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Variax News 01-11-06

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	11-01-06 * Variax and Vetta - Guide to Wireless Communications 13-02-06 * Variax - Electric - Nylon String examples 11-01-06 * Variax - Tweak Tips - Alt Tunings 10-01-06 * Variax - New Flashmemory V3.10 06-01-06 * Variax - Automated Variax Reference sheet 10-08-05 * Variax - Variax Registration and Monkey xx- xx- 05 * Variax 500 / 700 How to install a different neck

Variax & Vetta 2.5 - Guide to Wireless Communications... 01-11-06

Now how this for support. Line 6 has gone the extra mile for bringing a solution to have Wireless communication Between Vetta II and Variax! In the latest Vetta II update, Version 2.5, a new unplublicized feature was added at request of some high profile artists. This feature allows a Vetta II ampliflier to cummunicate with a Variax guitar wirelessly with some special cables, an off the shelf MIDI wireless system and an audio wireless system.

We've added a complete guide to making your own Wireless communication set possible, how to set it up, waht you need and how to operate it. Complete with diagrams... Interested? Follow the link.

• the Guide to Wireless Communication - Vetta II and Variax

source:Line 6 / VETTAVILLE.NL

Tweak Tips - Variax - Alt Tunings... 11-01-06

With the development of Variax Workbench software, you can now tune your Variax electric to any alternate tuning you like. The Variax Acoustic 700 has this feature built into the guitar itself. With the physical Variax tuned to standard pitch, however, the Variax DSP must create the alternate tunings in real time, note by note as you play. This is no easy task, and as with any developing technology, there are limitations. To get the best musical experience from your alt-tuned Variax, please check out the following four Alternate Tuning Tips. They address the most frequently asked questions of Variax owners.

1.Guitar Volume Balance: If you hear the standard tuning of your physical Variax along with the alt-tuning, your ears may be fooled into thinking the alt-tuning is out of tune. This is especially true for Acoustic 700 owners, but the solution is easy. In a studio situation, turn up your headphones; in a live situation, turn up the volume of your alt-tuned guitar amp or stage monitor so that it drowns out the physical guitar sound. When you adjust your guitar volume balance so that all you hear is the alt-tuned guitar, your alt-tuning will sound the way you expect it to.

2.Odd-Sounding Notes: If you use pull-offs, especially on an open G string that's tuned down a full step or more, or if you use Capo mode and tune several frets up or down and play harmonics or hammer-ons, you may sometimes hear odd-sounding notes. The general cure for this is to adjust your playing technique so that you play very cleanly when doing pull-offs, play with a lighter touch on extremely alt-tuned notes and harmonics, fret your notes accurately, and avoid any problem zones that may produce odd sounds. It’s not difficult to get clean-sounding alt-tuning tracks. It just takes a little time to adapt to the particular alt-tuning you're using, then avoid any obvious problem spots you may encounter by adjusting your playing technique and choice of notes.

3.Ringing Overtones: When you play certain notes and you don’t mute your other strings, occasionally a note you're playing may cause a harmonic to resonate from a non-muted string. This can be a good thing, but sometimes it may result in an odd sound as in #2 above. The solution is to mute the strings you aren't using, especially when playing single notes. This way the DSP won't be 'confused' by unwanted notes resonating against the intended note.

4.Amp Sounds: For Variax Acoustic Models, use an Amp Bypass setting or go direct whenever possible. Acoustics, Resos, Sitar, etc. don't like preamp gain, so cleaner is better in order to bring out the full range of these Models. If you use a Vetta II or PODxt Live, it’s a good idea to set up an Amp Preset for each of your favorite alt-tuned Variax Models, and save the Variax Model with your Amp Preset.

Source: Line 6

Variax - New Flashmemory V 3.10... 10-01-06

Line 6 released new flashmemory. Here are the highlighted changes

• Fixed bug in the 12-string and Alt.-tuned models that caused F# at the 16th fret on the D string not to track.
• Improved pitch tracking speed, vibrato tracking and general tracking stability for 12-string and Alt.-tuned models.
• Detune amount is lessened for User 12-string Models.

Please update using Line 6 Monkey 1.10 or later. There are different versions for Variax 300/600 and the Variax 500/700 models.

• Click here to go to the Line 6 downloadarea
  

Source: Line 6

Variax - Automated Variax Reference Sheet... 06-01-06

The Automated Variax Workbench Reference Sheet provides a single page reference sheet of the models stored on your Variax. It loads with the default contents of the Variax Electrics.

• The Automated Variax Workbench Reference Sheet is an Excel sheet providing a single page reference sheet of the models stored on your Variax. It loads with the default (factory) contents of the Variax Electrics 300, 500, 600 and 700.
• The layout of the sheet is optimised for printing, and it automatically substitutes default Variax names for their historical counterparts, eg. "Spank-1" will appear as "(B) 1959 Fender Stratocaster"
• If you enable macros, it's also able to read the HTML files exported by workbench, supporting the same features for your custom or renamed models. Models which are named as one of the defaults (it doesn't have to be in the same position) will automatically be displayed using the name of the historical counterpart. Models with names you have created will appear with the name you gave them.

• More on the Automated Variax Workbench referencesheet

Source: ANDY ALLSOPP

Variax Registration while using the monkey... 10-08-05

When you are updating your Variax through the Monkey app. As small error will come up while trying to get your Variax registration done. The registration confirmation error on Variax family members has been around for a while. If you've registered, it's confirmable independently through "My Account".

It's only when the Monkey goes to check your status that the wrong value is returned. Line 6 willl get fixed at some point, so please click "remind me later" in the mean time and one day it just won't appear.

source: LINE 6

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