TonePort is like a rack full of premium tube recording equipment, plus a perfectly engineered recording room for guitar and bass, thanks to our acclaimed guitar/bass direct tone with mic and cab modeling. TonePort even comes with a special Line 6 edition of Ableton Live so you can start making great sounding recordings as soon as you open the box!
The included GearBox software controls TonePort and gives you a premium tone front end for all your recordings. Includes meticulously crafted models of premium tube studio preamps, vintage guitar and bass rigs, and sought after, personality-rich effects.
This is the tone that pros rely on and only Line 6 provides. Now it comes to your desktop with TonePort.
Guitar and Bass
Built on the technological foundation of the studio-standard POD XT and Bass POD XT direct recording devices, GearBox provides a hardware-like, simple to understand and operate interface for dialing in the perfect tone every time.
GearBox's meticulously crafted recreations of a dream collection of 16 classic and modern guitar amplifiers, 5 must-have bass amp models, and 24 stompbox and studio effects capture the range of tone found on the best tracks ever recorded. You can mix and match PODXT-based amp and cab models based on * Marshall®, Fender®, Mesa/Boogie®, Vox®, Roland®, Soldano and more, with realistic looking controls that make any guitarist feel right at home.
Microphone Input
TonePort hardware features studio-grade microphone preamps that make getting a truly professional-grade vocal tone easy. The exclusive GearBox tone software gives you models of the most sought after preamps in the recording world. GearBox even lets you run a completely different signal path for your microphone input with models of vintage preamps, compressors, and reverbs while still giving you the ultimate direct recording sound for your guitar or bass.
Keyboard
You’ve recorded the guitar, bass, and vocal parts. Now it’s time to add all the extras with the integrated keyboard controller. TonePort KB37 maximizes your creativity with a full-sized 37-note velocity sensitive keyboard controller to add even more sounds. You also get pitch bend/modulation wheels, transport control and patch select buttons, and four assignable real-time knobs & buttons so you can tweak to your heart’s content.
2 Mic Inputs with +48v Phantom Power
1 Guitar/Bass Inputs – use the Pad button for high gain input guitars and basses with high level pickup outputs, or with the Pad button off for normal input
Stereo Line Inputs for your line out level gear
Expression pedal input to control GearBox wah/volume or MIDI
Stereo Digital Output S/PDIF via RCA
Stereo Line Outputs via balanced 1/4-inch
Stereo Monitor Input via stereo 1/4-inch jack
Headphone Output with independent volume knob
VU Meters assignable to input, record send, output and monitor levels
Dual footswitch jacks for control of GearBox (effect on/off, tone select, tap tempo, etc.) or MIDI/recording software (sustain, start/stop, punch in/out, etc.)
Pro Audio Performance with over 100dB signal-to-noise & dynamic range
Unique, full tone low latency monitoring regardless of recording software's buffer size
44.1 & 48KHz, 16 & 24 bit recording
96KHz mode with built-in sample rate conversion for simultaneous input and output
VU Meters assignable to input, record send, output and monitor levels
37-note full-sized velocity sensitive keyboard with Pitch/Mod wheels for MIDI control
5 Transport buttons, 2 Patch Select buttons & 2 Control button/knobs - all assignable to GearBox and MIDI/recording software functions
USB-powered
Drivers: ASIO, WDM, Mac OS X
System Requirments
WINDOWS
Pentium® 4 1.2GHz or better (2.5Ghz or more recommended)
Windows XP® (with SP2 only) or Windows® 2000 (with SP4 or later)
512MB RAM minimum (1GB or more recommended)
1GB free HD space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)
Drive speed 5400rpm minimum (7200rpm or faster recommended)
CD-ROM drive
Internet connection for online features
MACINTOSH®
G4 1.25GHz or better (G4 1.67 or better recommended)
OS X 10.4 or better
512MB RAM minimum (1GB or more recommended)
1GB free HD space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)
Drive speed 5400rpm minimum (7200rpm or faster recommended)
CD-ROM drive
Internet connection for online features
USB
One free USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible port on computer, or self-powered USB hub (requires power from USB, so bus-powered USB hubs are not supported)
