GT Pro effects monitoring

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Hello - Please help! Can I monitor my guitar and effects while recording with GTPro? I swear i used to with my old soundcard, but having no luck with my new Delta 66 Omni studio. The GT Pro manual only seems to address adding effects to already-recorded tracks. I've got the M Audio Delta control panel "H/W outs" coming from the Delta monitor mixer. My monitors are connected to card with S/PDIF. (btw, that Delta manual is confusing as hell to me). If I can't hear while i play, I might have to go back to the Zoom! THANKS
 
What exactly are you trying to do?

- Monitor your guitar and external effects unit your sound card and hear what you play?

or

- Record a dry, direct guitar track into your sound card and use some sort of software effects that you can hear while you are playing?

If it is option "B" then you need to look at using Input Monitorring - look at the help file - it will take you through step by step. I don't have GT Pro, only Sonar so don't know if it's the same.

If it is option "A" then give more info on what is plugged into what.

:) Q.
 
Trying to add effects to the new guitar part i'm recording, and hear it simultaneously, rather than hear it "dry" while playing and have to wait till I play the recording back. My guitar is plugged into "input 1" of the Omni/Delta. btw, I've been playing with the (old) Sonar demo and can't seem to do it there either. Do you need more info? thanks
 
Qwerty said:
...you need to look at using Input Monitorring - look at the help file - it will take you through step by step. I don't have GT Pro, only Sonar so don't know if it's the same.

:) Q.
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There's a blocky workaround to this - note what your GT Player effects and settings are, then using a VST wrapper, load each of the pedals into the FX bin of an audio track (making sure the sequence/order/settings are the same). You can't use GT Player Pro natively in Sonar AFAIK, but you can use all of the Stomp'N'FX that constitute the sound (again, with a wrapper)
 
:confused:

That involves Sonar, right? And Input Monitoring? Which will eliminate the need for GT Pro?
 
moskus said:
:confused:

That involves Sonar, right? And Input Monitoring? Which will eliminate the need for GT Pro?
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Yes, involving Sonar, using input monitoring. GT Pro uses stomp'n'fx to generate it's "sound" (or any other VST effects, but those are what come bundled with it) - it's just a VST host really. You cant use the host itself, but what you can do is use the FX, and to replicate the sound you would get with any of the presets in GT, you would insert each effect individually into the FX bin of an audio channel in the same order using the same settings. A pain to accomplish when your preset uses a lot of effects (such as the Van halen "brown sound" preset), but it CAN be done :)
 
Of course it's possible to do with Sonar, it's just not possible with GT Pro. :rolleyes:


OH! You're thinking of the wrong GT Pro. Theodore talks about this GT Pro (I think). Why would he post in the Cakewalk forum? ;)
 
moskus said:
Of course it's possible to do with Sonar, it's just not possible with GT Pro. :rolleyes:


OH! You're thinking of the wrong GT Pro. Theodore talks about this GT Pro (I think). Why would he post in the Cakewalk forum? ;)
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Well, THAT explains it :] I was thinking of the D*SOUND vst GT Player Pro. Now I feel silly :)
 
ChorazaiM said:
Well, THAT explains it :] I was thinking of the D*SOUND vst GT Player Pro. Now I feel silly :)
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No problem, you just confused me.

I kept thinking: Why would a person using GT Pro have Sonar too? :confused: :D
 
moskus said:
I kept thinking: Why would a person using GT Pro have Sonar too? :confused: :D
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Because they bought Sonar, didn't like it and traded up to GT Pro?

It could happen
 
OK - so i can't do it with Guitar Tracks Pro. Does Sonar 3 support input monitoring, without all kinds of fancy "workarounds". This is only a hobby! ...and i really need simplicity. btw - who prefers to record "dry"?? Isn't it much more gratifying to hear it "effect-ed" up front? Thanks all, ted
 
When I want an effect on guitar, say distortion, I'll use use a pedal for the effect so I can hear it as I play. I have tried using Revalver to dirty up a clean guitar sound, and it just sounds like shit.

For guitar, it's important to hear it as you want it to sound because that effects how you play, but for everything else, recording dry is fine for me
 
Sonar supports Input Monitoring, and I think Home Studio does too. BUT you need a good soundcard with low latency drivers. A SB Live or Audigy won't do it...

So yes, use outboard effects if you have them. It's just better... ;)
 
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