Cool!
I should have a hex setup by next week…. I might have more ideas after that.
Thank you for everything you are doing.
If you can run two instances (see my hack above) of MG3 HEX then all this can be achieved with string filter and pitch filter. I have started doing this and more (modulation, string transposing).
Ideally 6 chains in one MG3 would work much more seamlessly and will come on stream sometime.
But it can be done now with a tiny bit of effort — it’s well worth to, works great and has amazing potential!
We are Beta testers, we have the chance to influence the final development of the software.
I know I can run two or more instances to achieve all kind of stuff but if I can avoid all that by hopefully improving the beta version that would be even better.
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Agree 100%.
But until this happens, we can still achieve what we want and experiment away. Also by highlighting the potential I hope this gives JamO further encouragement to develop such exciting features further.
I can now play my Ample plugins and, articulations aside (key switching is not so flexible), they now play just like a normal guitar! … and lots more of course.
have you tried any of the ample guitars in baritone tuning?
I don’t think that this is possible. I can not manage to get lower than E2 with the Ample guitars, there are probably no samples in the library.
Ample Guitars allow only tuning down 2 steps, so down to D only on bottom E string. I am not aware of a specific Ample Baritone Guitar.
Currently, MG3 only detects down to E2 but you could transpose the MIDI E string.
The two steps down are only working as pitch bend. Transposing the E string down will not create any sound below E2.
Within Ample, I modify the Tuning Peg(s) to change the tuning of the guitar, then Ample responds and plays a midi D2 or D#2 just fine?
thanks for the info, guys.
a meaty and succulent baritone acoustic is my holy grail.
i have a hardware solution but it requires a baritone electric to feed it. i’d much rather use my regular guitar.
@David_Marshall
Hahaha…true…I did never touch those peg heads. That gives a “semi baritone”.
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Here is another very good reason to have open strings muted.
I’m playing piano, think like a piano player, I hit a G cord with the sustain pedal on, then while the sustain pedal is still on I want to hit another G cord one octave up.
There is no way I can let go of the lower G cord and move up one octave without triggering (pull off) some open strings… and with the sustain pedal on it will ring out pretty bad.
As I play in altered tunings (Mainly DADGAD and Open G) more than standard these days I found these very useful and easy to set up.
I see (but don’t have) that Ample have some 7 and 8 string “Metal” guitars that may have lower string tunings but not sure how useful these would be (i.e. clean guitar sound)? May be worth checking out.
A dream would be a proper Ample samples acoustic Baritone for me.
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There is a library for Kontakt that gives excellent results on Baritone guitars with MG3Hex: “Desolated Guitars” by “e-instrument”.
It is not acoustic but the sound is really great!
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Jam O;
I am glad you released this. Unfortunately I also purchased the Fishman Triple Play System which only seems to work on slow and if I play very cleanly. I have “played at 11” for decades and it is difficult to slow and be more deliberate. Because the Fishman system is very closed, and they state in their FAQ that their system is the best in response to a question involving Midi Guitar, I doubt if I will get anything useful from them if I ask for help. I will ask anyway.
I have been searching on any way to use their hexaphonic pickup with a system other than their own and have come up with nothing. Anyone have any clues?
Boscovec
I’ll always advise to try the standard MG3 jack version with MPE instruments. You can always get the hex add-on later, if you get the hardware support and if you really need it.
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I just did a “quick and dirty” record of the Kontakt “Picked Nylon Session Guitarist” instrument, transposed down to baritone tuning.
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awesome, thank you!
the rubbery pluckiness of the nylon strings really comes through.
this approach may be more effective than an artisanally sampled boutique baritone.
you once said something like ‘you want a banjo, but not too much banjo’. this has the presence, i wouldn’t want to hear ‘classical gas’ on it, but it will fit nicely into the type of projects i work on.
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Lets have an on/off on the String muting module so you can turn it on and off mid playing.
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Can you please tell me why there is such a difference in CPU load on two identical scenarios?
In the first case, all instruments are inserted in MG3:
In the second case, the same instruments are outside MG3 and the CPU load is almost 20% higher!
So, in the latter, I have dropouts, and not in the first.
The problem, in the first case, is that I don’t have access to a usable audio input, other than the six channels dedicated to hex mode, to attack an audio plugin, like “Archetype Cory Wong” in my example.
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