I Hate Line6

So Line6 have basically revolutionised the way people can record guitars with their Pod and TonePort technologies. It is however only for that reason that I have not chucked my TonePort UX2 out the window. I am pretty annoyed because it has been 5 months since Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard was released and since then it seems like Line6 have done nothing to provide its users with updated driver software. They currently have a crap beta version that is no use if you actually want to use the hardware on a day-to-day basis. Given the number of Macs in audio and that all new ones ship with Snow Leopard, I would not be surprised if Line6 have essentially lost half their market! And its not just a Mac problem, they have also been having difficulties with the new Windows 7 drivers. I cannot quite understand how they can be taking so long to solve this, is their software engineering department made up of a bunch of stupid, lay-about interns? Because that is the only explanation I can see. I rely upon two audio interfaces: an M-AUDIO Firewire 410 and my UX2. Now M-AUDIO don't have the best reputation for drivers but they managed to create a fully 64-bit, stable, 10.6 compatible driver update months ago! So it is clearly not a problem with Apple not releasing details of its new software early enough. I don't mind waiting a month or two for drivers, but soon it'll be half a year and no news.

Argh I am getting very pissed off - Line6, what the f*ck are you doing?

A Mass of Cables

Quick Crunchie Boost update. I went into the lab today to do some work since all week it's been impossible to get my hands on the apparatus. Then I find that someone has left an experiment running all weekend on the very piece of kit I needed, grrrr. The only option was therefore to curse for about 3 min and then do some more work on my effects pedal. After a couple of hours of soldering it is getting very close to completion (in terms of the electronics anyway), however it is also a highly confusing mass of green cable (as I couldn't be bothered to buy multiple colours)...