks is on the other side also just for kicks so I can do some minor things while maybe being on net or whatever.
Anyways...I was having this very same thing happening on the main side. The other side worked fine from the get go.
On the main side I could get it to activate by turning the xtLive off and back on.
Then RiffWorks would recognize it and act fine. However it did this every time and it annoyed me. I finally just decided to reformat that side. Works great now.

Just a note also......I use Norton Ghost...and in my opinion it is a lifesaver providing you do regular backups. It is the only backup software I have ever used that really will bring EVERYTHING back to snuff. I have used retrospect and it just didn’t do the job like ghost does. Ghost operates outside the os and I believe that’s why. If you keep up to date with your backups and then you do something wrong or just goes wrong, it will get ya back on track easy. I think it’s one of Nortons best programs. I don’t even have Microsofts System restore turned on anymore which as a benefit frees up a lot of disk space But this is just my opinion also. Just a suggestion. Probably too much information ....huh?? :-)

by **camaro24gold** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:37 am

ps...the reason ghost couldn't help me with the main RiffWorks partition was some how something was wrong with RiffWorks or something else, and this drive was already backed up that way. It of course didn't show up until I bought the license for the xtLive. After the reformat and everything checked out I backed that up.
Good luck and I hope you can resolve this.

by **DeathMonster34** » Wed May 31, 2006 2:44 am

wow...too much information LOL. I dont know if i can understand everything you told me but...I dont know. What are you saying when you said main side,etc.The search for the solution continues. =]

by **camaro24gold** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:54 am

LOL...I am sorry...I might have been way too tired when I posted

1. Have you tried the activation while online? If you haven't then try going online and activate. Just like when you had to do that the first time you set up RiffWorks. You just might have to do it again and hopefully that will resolve the problem.

2. If that doesn't help or you already tried that then try turning the POD xtLive off and then back on. A little "amp" kinda looking window should pop up when you turn it back on that will say connecting to POD xtLive. After that another window will come up saying if you started RiffWorks with another piece of hardware blah blah. Just ignor it and go ahead and see if your POD will work now.

3. Ignor everything else I said before.....

Good luck

by **gatorjj** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:27 am

I read the original post again, are you trying to use RiffWorks with a Guitar Port, and also the PODxt Live? I think you need to transfer the license to whichever hardware you are using at the Line6 website, it uses the hardware as the license key.

by **camaro24gold** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:36 am

gatorjj
yeah...I am glad you mentioned that. I took it for granted that both hardwares had licenses.
Man...I really need to switch to some higher cafine coffee.

by **DeathMonster34** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 5:51 am

well i'm always online since i have broadband. And no i'm not trying to use both GP and the Pod at the same time. Ok to make sure you all see my scenario...when i use RW it asks me at the startup that it detects 2 line 6 products which is of course the GP and the Pod and which 1 i'd like to use. If i choose the GP everything goes well but when i tell it that i want to use the Pod it loads up with the Activation button on top. Also i had bought the combo pack of GP and Rifftracker so i had no license key to unlock it with. It just installed and i typed refresh and thats it.

by **camaro24gold** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:40 pm

Ok...you are going thru exactly what I did and you're right there in no license key to transfer when you buy it as a box set...RiffWorks and the Guitarport software/hardware. RiffWorks is going to detect all hardware hooked up to it even though there is no license on the POD xtLive.
The POD xtLive should work with the Guitatport software...but it will not work with RiffWorks if it doesn't have a RiffWorks license. Frustrating I know. I ended up going ahead and getting a license for my xtLive. I think I read somewhere that Line 6 is working on a way to correct this.

If it (POD xtLive) was working with RiffWorks before then that was a fluke of some kind and I really don't know what to say.

by **DeathMonster34** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:38 pm

Well at least i found someone with the same scenario. But yea i was able to use the pod with RW just once and never again has it worked. You said, however, that it should work with the GP. Well this isnt true, at least for me. No matter wat i use i hear nothing from the input. I guess I'll have to contact customer service. =[ thanx

by **camaro24gold** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:13 pm

Hey...just quick question. Is the xt working with Line 6 Edit and/or Line 6 Monkey?

by **DeathMonster34** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:24 pm

Yea it is! But somehow it doesnt work with RW or GP. With GP i'm just able to edit the tones and transfer them to my Pod but i can't hear anything if you know wat i mean. The Line 6 monkey works perfectly with all.

by **camaro24gold** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:01 pm

Okay....when you have the POD hooked up with the USB and GP is on you can't hear the POD anymore? Cause (lets say you have headphone plugged into the POD) you should be able to hear changes you make in GP thru those phones. If the POD is losing sound when GP starts up I not sure what’s going on then. There will be no sounds coming out the sound card cause the POD is the "sound card". As far as RiffWorks go that's the license thing. As a temp for RiffWorks, you could hook up your guitar to the xtLive, then the main out into your GuitarPort hardware. In the GP software turn all effects off and no amp. This would let you record the xt into RiffWorks. You just won't have xt edit capabilities on the PC.

by **DeathMonster34** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:06 pm

Well i dont put the headphones on the Pod just the GP. i then run the USB to the pod and connect my guitar input to the pods input. But yea i just finished messaging line6 customer service. =/

by **camaro24gold** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:37 pm

To have the POD work with the GP software you need the USB to POD and headphones outta POD. Forget the GP hardware.

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