Re: Anyone using NI Guitar Rig 2?

[midifriedchicken@comcast.net]

I have it. Not a huge fan. Its ok for some stuff, but it munches cpu like crazy. I just got a Pod LiveXT which I like very, very much. On headphones it sounds ok, but through my Mackie 450's, it sounds positively HUGE.

 

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From: mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>

> Wait... didn't you say yesterday that you'd never buy
> a product from NI ever again? ;)
>
> I took a listen to Guitar Rig 2 and while I found the
> tone to be good (but very NI) and the ability to set
> up ADSR envelops to control effects very nice... it
> didn't do it for me. The "feel" wasn't there. I
> imagine what I'm missing is related to latency. I
> seem OK with it in the synth world but when it comes
> to guitar it bothers me. Seems like it would be
> perfect to record a nice clean tone into and be able
> to mess with it during the mix process though.
>
> So what about that NI sound, eh? Personally I love it
> but it's so there in every product they make. When I
> c hecked out Massive the first thing I thought was,
> "Woah, sounds like Reaktor."
>
> When I figured I'd have to have something to control
> it anyway it just didn't make sense from a cost/weight
> stance. Also factor in that it's pretty CPU hungry.
> When the dust settled it seemed that my Vox
> Tonelab/Lexicon MPX1 rig was clearly the way to go.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --- Per Boysen wrote:
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I had a chance to try out Guitar Rig 2 and found an
> > annoying problem.
> > If you assign a MIDI expression pedal to some
> > parameter (like wha-
> > wha, volume or delay feedback) some rig patches
> > create a crackling
> > noise when the MIDI CC data is streaming. Have other
> > GR2 user noticed
> > this?
>
> >
>
>
>
>
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