Using the CustomTone online library
Line6 runs something called CustomTone.com where you can find and download tones that have been tweaked by others. Assuming you have the latest L6Edit and Monkey and your Flex3 hooked up to a working MIDI gameport or whatever.- Turn on the Flex3
- Start up Monkey. It should detect the presence of the Flex3. If not, you've got a MIDI problem somewhere.
- Exit Monkey. It was just to test the link works and the latest updates are in place. You don't really need Monkey.
- Start up L6Edit. It will talk to the Flex3 and load the Flex3 stored patches.
- Start up your favorite browser (Firefox in my case) and visit the CustomTone library.
- Find any tone you like and press the [GET TONE] button on the page.
- The selected patch will now be downloaded into L6Edit and your Flex3 edit memory. You can hear it as you play.
- Save it to any patch in the Flex3 or on you hard drive using L6Edit.
- Bob's your uncle.
CustomTone is a library of patches with many unverified uploads from L6 users and L6 themselves. Since you don't know anything about the quality and reliability of the uploads, you run all kinds of risks, much like downloading software to your pc without running a virus scanner. So far Line6 appears to have done nothing to prevent bad patches to be detected in any way before they wreak havoc in your amp. Maybe you run across one that will fukc up your amp to the extent where the factory reset won't work either as a last resort. Then what?
By all this I am not saying that people intentionally upload bad patches, but it is clear that bad patches exist. Since at the heart of it all are the L6 tools and technology, they are the ones to address these issues. I wish they showed the professionalism to own up to that. The REAL bad news is that they still haven't.
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File last updated on Sat, 17 May 2008 12:00:56 +0200.