doc-phil
I recently been using gearbox software as a stand-alone to record guitar parts in mackie tracktion and reaper, but I want to start using guitar rig 3 as a VST plug-in. In both programs I am able to load up guitar rig as a VST and the guitar rig screen appears, but then thats it; when I strum my guitar there is no sound and the input levels on guitar rig remain at zero. This happens in both mackie tracktion and reaper. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong???
Thanks
Neps
is the track record armed? another thing to remember is that using it as a VST plugin is going to give you even more latency than usual. If you are keen to use it as a VST in Traction or Reaper, rather record the guitar clean, and then add the pugin afterwards.
doc-phil
yes the tracks were armed... I can record the guitars clean, but then how do i add guitar rig as a plug-in after that? I've never had latency issues, i play my guitar through a toneport gx, do u think i would create latency by using GR as a VST?
Neps
mmm... armed.. well that does prove to be interesting. And reaper and traction does see it as a valid VST plugin. Im a bit out of my depth here with Guitar Rig, I dont own it. But if it does show up as a plugin it should run even whilst recording.. i know this is true in protools, but others im not too sure, so people please point out if im wrong: when you record the signal into your DAW, and you have guitar rig as a plugin, you'll still only record the signal dry, with no FX. So you still afterwards have a clean signal.
but as for no signal, it might be a routing issue, or an input on the interface that isnt active.
doc-phil
ok thanks for the advice, but this thing is playing games with me, now when i open the VST as a always do, there is sound and the input signal is there, but it applies the plugin to all tracks. So say for example i want to play something clean, then distorted, i cant ??? tracktion applies the plugin to all tracks and all recordings.. is that normal? before getting guitar rig i would record my guitar parts with drums in one of the tracks. i can do that now cos tracktion filters the drums through guitar rig so i just get hectic white noise.
AlanRatcliffe
Make sure that you are adding the VST to the right track - if it's working on everything, you have it added to the main bus. Maybe when it wasn't doing anything earlier, you had it on the wrong track.
Also some software recorders you need to enable a track's input monitoring (called input echo by some) to hear the effect while recording - it does increase latency, but if you have your DAW set up with a low enough latency it's not a problem.
