Guitar Rig 3 - just for 'guitar sounds'? Nope!

DES

Hello everyone! It's been a while since I've posted on the forum - actually quite a long time... Been on a musical walk-about so to speak...but enough of that.

Not sure how many of you string-slingers, ambient guitarists, etc. use software for processing your instruments, but I decided that instead of having a floor full of boxes and cables to trip over, I would put as much as possible in a computer (or 2..) and see what I can do.

I ended up picking up Native Instruments Guitar Rig and have really been having a good time with it. Sure, it could use better delays and 'verbs...but it still has a lot of processing capability. Yea, it can sound like a whole bunch of differnt guitar amps...but it is capable of doing so much more.

I was playing around with some of the Modifiers it has - lfo's in particular - and decided to modulate their Pro-53 filter module...and proceeded to work on a suitable input 'sound' so that you could hear the filter action and in the end, sound like a synth pad.

The patch ended up being called Ambient Stick Pad (A.S.P.)and there are actually a couple variations of it. You can hear what it sounds like at my MySpace page - www.myspace.com/desneed . The song Stellar C is a live recording of me playing my Chapman Stick into an early version of A.S.P. No overdubbing at all. This version didn't have the balance controls between the clean, unprocessed signal and the pad sound. My later versions did. Also note - YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE A GUITAR OR BASS (OR STICK) TO USE THIS PATCH...run anything into it.

In any case, if anyone is interested in the bank of A.S.P. and it's variations, let me know. Is there a place to upload patches here?

Dave

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject:

back Dave.

Sounds pretty good to me, you can zip up the patch and attach it to your post.

I wouldn't mind having a play with it.

Cheers

Andy

DES · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject:

I'll get the bank cleaned up and post it tomorrow or this weekend. In the meantime I do have it posted at Native Instruments in the Guitar Rig User patch area, under Special F/X. I know I've tweaked it a bit since then - but basically the same.

Dave

DES · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:16 am Post subject:

Ok, attached is the GR 3 bank. There are 5 actual patches in it - mostly variations of the original Ambient Wash patch. I think this will work with Guitar Rig 2 as well though I have not tested it.

Watch your volume levels! The original patch is self generating - it uses a lot of gain in the front end to amplify noise as well as the instrument signals. The noise is what helps fill in the 'gaps' so to speak.

Don't be afraid to add other modules like the Octave box or micro-synth emulators - you can have a blast with these. These patches can be a bit taxing on slower computers but I feel the results are well worth it....

Legal stuff - (I don't think this is really necessary, but what the heck) You are free to use this patch in any music you create, public or private, for sale or not. All I ask in reaturn is that if you use it, let me hear the music you did with it and credit me with the patch development.

Have fun!

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Guitar Rig 3 Ambient Pad bank with variations.

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BobTheDog · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:36 am Post subject:

Thanks for this, will have a play today.

Andy

ambiencellist · Joined: May 12, 2009 Posts: 51 Location: Ireland

cool music on myspage DES

.. wish I had GR3 so I could see this patch

could you do a jpg? I might be able to try something in other software

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:08 am Post subject:

Dave, these are pretty useful patches.

Thanks very much.

DES · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:09 am Post subject:

You are more then welcome!

I think they can be used for so many things besides guitar/bass - and you don't have to run them by themselves. Put them as an Aux return in a mixing system so that mutliple instruments can be processed for example.

I've been working with a looper routing and these looking to have a self generating type of wash. Pretty interesting results to be sure...

I'm really looking forward to GR 4 coming out. I sure hope they put a better pitch shifter in it. Polyphonic preferably. That would open up so much more.