New Member / R3 Owner / Keyboard Player

[damiana]

Greetings..

I recently purchased an R3 after learning some synth parts for my bands songs on a Yamaha Motif, and deciding I would like something additional, as well as something lighter and easily moved.

I have pretty much zero training as a musician, but have played guitar, bass, drums and have sung since I was quite young (40 now).. I have played in various rock/progressive metal/melodic rock bands and due to the "scene" in my area becoming quite stale for rock, I have put together a band that fuses ambient with rock... We play stuff like hooverphonic, lighter garbage stuff, depeche mode, etc - all with a slight edge to it.

Anyway - the R3 is cool, I have a lot to learn since the whole concept of "synthesis" is not what I base my approach to playing on.. Its more about my ear.

We are working on a song - The Smiths - How Soon is Now, and as im sure most of you know the main riff for that song is pretty difficult to pull off the way Johnny Marr recorded it.

Due to this, I was wondering if there might be a way to pull it off with the R3 using delay/reverb..

If anyone has any thoughts towards what I'm trying to do I would certainly appreciate a push in the right direction..

damiana

[Re-Member]

If it is the intro guitar sound in the song, that's actually a tremolo effect. You can pull that off easily since there's a tremolo effect that you can time sync in the effects section. You could also use the mod sequencer to manipulate the amp of the sound.