POD2VAMP Patch Converter
POD2VAMP Converter is "guiltware."
If you would like to reward me for my efforts, and you find this converter useful, please make a $5 to $10 donation on my PayPal account.
Any donations received will be taken as votes of confidence. If I receive enough, I may be forced to give back to the V-Amp commmunity again and read directly from .LIB files, port to a "true" executable, and maybe even tackle patches by other modelers. Your donations will be used to purchase a tube power amp and speakers to run my upgraded V-Amp through for live performance. Thanks for your support!
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Some notes about the converter:
  1. It's converts from POD Sysex format to V-Amp Sysex format, not from .LIB to .LIB. The POD's .LIB format is much more tricky and not documented like the Sysex Spec is, so you're stuck with a little extra work if you want to convert your own patches. Perhaps V2.0 (if it ever is made!) will convert directly from .LIB to .LIB.
  2. POD and V-Amp don't represent parameter day in the same ways for effect parameters. For example, POD uses the period in milliseconds for some speeds, and V-Amp uses everything in Hz values. V-Amp also uses 0-127 for Depth, while POD uses number of millisecond periods at 31.2 KHz. As result, some of the effects, especially the Depths, may be off. Use the translation as a starting point.
  3. The amp models for POD and V-Amp are very similar, so the basic patch sounds should be close to the target. There are only a couple of amps from the POD that don't have a close equivalent on the V-Amp. To see the Amp mappings I used, check out the patch library sorted by V-Amp Model.
  4. These models should work for V1.0 or V2.0 of the V-Amp. V1.0 should take the same format, but just won't understand the new amps. However, I don't know what will happen if you try to load a V2.0 patch into your V-Amp. Probably get some kind of error....
What you need to use it:
  1. TclPro V1.4 from Scriptics. Get it here. The install code is: 1094-320C-1G38-2U24-P8YY
  2. Emagic's POD patch editor software. Download it from Line6's site.
  3. Behringer's V-Amp Editor, of course! Download from www.v-amp.com.
  4. A MIDI connection from your computer to your V-Amp.
How to convert a patch:
  1. First, get the POD patch you want to convert. Most patches come in .LIB format. So, the first thing to do is to convert it to .MID format, or a Sysex dump of a single patch.
    1. Start emagic's editor. No, you don't need a Line6 product in order to load a patch and save as MIDI file. Just hit escape when it searches for a Line6 device. Hit 'skip' or 'abort'.
    2. Load .LIB into emagic's editor using File | Open.
    3. If multiple patches are part of the library, double click the one you want.
    4. Now go to File | Export MIDI File and store your .MID file.
  2. Next, after downloading and extracting pod2vamp.tbc and configuration.tcl, put it somewhere in your PATH, or just copy the .MID file to the same directory you placed the pod2vamp files.
  3. Open a "DOS" shell and run the program using the command line "protclsh83 pod2vamp.tbc {input file} (Don't enclose the input file in brackets.) This should output a file with the same root file name, but with a .syx extension.
  4. Load the new .syx file to your V-Amp through the Behringer software.

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