Frantic_Rock
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Ibby rg2570 with Roland gk-3 into Roland gr-30. Aaah if only I had more time.....
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My new weapon of choice
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treyhaislip
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Re: My new weapon of choice
Sweet! What do you think of the Roland setup? I've looked into them but the price always turned me off...
Sweet! What do you think of the Roland setup? I've looked into them but the price always turned me off...
Frantic_Rock
FragleRockologist
Re: My new weapon of choice
i think that if you play a style of music that can use synth sounds, it's great. I like to Jam solos in my room, by myself, to backing tracks. So it's kind of a nice way to add diversity to the sounds you're getting. The best part for me is: being able to apply all the guitar "Licks" and "Vocabulary" to other instruments. I would say only the percussive type instruments sounds the best. Wind instruments are a whole different ball game, and they will definitely sound artificial. Unless it's one with a very soft attack on it, for example: Indian Flute (which i love on the GR). Organs, pianos, violins - all that stuff is pretty good. It's just not quite as good as a piano synth, because of tracking issues and latency. Some patches track way better than others, and latency is better on some than others.
Oh by the way: i have used the GK-3 in the past to go into my Yamaha S90!! that thing is ridiculous. Too bad it weighs about a million pounds and is a full range keyboard.
Some patches have auto-tune on them, so even if your guitar is slightly off, it negates that. And it also negates the overall intonation issues of the guitar. Not every patch has that though.
i think that if you play a style of music that can use synth sounds, it's great. I like to Jam solos in my room, by myself, to backing tracks. So it's kind of a nice way to add diversity to the sounds you're getting. The best part for me is: being able to apply all the guitar "Licks" and "Vocabulary" to other instruments. I would say only the percussive type instruments sounds the best. Wind instruments are a whole different ball game, and they will definitely sound artificial. Unless it's one with a very soft attack on it, for example: Indian Flute (which i love on the GR). Organs, pianos, violins - all that stuff is pretty good. It's just not quite as good as a piano synth, because of tracking issues and latency. Some patches track way better than others, and latency is better on some than others.
Oh by the way: i have used the GK-3 in the past to go into my Yamaha S90!! that thing is ridiculous. Too bad it weighs about a million pounds and is a full range keyboard.
Some patches have auto-tune on them, so even if your guitar is slightly off, it negates that. And it also negates the overall intonation issues of the guitar. Not every patch has that though.
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Matt42
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Re: My new weapon of choice
Nice set up! I had a GR-33 (I think it was the 33, might have been the 30, I can't remember exactly) for a while. I pawned it for some money for a festival when I was young, dumb and super broke. I wish I had it back now, just because it was a really fun toy. I don't have any projects going I could actually see myself using it with, but I had a lot of fun with it. I played it at an open jam night at a local bar one time. That was cool, the sound guy/host stepped out for a cig before I used it, and came back in while I was using the Tenor Sax patch and commented that he thought someone had actually brought a sax in from outside (he didn't know I had a synth). That being said, he was drunk.
I loved the organ, percussion and wind patches the best. The string patches always sounded really off to me. Especially Violin, way too thin and bright sounding. When I had it, a couple of friends and I were in the midst of forming a band and I was trying to work it in as much as possible. We covered a couple of Cake songs with me using the trumpet patch, and we covered a couple of Tull songs with me playing a flute patch. Unfortunately, the drummer friend moved away suddenly and nothing ever cam of the project.
Another fun thing to do was build horn section patches, i.e. playing a single "A" note would give you a Tenor Sax playing an "A" a trumpet playing a "D" and a trombone playing an "E," and use it to pretend to be the horn section in a funk band. It really pushed me as a guitarist to come up with cool ways of using it. I found that for the best results, I had to alter my playing style a bit depending on the patch. Using lots of partial chords and very specific picking to play an organ sound, for example.
If you want to see a good example of someone making the most out of one of these things in a setting you'd never expect, check out the banjo player in this video, he's playing a homemade electric banjo with a strat body and a Stealth Banjo neck on the organ patch. The best organ stuff is around 3:30
Nice set up! I had a GR-33 (I think it was the 33, might have been the 30, I can't remember exactly) for a while. I pawned it for some money for a festival when I was young, dumb and super broke. I wish I had it back now, just because it was a really fun toy. I don't have any projects going I could actually see myself using it with, but I had a lot of fun with it. I played it at an open jam night at a local bar one time. That was cool, the sound guy/host stepped out for a cig before I used it, and came back in while I was using the Tenor Sax patch and commented that he thought someone had actually brought a sax in from outside (he didn't know I had a synth). That being said, he was drunk.
I loved the organ, percussion and wind patches the best. The string patches always sounded really off to me. Especially Violin, way too thin and bright sounding. When I had it, a couple of friends and I were in the midst of forming a band and I was trying to work it in as much as possible. We covered a couple of Cake songs with me using the trumpet patch, and we covered a couple of Tull songs with me playing a flute patch. Unfortunately, the drummer friend moved away suddenly and nothing ever cam of the project.
Another fun thing to do was build horn section patches, i.e. playing a single "A" note would give you a Tenor Sax playing an "A" a trumpet playing a "D" and a trombone playing an "E," and use it to pretend to be the horn section in a funk band. It really pushed me as a guitarist to come up with cool ways of using it. I found that for the best results, I had to alter my playing style a bit depending on the patch. Using lots of partial chords and very specific picking to play an organ sound, for example.
If you want to see a good example of someone making the most out of one of these things in a setting you'd never expect, check out the banjo player in this video, he's playing a homemade electric banjo with a strat body and a Stealth Banjo neck on the organ patch. The best organ stuff is around 3:30
Johtosotku
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Re: My new weapon of choice
Very nice! I've been looking at mij ibbys for a while now and I'd love one with a setup similar to yours.
Very nice! I've been looking at mij ibbys for a while now and I'd love one with a setup similar to yours.
