Hi,
These days I am playing some In flames stuff and I would like to play songs along. The problem is that this guys (like a lot of metal bands) doesn't play in a standard tunning. I have come across the idea of using a real time transposer plugin of something to let me play with standar tunning but outputing audio to my monitors with a transposed sound. Is this possible? I use reaper and Amplitube.
Cheers.
I think this would be hard without a midi guitar although I imagine it is possible and an interesting learning test in one's DAW. But if it is just audio (not midi) then the alternate tuning would have to be symmetric with standard, meaning all strings are shifted the same amount of steps as it would, I think, be impossible to just shift the lower stings, i.e. a drop tuning, by a different number of steps.
I'll have to play around in my DAW, Ableton, just for fun and see if there is plugin that can transpose the input audio. I believe there is, but I've not don it except on audio tracks already recorded.
For a drop tuning and on the fly in the DAW transposition, I think the only way that would be possible is with a midi guitar. Plus, in order to get a drop tuning where the 6th string is down more steps than the others, I think you'd have to send each string on a separate midi channel. Although, I believe this would be overkill if one has a processor like the GR-55 as it can transpose strings automatically before it is sent to the computer.
I know I could probably do it in one of two ways in Ableton, or at least I have two ideas as a start point. I'll try it after I finish my next Creativity thread post and post an update. I'm not sure how my Ableton process will convert to Reaper and Amplitude, but I'll look into it cause it sounds challenging and an interesting thing to learn.
I imagine if I can figure out how Ableton can do it I could set it up to turn off and on, i.e. an on the fly tuning change, with a midi pedal and signal. That would be kinda cool.
Ah, a quick way, in the interim, is a Pitch Shifting or Octaver VST plugin, like an Ocatver pedal with the pitch shifted by how ever many steps while setting the original pitch vol to zero. I've done this with an octave pedal but not in a DAW.
Here are two pitch shifting plugins that might work. One is free and one is not. But you could test it out first.
http://www.quikquak.com/Prod_Pitchwheel.html
http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=2
You might search the net for Pitch shifting plugin for your DAW. Also, you might look for an Octaver pedal add on for Amplitude like your running an Octaver pedal in front of a real amp.
If you want to drop the tuning of all six strings equally, I'd recommend a Digitech Drop pedal. I've had better results with that than a plugin since it's designed to do what you're describing, rather than a general purpose transposition plugin.
I can't remember which plug-in could do that, maybe try meldaproduction free bundle.
I have to say though they really degrade audio quality even when oversampled.
Two plugins come to my mind : Celemony Melodyne and Antares AutoTune. they don't come cheap though !!!
Grts
Nico
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