Comments on: @AES: Native’s Guitar Rig 2 Strikes Back with Control Stompbox and Loops http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/10/09/aes-natives-guitar-rig-2-strikes-back-with-control-stompbox-and-loops/ The latest gear, software, and techniques for electronic music production and performance Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Guest http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/10/09/aes-natives-guitar-rig-2-strikes-back-with-control-stompbox-and-loops/#comment-1659 Guest Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:39:36 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/10/09/aes-natives-guitar-rig-2-strikes-back-with-control-stompbox-and-loops/#comment-1659 This looks incredibly good, and I've always been one to run keyboards, drum machines, and circuit-bent toys through guitar stompboxes. I do have a handful of questions that I'd love to get answered before I plop down cash for this though....can anyone help me out? 1) how well will this work with things that don't sound great through guitar amps? will a synth just need some different EQ settings, or will it sound bad no matter what? (mind you...i'm highly interested just for Rhodes) 2) Is it possible to have more than one of each effect in the rack? In other words, can I have several instances of the step sequencer in the same setup? 3) The looper looks fantastic. Looks like you may be able to do some Kid Beyond/Live stuff with it without writing so many macros. Most exciting, I think, is the ability to do loops of different lengths in real time...which begs the question- do you have to set loop lengths ahead of time, or can you simply punch in/out whenever you want with the pedal? 4) If the loops can sync to metronome/clock of DAW, I assume they're doing time-stretching...how does it sound on various types of loops (drums/bass/leads) Thanks for any help! Ben This looks incredibly good, and I’ve always been one to run keyboards, drum machines, and circuit-bent toys through guitar stompboxes. I do have a handful of questions that I’d love to get answered before I plop down cash for this though….can anyone help me out?

1) how well will this work with things that don’t sound great through guitar amps? will a synth just need some different EQ settings, or will it sound bad no matter what? (mind you…i’m highly interested just for Rhodes)

2) Is it possible to have more than one of each effect in the rack? In other words, can I have several instances of the step sequencer in the same setup?

3) The looper looks fantastic. Looks like you may be able to do some Kid Beyond/Live stuff with it without writing so many macros. Most exciting, I think, is the ability to do loops of different lengths in real time…which begs the question- do you have to set loop lengths ahead of time, or can you simply punch in/out whenever you want with the pedal?

4) If the loops can sync to metronome/clock of DAW, I assume they’re doing time-stretching…how does it sound on various types of loops (drums/bass/leads)

Thanks for any help!
Ben

]]> By: imago dei http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/10/09/aes-natives-guitar-rig-2-strikes-back-with-control-stompbox-and-loops/#comment-1658 imago dei Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:19:46 +0000 http://createdigitalmusic.com/2005/10/09/aes-natives-guitar-rig-2-strikes-back-with-control-stompbox-and-loops/#comment-1658 Answering Peter's question, I used Guitar Rig 1 with an electric violin for five months. I was using a very low end pick-up/violin (piezo pickup and Fender FM-V respectively) with an underpowered host machine (iBook G4 800). I really dug the sounds I was getting with a somewhat limited setup; ended up selling Guitar Rig to pay for a new mandolin. Obviously had to do some tweaking of presets (mainly EQ, as the piezo favored high frequencies) but liked Guitar Rig especially for the crazy delays/tape effects. Sent in a feature suggestion to NI that they make the RigKontrol use USB and am glad to see they took user comments to heart; that and the Loop Machine have me looking back to the computer + Guitar Rig solution when I go back to electric violining. Answering Peter’s question, I used Guitar Rig 1 with an electric violin for five months. I was using a very low end pick-up/violin (piezo pickup and Fender FM-V respectively) with an underpowered host machine (iBook G4 800). I really dug the sounds I was getting with a somewhat limited setup; ended up selling Guitar Rig to pay for a new mandolin. Obviously had to do some tweaking of presets (mainly EQ, as the piezo favored high frequencies) but liked Guitar Rig especially for the crazy delays/tape effects. Sent in a feature suggestion to NI that they make the RigKontrol use USB and am glad to see they took user comments to heart; that and the Loop Machine have me looking back to the computer + Guitar Rig solution when I go back to electric violining.

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