Guitar Solo

Hello All,

This is the very first time that I am playing the guitar... see below link:

Considering it's the first time, I felt it wasn't too bad. I even managed to swap from my acoustic guitar to the bass guitar and vice versa in just a blink of the eye, quite amazing if I may say so ;-)

Right... I was playing this Sunday afternoon with my modular synthesizer when I discovered the above sound. This is not sampled, it's created with a few modules, the main module being Rings from Mutable Instruments.

Edit: I only couldn't get rid of that clipping/ticking kind of sound, I tried to use a LP filter but that took away too much sound of the guitar, making it a non-guitar...

Thank you very much for listening and kind regards, Garfield.

EDITED Nov 22nd 2020, 21:27

Rings is really a pretty amazing module @GarfieldModular, I think people'll be using it for some time to come. Interesting textures here, I've stumbled on this mode myself once or twice and it's surprisingly realistic sounding, especially with the right rhythms as you've got here. I wonder really how far you can take it...

Re: the clipping, I've seen this before too, you normally don't need an envelope+VCA with Rings, but perhaps in this case it would help.

Hi Troux,

Yes, Rings is indeed an amazing module, I just got it recently and still discovering it.

Regarding that clipping issue, good point, will try it with EG+VCA to see if that solves the problem.

Thank you very much and kind regards, Garfield.

That reminds me of a track I published this year. Rings is definitely a great module.
I used Batumi (sine) for cv in the Quad Vca. This brought some shades.

Hi Sweelinck,

Oh that's beautifully done! So subtle!

Thank you very much for sharing this and indeed, Rings does it for me, though you need to get to know & understand it. Kind regards, Garfield.

Nice Garfield!

Love Rings and was messing about with it last night

I also play guitar and once I move into new studio will look into how to mix and add to modular performances and recording tracks.

Hi Sacguy71,

Thank you! :-)

Ha, ha, yes your "zero, zero, zero" track, I listened at it at your post of this track already, nice one! So it looks like you like Plaits too ;-)

Kind regards, Garfield.

Hi Garfield,

Yeah I have most of the Mutable Instruments collection except for Clouds and Elements and Stages. Good stuff.

nice tones, I almost picked up rings (likely will in my next case), but I have a resonator in the parasites firmware for clouds that has some nice qualities to it. I decided to get a dedicated reverb, going for the bat-verb, Desmodus Versio.

Hi Mog00,

Thank you! Yes, having a dedicated reverb is nice indeed. Currently I am using an external reverb (Source Audio - Ventris Dual Reverb; lovely pedal), but I am also considering a reverb module, not sure yet which one though.

Kind regards, Garfield.

That reminds me of a track I published this year. Rings is definitely a great module.
I used Batumi (sine) for cv in the Quad Vca. This brought some shades.

-- Sweelinck

very nice track, love the evocative sounds you have there

I dread to think what would happen if i picked a guitar up, probably a bar of 'Smoke on the Water' !