I understand the operating system is new and I wont get into a debate over reasons to upgrade or not to upgrade. Just get the software/drivers working. You are a huge company with lots of money and resources, step up to the plate. People who have new computers shipped with Snow Leopard are just out of luck or have to downgrade and spend more money? Pay people to provide support for your products, SPEND the money to find a solution. Snow Leopard was known to be in development for over a year. If Apple wouldn't work with you guys to make sure everything would be working then shame on them, but if it was Line6 that wouldn't spend the resources to make sure this was a smooth transition then shame on Line6. Either way, us consumers are at left in the doldrums by two huge corporations. Quelle surprise! Anyway…

I have the following working and thought I share in hopes that the information might help somewhere down the Line.

My iMac:

  Model Name: iMac

  Model Identifier: iMac7,1

  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

  Number Of Processors: 1

  Total Number Of Cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 4 MB

  Memory: 3 GB

  Bus Speed: 800 MHz

  Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03

  SMC Version (system): 1.21f4

System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)

64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No

Garageband 5.1

Line 6 Monkey - v1.31

Line 6 Driver 4.2.4

Line6 Edit will give the following error and then crash:

/Applications/Line6/Line\ 6\ Edit.app/Contents/MacOS/Line\ 6\ Edit ; exit;

Installing AE Handlers

Set temp dir: /var/folders/7s/7sghjgkFFpuWlo9nOVhBJ++++TI/-Tmp-/Line 6 Edit_temp

Running from /Applications/Line6 in embedded mode on Mac OS X (Mac OS X)

L6HW device 'PODxt Live' (#0, ID=0x00004650) connected

L6HW device 'PODxt Live Variax Interface' (#1, ID=0x00004650) connected

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: cmn.l6java.utils.L6EmbeddedUtils.nativeHideSplash()V

at cmn.l6java.utils.L6EmbeddedUtils.nativeHideSplash(Native Method)

at cmn.l6java.utils.L6EmbeddedUtils.HideLauncherSplash(L6EmbeddedUtils.java:39)

at line6editbase.app.L6EditorApp.Start(L6EditorApp.java:459)

at line6editbase.app.L6EditorApp.access$200(L6EditorApp.java:42)

at line6editbase.app.L6EditorApp$L6ELauncherBootstrap.OnLaunch(L6EditorApp.java:310)

at cmn.l6java.app.L6App.Launch(L6App.java:194)

App failed to start (caught exception while launching).

Failed to launch app!

logout

Or something like this:

This is most likely a Java 1.6 problem. In the following post on the apple forums it says:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10061804&#10061804

Snow Leopard only ships with Java 1.6, so any applications built with Java must include support for 1.6 or the application will fail.

So I have to manually edit effects, which sucks but ah well. I can still use my PODxt Live in Garageband for now so I am ok, and being a casual player I don't mind. Thankfully I didn't purchase any additional software from Line6 or I would be a tad frustrated at the current situation.

I'm sure Line6 isn't the only company in this current situation, most software/hardware companies are currently riding on the Snow Leopard Crash Fail Train Express. Let's just hope Apple and all the software/hardware vendors can work together to find a solution and find one FAST. With that being said I still firmly stand by what I said previously:

Pay people to provide support for your products, SPEND the money to find a solution and find it promptly. Don't just come out and say ' We don't support bleeding edge' it's a new FINAL RELEASE Operating System, it's not a BETA OS. If this goes on for months and months it will only show how much Line6 really cares about it's consumers.

Regards,

Keith