Midi Pedal Steel Guitar
Hi my Reaper friends,After nearly a year of developement, I've finaly got my Midi Pedal Steel Guitar that I programed in Kontakt ready to go. Here's a coupleof YouTube links you can check out.Check out my website and let me know what you think.Also I would like to draw your attention to a couple of great scripted toolbars created by Lokasenna, he did a magnificent job on these.One is called 'CC Ryder' and the other 'Pedal Steel'. CC Ryder is a toolbar all midi users should be interested in, you can Save/Restoreup to 20 CC-lane variations. Also, credit goes to 'hopi', who created all the graphics for the 2 toolbars. I must say, I couldn't livewithout these toolbars.This is what the GUI looks like. GREAT!I understand that at the moment this is a sound engine intended for recorded and appropriately tweaked Midi.If you want to use it for life plying, you of course need a controller that is able to create an appropriate Midi stream.I do have a Seaboard Rise 49 that sends Midi MPE, allowing for gliding each single pressed note individually and hence might be suitable.
This 'fretless keyboard' playing technique is rather easy to be handled by a usually trained 'standard' keyboarder. Avoiding to learn how to use those steel and pedals.-Michael. Nice to see it posted Tod. It's been a long road, eh?I think I should add in fairness to potential customers that while you may get some use from this via 'live play', it really 'does its thang' via midi programming.Don't get me wrong plz. Nspro crack free download 6 25.
I think you should buy a copy cuz there really is AFAIK nothing else that even comes close.At the same time do take a good look at all the tutorials on Tod's website.and of course listen to his examples that let you hear what can be achieved!Congratulations Tod! Tod,I in fact don't understand what the videos on your site are supposed to tell me. I seem to see a mechanical steel guitar, but the link seems to say I am going to hear the virtual instrument. Did you recreate the performance by Midi programming and replaced the sound of the original video?-MichaelRight Michael, I reproduced both the background music and the steel. On Crazy Arms, originally recorded by David Hartley, I took the video just to watch where he placed the steel bar and which strings he used. When I got done and played the video along with my tracks, I couldn't believe how well it worked with the video.
Good idea Bob.it is really so complex that a few of these would be great helps just for users to be able to load an example to study.I wonder if a MIDI Xml would be the way to goThanks guys,I've thought about this a lot, and I have included 3 demos that include the backing audio files along with the midifiles. That way they can load them into any DAW.
I also included Reaper RPP project files for Reaper users.Although there are some standard steel guitar intros, and maybe even some licks, It's hard to find much on the net.I'm relying a lot on experiences and my memory of those experiences to come up with things from the past. I've playedwith a couple of decent steel guitar players and also recorded a few good ones, but that was back in the 70s and 80s.I am going to do a little more searching though, to see what I can come up with. I think I've got some old Buddy Emmonsrecordings stashed away somewhere, I'll have to do a little more digging around to see if I can find them. Right Michael, I reproduced both the background music and the steel. On Crazy Arms, originally recorded by David Hartley, I took the video just to watch where he placed the steel bar and which strings he used. When I got done and played the video along with my tracks, I couldn't believe how well it worked with the video.Ah, that had me confused as well, Tod. I.thought.
that was what was presented, but wasn't sure. You might want to clarify that bluntly that it's you playing your instrument that is the audio behind his hands.But I'll tell you what: that uncertainty if it was him or you is a testament to what you have accomplished. Tod,Yes, make it well known that the musicin the video is the sound of your program.I should have mentioned this to youbefore you released the product.However, it goes to show that your productis excellent and people are not able todetermine if that is the sound of the livesteel guitar, or the sound of yourprogram in the video. Awesome!!!Please make it well known that the sound inthe video is your programmed steel part.This is an amazing product and I knowthat a lot of time and care went into this.Keep up the great work.I look forward to the future projects also.
Steel Pedal Guitar Midi Files
Man that would be awesome if you could make up some ready made midi phrases.I posted this in the Biab forum and Herb Hartley posted this (any relation to David?)Thanks for that MuseBob, a lot of truth said there.In regards to difficulty, there are the 5 keyswitches and several CC-Controllers, but that's true of many VSTisoftwares. I'll admit it does have a fair learning curve, but the complexity it has is really do to thecomplexity of the Pedal Steel guitar itself. My goal was to create a virtual steel guitar that could do almostanything a real steel guitar can do, and also sound just as good.In regards to making little midi phrases that can be used in any key, that would be difficult. Although it canbe done, the way the velocities are used in my steel, it would require more then just moving the notes up anddown, the velocities would have to be adjusted to accommodate them.I'm still working on this, coming up with phrases, but it will require some time. This is the best Pedal Steel I've seen/heard.With the phrases/riffs it would make it easy as you can modify them to get a custom sound, they just preview thru Kontakt via the Media Explorer.I purchased Bolder Sounds Fiddle some time back and have not used it yet as I need to sit down and learn it all where as if it had a phrase library I would be using it regularly.If you have a few midi with it now I will download it now and see what I can come up with in RapidComposer.
My Dollar is 69c at the momentWith the Virtual Guitars I have I can use RapidComposer Strum Pattern creator that allows for keyswitches.That might be a challenge for Lokasenna a Pedal Steel Pattern generator GUI. This is the best Pedal Steel I've seen/heard.With the phrases/riffs it would make it easy as you can modify them to get a custom sound, they just preview thru Kontakt via the Media Explorer.I purchased Bolder Sounds Fiddle some time back and have not used it yet as I need to sit down and learn it all where as if it had a phrase library I would be using it regularly.If you have a few midi with it now I will download it now and see what I can come up with in RapidComposer. My Dollar is 69c at the momentWith the Virtual Guitars I have I can use RapidComposer Strum Pattern creator that allows for keyswitches.That might be a challenge for Lokasenna a Pedal Steel Pattern generator GUI.Hi MusoBob, I do understand the 'Strum Pattern', it appears best suited for an acoustic guitar, complete with up or down stroke, as wellas mute along with the amplitude for each strum. Unfortunately that won't work for the Steel Guitar. The Steel Guitar is almost, nearlyalways, a lead instrument. So it requires the same imagination and finesse that it takes to play electric lead guitar, or any other instrument.You might not have seen these tutorials Bob, they show how it all works.This is part-1:This is part-2. Good luck on trying to script or automate what you see Tod do in the tutorials.
Gonna have to find some new code for 'skill' and 'love'.but that is IS what makes this puppy so special.when I first saw it ran away in total horror. But then got his toolbars made and it started to become almost reasonable.
The two scripts save you needing to build those toolbars and they work even better than the TB's did, IMO.Nevertheless, it's the ear and skill with the cc's that really pull it out.I am barely able to do even a little, but I'm not even on the same planet as a musician that Tod is.I would suggest to anyone, before you try to get fancy, you do a little learning test with just a few notes and see how to use the script tools and various cc's. I just meant I use the Strum Pattern maker for the guitar vsts so you don't have to manually create it up the strum/pickin patterns.But I'm just trying it now with RapidComposer as it has melody generators and it can transform the existing pedal steel midi into other phrases and generators.When I first opened a RPP and played it I saw the flac and thought that sounds so real it must be an audio demo but I muted the audio track and sure enough it was the just the midi!
Awesome!I will try the toolbar that Loka created.I made up a script the snap the midi to chords or scale exempting the keyswitches. I just meant I use the Strum Pattern maker for the guitar vsts so you don't have to manually create it up the strum/pickin patterns.But I'm just trying it now with RapidComposer as it has melody generators and it can transform the existing pedal steel midi into other phrases and generators.When I first opened a RPP and played it I saw the flac and thought that sounds so real it must be an audio demo but I muted the audio track and sure enough it was the just the midi! Awesome!I will try the toolbar that Loka created.I made up a script the snap the midi to chords or scale exempting the keyswitches.So MusoBob, do you have my Pedal Steel Guitar library?
Midi Pedal Steel Guitar Forum
The Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar ($ 299.99) is the world's first pedal steel library to date that is fully playable in realtime. Instead of relying on pre-recorded licks and loops, the Wavelore Pedal Steel Guitar uses single-note samples with advanced KSP scripting to put all ten bendable strings of E9th tuning right under your fingers! Programmed with 8-way round-robin samples per note, this amazing instrument is rounded out with multiple amp simulations, full neck position control, two types of release samples, and a host of tweakable/assignable controls for complete flexibility.
Note: Requires the Full Version (2 or Higher) of Native Instruments' Kontakt software sampler.Video Demos and Screenshots:Instrument Features:Ten strings of E9th-tuned pedal steel guitar, totalling 1.9 Gigabytes of 24-bit samples for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 or above.Allows independent pitch bending of all strings in nearly endless combinations, all on a single Kontakt MIDI channel.8-Way Round-Robin sampling for natural sounding repetitions of notes and phrases.Gives access to 24 neck positions via assignable MIDI CC#. New in Version 2.5: Position control via keyswitch or 'Auto-Position Mode'.Seperately assignable controls for vibrato speed and depth.New in Version 2.5: User-definable/switchable amp tremolo.New in Version 2.5: User-definable per-string pitch-wheel ranges - even define differing ranges for the upward and downward directions!