by djnarrative | 3 Apr, 2011 | Reckorder Tutorials
Guitar rig is a quality effects rig for your guitar. I was pretty amazed by the sound when i heard my housemate rocking out with some of the presets, so here's a few notes i wrote a long the way. Guitar Rig Setup Drop a version of guitar rig into the effects rack of an audio channel. Create a midi channel and send the output to the audio channel. This should then come up with guitar rig meaning you can control. If it doesnt you may have not dropped it on the bottom section (i did this first time round) Guitar connections Guitar is plugged into d i box and which goes into soundcard. You can also plug into amp which is miced up into scard. Both seem to sound similar, so i'll stick with direct route as I'm pleased with sound, and its easy to use. Control with fcb 1010 Open the options in guitar rig, and controller and then midi learn. Again make sure the prefs are set correct. Note that the rig control view shows up in live view e.g 5 & 6 for up and down, and pedal auto assigns. This seems easiest to switch patches, and if you need to change the parameters you can do in the browser screen. Assigning controls is as easy as midi learn. The fcb and ableton is setup like this. Bank 1 of fcb1010 controls guitar rig. Guitar rig is on the audio input channel, but there is a midi channel controlling it. Bank 2 controls the 2 live loopers in ableton. Main button, undo and clear are...
