Getting Pod Farm presets from Pro Tools into Logic

All of a sudden I've contracted not one but two albums for the mainline guitar work. On both, part of the deal is that I'll track my solos here in the Woodshed. On some of them, I'll be using amp sims. (Insert purist freak-out here!) So I'm trying to inventory my available artillery.

A coupla years back, I tweaked up some pretty snazzy Pod Farm presets in Pro Tools LE8, but the PT rig is now in mothballs and I've been using Logic for well over a year now. (No turning back at this point.) ... The PT presets don't show up in the Logic Pod Farm GUI. So there's gotta be a way to transfer them ... or is there? Could they be locked into PT for eternity due to being different file types?

Anybody familiar enough with both DAWs to steer me right? Google no help so far.

All of a sudden I've contracted not one but two albums for the mainline guitar work. On both, part of the deal is that I'll track my solos here in the Woodshed. On some of them, I'll be using amp sims. (Insert purist freak-out here!) So I'm trying to inventory my available artillery.

A coupla years back, I tweaked up some pretty snazzy Pod Farm presets in Pro Tools LE8, but the PT rig is now in mothballs and I've been using Logic for well over a year now. (No turning back at this point.) ... The PT presets don't show up in the Logic Pod Farm GUI. So there's gotta be a way to transfer them ... or is there? Could they be locked into PT for eternity due to being different file types?

Anybody familiar enough with both DAWs to steer me right? Google no help so far.

My gut tells me you have to start from scratch.

My gut tells me you have to start from scratch.

That's my guess too.

Can you take a rough stereo mix into PT, do your thing, print it (render, whatever you call it) and export that into Logic?

Yeah, you lose tweakability, but no more so than if you'd recorded an amp. And, you could always go back to the PT track, I suppose.

Again, just a guess, but I don't think that kinda stuff is cross-platform.

Cheers,
Geoff

That's what I was afraid of. Back to the drawing board!

Unless you had the online service where you shared your settings with other GearBox users (Tonelocker IIRC) then retrieving your settings from PT is your only option, and then you may have to write them down and re-do them in your current DAW.

It might be a different story if you were using Pod Farm as a stand alone. This what I usually do if I make my own patches since it is saved in the Line 6 app folder.

Check your Line 6 folder and see if a copy of your settings ended up there. You may be able to either copy into the plug-in or just make a new setting.

Wood, I don't think so.

You can probably look at your settings (or screen shot and print them) and replicate... the amp sims in logic are really good... you should be able to get close pretty fast...

Wood, I don't think so.

You can probably look at your settings (or screen shot and print them) and replicate... the amp sims in logic are really good... you should be able to get close pretty fast...

Yeah, I don't mean to be discounting the Logic sims by any means. They're all I've used since changing over and I haven't used Pod Farm or Amplitube since then. But my library isn't that extensive yet, so my thought when posting was to expand the horizon.

However, I woke up thinking about it this morning and realized that I got those presets by working at a tone that serves a particular tune, and it's worth the time to reinvent a specific wheel for a specific song. So, no great loss, just an opportunity to learn and refine.

Woodman, I just checked with the product mgr here for POD Farm (yes I am at Line 6). He said you can save your patch using the preset manager within the plugin and you should be able to port that across to Logic. If you save it within the method you'd normally save presets in ProTools, it's probably saved as a .tfx file. Logic has it's own proprietary format, as each DAW will. Just note where you save the preset using the preset manager in POD Farm and copy that over where you need it.

Caveat... I'm not looking or running this as I'm typing, so from memory I can't tell you exactly where to look specifically within the control.

If you save it within the method you'd normally save presets in ProTools, it's probably saved as a .tfx file. Logic has it's own proprietary format, as each DAW will. Just note where you save the preset using the preset manager in POD Farm and copy that over where you need it.

Logic saves 3rd party presets as .aupreset files.

Is it just a matter of saving the .tfx files created in PTs in the preset folder used by Logic?

I'm confused.

Woodman, in between the input and output metering, you'll see the area where the patch name appears. To the left of that is a small button that has a disk image on it. Click that and do your open and save functions. I've moved standalone patches into my protools rig all the time opening and saving them this way. This is different that saving say a plugin as a preset. In protools this would create a .tfx file. Saving it within the POD Farm plug in using it's own preset manager would create it as an .l6t file.

Aha! Now I get it. Many thanks!