Open source mind-controlled robotic arm. Musicians should be all over this! Mind control OSC or MIDI CC. I’m looking.

With a nod and a tilt to…

Finally getting around to giving my Christmas present a workout! I got a TEC Breath and Bite controller 2. Here I try it out for atmospherics on this almost ambient piece.

This is really fun. I can already control two things from my guitar by where I pick and by the MIDI volume knob. The breath and bite controller (hereafter just “breath controller”) adds four more very expressive controls, bite, breath, tilt, and nod. The first 45 seconds is setting up the loop, then the synth comes in, Dmitry Sches’s excellent Thorn, controlled by the guitar and the breath controller.

Two new things today, a new song to cheer you up from rreplay, “Happy PIL,” and a new Digital Guitarist video in my series of reviews of KVR Developer Challenge plugins. 

New from rreplay:  Beats for days. The title is the song!

 

Pro FET by Ignite Amps

Distortion modeling of a hardware pedal made by Ignite.

ProFET, Ignite Amp’s entry in the 2018 KVR Developer Challenge, gets a six-minute Digital Guitarist workout. It was the first place winner in the contest.

• Drop it in front of a clean guitar amp for instant metal tones.
• Professional GUI.
• Easy on the CPU.
• Nice sounding distortion made for a particular genre’s tone.

Within that limited frame, ProFET provides nice tone shaping with a 4-band EQ and some nuance on the transients with the “shape” switch.

There are a ton of different free and paid distortions, each with its own personality. I’ll do some more vids on them probably. Try out the demos and freebies and pick the one that suits your ears best. This is a good one if it fits your style.

Follow rreplay on Facebook / Subscribe to the Digital Guitarist Youtube channel

See the rest of the the 2018 KVR Developer Challenge videos:

The Digital Guitarist Youtube Channel is rolling along.  I’m in the process of reviewing the KVR Dev Challenge entries right now.

just an experiment with a synth setting I liked on UHE’s BazilleCM vst synth that I got by subscribing to computer music magazine. reminded me of the proto-synth-punk-actually-kind-of-beyond-genre duo Suicide’s famous Ghost Rider, but not; hence the silly spoonerism for the title.