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Reaper is amazing Suggest you download it first and get a hang of it first. BFD has the best: samples and very powerful mixing  built in. Really high quality effects, MIC placement. It comes at a premium but after researching for a bit  it's in my opinion the best natural sounding kit. However for certain applications Stylus RMX is a must have.  I own them both.

Thiking about buying BFD and setting it up with Reaper -- having used neither before.  Just wondering if anyone out there has this pairing in action.  Happy with it?

Thanks,

Matthew

Gianni:

Your tune was tuned sharp   or maybe you tune to something other than 440 ?

so I could not be bothered and therefore I just did this quick and dirty which shows the stock VG-99 Sitar&Pad patch. I used a Stylus RMX tabla groove , dropped a Dmi7 - Cma7 repeated chord sequence using a Rhodes patch on my Roland XV2020, and put down a quick simplistic melody using the Sitar&Pad patch.

http://www.monteirosfusion.com/music/snippets/indianish.mp3

I hope this is useful. If there are any other specific sounds I could maybe try to put up something different but just as simplistic

later

I didn't get too far with my experiments

I suppose you would want some of the acoustic sounds i.e. sounds comparable to what you could get out of the variax ?

I could play them with the nylon SA or with the LGX-SA, guess it doesn't matter.

BTW, Godin has a new guitar , a three voice Multiac steel string which they are calling the Spectrum, looks very interesting, especially if one already has a modeller such as the VG-99.

If you are content with just hearing riffs with various different sounds then maybe I can commit to it, but I'm not going to be able to deliver a solo that I am content with without working one up and that will take more time than I have i.e. for my other music endeavors

Hey Charles, why don't you post your version of this test with some VG-99 sounds?

here is the track without the solo, 120 bpm.

http://homepage.mac.com/giannicassone/test/Line%2062.mp3

Gianni,

certainly in the mix it sound great and that is of course what counts. I would agree that it provides for a very viable acoustic sound and that is just that one patch, so if the other patches are anything like it, a very interesting asset to your production.

BTW, the tune is a quite nice jazzy/bluesy thing. I guess you recorded in Logic. If you don't mind letting me know what the bpm is although I could probably figure it out with Reaper, I wanted to have some fun with it i.e. I wanted to blend in a scratch improv and see if could make it mix well.
It would make for a fun exercise.

thanks

-Charles

I posted a quick little recording here:

http://homepage.mac.com/giannicassone/test/Line%206.mp3

I tried playing 2 rhythmic parts (L / R) and one little solo with different ways to attack the strings. All with the same guitar sound (Gibson CW). For the solo, I tried to emulate a clean kind of dobro sound just with the EQ.

BTW I listened to the latest takamine with what they call cool pre-amp tube. It sounds great too but a little pricey for what it is. The line 6 is very easy to play, has a great sound, unfortunately it lacks a synth guitar connector!

Comparing to the VG-88, the sounds are much better. You get presence and dynamics which are difficult to emulate with the roland. Overall it's very good prime materials to create your own acoustic sounds.

Ciao,

Gianni

hi gianni,

that sounds cool. The VG-99 has acoustic guitar sound modeling so I'll be curious as to how they compare, and yes everything  needs EQ, point of fact, even in the studios mic-ed guitars are definitely EQ-ed. On a tangent , I have off late been using the Line 6 GearBox VST from within Reaper. It sounds pretty good at least for the hot Santana/ DiMeola -ish tones I have been playing with. They have massively reduced their prices. There is also a new kid in town called Revalver by Peavy which just made its debut at NAMM i.e. at least under Peavey dominion, the specs sound pretty impressive and its also priced very well.

I think that I have mentioned that one  thing that I found to really warm up the sound of an acoustic guitar like my Ovation or even my Godin Multiac SA was to go thru a Studio Projects VTB1 ie.. a tube pre-amp.

Eager to listen to your clips.

Hi Charles, I have bought finally the Line 6 guitar instead of the Martin. I thought that for one 3rd of the price it was worth taking a look at this technology. Well, it is worth the money, and the acoustic sounds you can get from this sleek guitar are very good prime materials for recording despite all I have read about that. It is obvious to me that any guitar will need some EQ and this one is no exception, but the first few tests I have done are quite conclusive considering that I spent about 10 minutes for EQ. I will post some tests recording later.