Just bought an r3 and I have intentions of using it to synthesize my guitar to sound like a Roland guitar synth, etc. When I try to plug it in, it seems to only be useable as a vocoder trigger or a clean, un-processed guitar sound. How can I get it to be synthesized to create wild sounds?
Any help would be awesome!
Thanks.
Want to use the R3 like a guitar Synth!
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Want to use the R3 like a guitar Synth!
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thehighesttree
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Pick a patch you don't like and hold SHIFT and hit the button that's labeled "Init Program" and go through with this to delete it (it'll be called "InitProg" if you did it right). Now use the wheel to the right to cycle to this patch's "OSC1" parameter. You can set the waveform to "AudioIn" form here, but you're not done yet.
You'll need to have the "gate" open so that a sound comes though...this just means you have to have a note held down. A quick way to get around this is to light the 2 arpeggiator buttons by the tempo knob and hit any key (the note doesn't matter cause there's no internal tone playing)...it'll keep playing that key without you having to hold it down. Now you can plug your guitar in, make sure the proper input is selected and level adjusted, and you should be able to play though it.
Is it like a guitar synth? I've never heard a guitar synth, but it probably isn't: you can't play synth notes from your guitar per se, but what you can do is run your guitar through the synth's filters, gating (letting sound pass through in a rhythmic way), EFFECTS, and other synth stuff like the LFO and BPM-sync . Think of it as a totally customizable stompbox. So while it won't play synth notes based on your guitar playing, your guitar basically takes the place of the synth's internal tone generator and you get access to everything that can morph that sound.
You'll need to have the "gate" open so that a sound comes though...this just means you have to have a note held down. A quick way to get around this is to light the 2 arpeggiator buttons by the tempo knob and hit any key (the note doesn't matter cause there's no internal tone playing)...it'll keep playing that key without you having to hold it down. Now you can plug your guitar in, make sure the proper input is selected and level adjusted, and you should be able to play though it.
Is it like a guitar synth? I've never heard a guitar synth, but it probably isn't: you can't play synth notes from your guitar per se, but what you can do is run your guitar through the synth's filters, gating (letting sound pass through in a rhythmic way), EFFECTS, and other synth stuff like the LFO and BPM-sync . Think of it as a totally customizable stompbox. So while it won't play synth notes based on your guitar playing, your guitar basically takes the place of the synth's internal tone generator and you get access to everything that can morph that sound.
Got a clean guitar to go through....
The sound comes through and I adjusted many parameters, including tube amp, speaker cab, distortion, etc, and only can get some real bad chainsaw distortions that sound like a cheap distortion pedal... any ideas on how to make the guitar sound synthetic?
I tried changing values on all the sections, except vocoder.
I tried changing values on all the sections, except vocoder.
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