New audio interface from NI, especially for the guitarist.
GUITAR RIG SESSION delivers powerhouse tone at a down to earth price. The versatile GUITAR RIG 3 XE software coupled with the portable yet robust SESSION I/O audio interface is a potent combination of components – specially designed to let you easily record and process your guitar, bass and vocals.
It may be small, but the USB-powered GUITAR RIG SESSION I/O packs big, studio-quality sound, thanks to crystal-clear 24-bit/192 kHz converters. Built with a tough aluminum chassis, this go-anywhere box is built to last.
The SESSION I/O features a superb phantom-powered mic preamp, Hi-Z Instrument and Line inputs, plus level-controlled Main and Headphone outputs – giving you maximum flexibility in virtually any recording situation.
Comprehensive software package with GUITAR RIG 3 XE, Steinberg Cubase® Le 4, KORE PLAYER and the KORE SOUNDPACK "POP DRUMS
Nice little package! In stores worldwide: June, 1st
List price: $249 / 229 €
Mac OS X 10.4 / 10.5, G4 1.4 GHz oder Intel® Core™ Duo 1.66 GHz, 512 MB RAM
PC:Pentium III oder Athlon XP 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM
USB 2.0 interface, DVD drive
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
New Guitar Rig XE
native Instruments announced a new version Of Guitar Rig, avaialable for a June 1 ship date.
Guitar Rig 3XE
This powerful and inspirational software is the direct route to your perfect custom tone. Equipped with the best amps and effects from the award-winning GUITAR RIG 3 software, GUITAR RIG 3 XE puts a world of studio-quality guitar and bass sounds at your fingertips.
GUITAR RIG 3 XE offers 5 amazing guitar and bass amps as well as 21 extraordinary effects, taken from the award-winning GUITAR RIG 3 and based on acclaimed Dynamic Tube Response Technology® for true studio quality. The new “Matched Cabinet” module provides perfectly harmonized speaker configurations per amp, providing instant tried-and-true classic tones. 12 matched cabinets.
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Guitar Rig 3XE
This powerful and inspirational software is the direct route to your perfect custom tone. Equipped with the best amps and effects from the award-winning GUITAR RIG 3 software, GUITAR RIG 3 XE puts a world of studio-quality guitar and bass sounds at your fingertips.
GUITAR RIG 3 XE offers 5 amazing guitar and bass amps as well as 21 extraordinary effects, taken from the award-winning GUITAR RIG 3 and based on acclaimed Dynamic Tube Response Technology® for true studio quality. The new “Matched Cabinet” module provides perfectly harmonized speaker configurations per amp, providing instant tried-and-true classic tones. 12 matched cabinets.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Midi guitar Sax.
I have been shopping for a software instrument for Sax.
I downloaded the demo Saxlab which sounds good and responses pretty well to the Axon. Still need to tweak it a little. I also want to be able to switch sounds via velocity. When I pick hard the "roar" or "growl" sounds would trigger.
I am also looking at Yellowtools'Candy but there is no downloadable demo.
Brian
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I downloaded the demo Saxlab which sounds good and responses pretty well to the Axon. Still need to tweak it a little. I also want to be able to switch sounds via velocity. When I pick hard the "roar" or "growl" sounds would trigger.
I am also looking at Yellowtools'Candy but there is no downloadable demo.
Brian
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Logic's Mainstage
Mainstage is part of Logic Pro. It is an independent application for live use.
Within Mainstage you can set up presets made up of audio and software sounds for use with Midi guitar. You can just use a regular guitar also - you get the audio presets from Logic Guitar amp or use one the guitar amp sims like GuitarRig 3, Revalver, Amplitube.... Midi Guitar gives you full use of the program and sounds.
More amd more guitarist are getting brever and using laptops on gigs. I think MainStage is an easy solution.
Brian
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http://www.guitarhelper.net/Software.html
Within Mainstage you can set up presets made up of audio and software sounds for use with Midi guitar. You can just use a regular guitar also - you get the audio presets from Logic Guitar amp or use one the guitar amp sims like GuitarRig 3, Revalver, Amplitube.... Midi Guitar gives you full use of the program and sounds.
More amd more guitarist are getting brever and using laptops on gigs. I think MainStage is an easy solution.
Brian
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http://www.guitarhelper.net/Software.html
Play guitar
Carlos Santana has become a god - again - to a new generation hooked on Guitar Hero, but the notion of youngsters banging away at plastic slabs in time with his most famous solos isn't that meaningful to him.
''I probably wouldn't be very good at it,'' he says in a recent phone interview. ''I'd say if you're going to spend that much time and energy, get yourself a real guitar. If you're going to make the jump - jump! I'm not into virtual anything, if it's not the real thing, man.''
Brian
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''I probably wouldn't be very good at it,'' he says in a recent phone interview. ''I'd say if you're going to spend that much time and energy, get yourself a real guitar. If you're going to make the jump - jump! I'm not into virtual anything, if it's not the real thing, man.''
Brian
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Friday, April 18, 2008
I need to do more....
Ok, I haven't been doing the blog at all. I am going to try to post a lot more.
Teaching guitar lessons is my main priority at the current time. This takes up most of my time at night after I get home-- doing transcriptions, chord charts, handouts etc.... I use Sibelius for notation. I can input scales exercises or any exercises for guitar with my Axon AX-50 and my Brian Moore MC1p.13.
Here are some recent comments I have come across or contributed to recently about Sibelius and midi guitar.
Person is trying use a Gr-1 for midi input. This unit is old and a few generation back for Midi conversion.
I recommend the Axon Ax-50
I have both the Gi-20 and the Axon Ax-50. No sounds in either of them.
I use Sibelius to input stuff for lessons with the Axon. It is quicker than the Gi-20 especially on the bottom two strings. Harder to setup but worth the effort and the added features. It has a software editor so, no editing on board like the Gi-20. If you are doing simple projects and not worried about playing fast runs , etc the Gi-20 should work -- easier to work with and setup. When I am doing serious stuff I use the Axon.
Gi-20 $395 vs Axon $495 or so...
Set the units to how you play- sensitivities, etc.
Also in G7, there is a midi input filtering under "Notes/Note input options"
that has to be adjusted to get clean notation I have my velocities set to 40
--I'll still need a sound card or recording interface, or should/could I use the Kontakt Player that comes w/G7?
The Gi-20 and the Axon AX-50 are USB so they do not have to go through an audio interface. You can use the audio output from the computer and use the Kontakt player in G7. I would use Kontakt for playback.
**If I was going to give a student an audio cd of an exercise, I would actually record my guitar audio(with an audio interface) into Logic or GarageBand to match the notation. The playback on G7 might be a little stiff. Bends, slides... do not playback well.
--Another person uses "Sibelius all day every day to input notation and tab, using midi guitar is the most time consuming way of doing. Sibelius' midi guitar input is useless, it doesn't recognize what string you're playing (easily implemented) doesn't recognize string bends and arpeggios come out as a whole mess of tied notes.
I use a cheap USB midi keyboard to input pitches and step input the rhythms, it's pretty quick and needs no clean up."
**Sibelius will recognize what string you are on. Set the midi guitar channels under: "Play/Playback and Input devices". Also set tab range for tab notation.
Arpeggios can be solved with the plugin: "Remove overlapping" notes under Notes and Rest.
I just had a thought-- maybe I will set up my video camera and try to demostrate Sibelius transcribing from the guitar live.
I do not know when I can get to it and post it on www.guitarhelper.net
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Teaching guitar lessons is my main priority at the current time. This takes up most of my time at night after I get home-- doing transcriptions, chord charts, handouts etc.... I use Sibelius for notation. I can input scales exercises or any exercises for guitar with my Axon AX-50 and my Brian Moore MC1p.13.
Here are some recent comments I have come across or contributed to recently about Sibelius and midi guitar.
Person is trying use a Gr-1 for midi input. This unit is old and a few generation back for Midi conversion.
I recommend the Axon Ax-50
I have both the Gi-20 and the Axon Ax-50. No sounds in either of them.
I use Sibelius to input stuff for lessons with the Axon. It is quicker than the Gi-20 especially on the bottom two strings. Harder to setup but worth the effort and the added features. It has a software editor so, no editing on board like the Gi-20. If you are doing simple projects and not worried about playing fast runs , etc the Gi-20 should work -- easier to work with and setup. When I am doing serious stuff I use the Axon.
Gi-20 $395 vs Axon $495 or so...
Set the units to how you play- sensitivities, etc.
Also in G7, there is a midi input filtering under "Notes/Note input options"
that has to be adjusted to get clean notation I have my velocities set to 40
--I'll still need a sound card or recording interface, or should/could I use the Kontakt Player that comes w/G7?
The Gi-20 and the Axon AX-50 are USB so they do not have to go through an audio interface. You can use the audio output from the computer and use the Kontakt player in G7. I would use Kontakt for playback.
**If I was going to give a student an audio cd of an exercise, I would actually record my guitar audio(with an audio interface) into Logic or GarageBand to match the notation. The playback on G7 might be a little stiff. Bends, slides... do not playback well.
--Another person uses "Sibelius all day every day to input notation and tab, using midi guitar is the most time consuming way of doing. Sibelius' midi guitar input is useless, it doesn't recognize what string you're playing (easily implemented) doesn't recognize string bends and arpeggios come out as a whole mess of tied notes.
I use a cheap USB midi keyboard to input pitches and step input the rhythms, it's pretty quick and needs no clean up."
**Sibelius will recognize what string you are on. Set the midi guitar channels under: "Play/Playback and Input devices". Also set tab range for tab notation.
Arpeggios can be solved with the plugin: "Remove overlapping" notes under Notes and Rest.
I just had a thought-- maybe I will set up my video camera and try to demostrate Sibelius transcribing from the guitar live.
I do not know when I can get to it and post it on www.guitarhelper.net
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