Logic Pro Guitar Presets Download
Thibaut Silverman
Basically I've tried all the usual input monitoring fixes I've read about but I've got a problem I can't seen to find on any forum. Basically I can hear the sound of certain logic guitar sounds and not others. For example in the Distorted guitar sounds I can hear Classic Drive but not Citric Acid (I can just hear a clean sound). My Audio Interface is a PreSonus Audiobox USB 96 and I've tried with the settings on the Universal Controller but there doesn't seem to be a clear fix on any option. If you have any advice it would be much appreciated!!
My first step to troubleshoot this would be to make sure your monitoring is set up correctly. First, in Logic, choose Logic Pro X > Preferences > Audio :: General, and disable "software monitoring". Now make sure you can NOT hear your guitar at all. If you can hear a clean guitar tone that means you're monitoring your guitar through your audio interface. You need to turn that monitoring off.
Once you've successfully set up your audio interface so there's no audio interface monitoring at all, you can monitor in Logic: turn software monitoring back on and see if you can hear your guitar presets as expected?
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I did all the above. And input 2 HiZ on, Mix is turned all the way to DAW (which prevents me from hearing anything through the monitors - but when I put headphones on I hear the dry guitar, faintly, and without headphones, when I turn the mix knob to 12 o'clock I hear my dry guitar). I've attached a screenshot of the DAW interface if that helps.
Done. The signal is coming through. No sound of my guitar coming through the monitors though. I can hear the "Drummer" track clearly. When I plug in the headphones into the Steinberg I hear a faint dry guitar, but that's it, though I hear the drum track. Also, with phones on the I can't in any way adjust the volume of the drum track.
I am new to the board. I have been trying to find posts on how to get the guitar tone of AC/DC within logic pro x as far as amp, cabinet, mic/cab, and the amp eq settings. I'm sure there are resources out there that help with AC/DC and other popular artists using what is available in Logic Pro X. Your help would be greatly appreciated!
That's to manually change presets using a MIDI controller. If you'd like for changes to occur on their own, you could insert Program Change events on the Guitar Rig track (using Event List, for example). For that to work, you'll need to know which CC commands work with which Guitar Rig preset.
First of all, for your intended setup to work, you'll need to do a few adjustments. I'd suggest to use a Software Instrument track with External Instrument plugin (Utility > External Instrument) inserted into Instrument slot (select the audio interface input where your plug in your live guitar, as "Input" for External Instrument plugin). The Guitar Rig goes into the "Audio FX" slot on the same Software Instrument track.
Now, since it's a software instrument track, you can insert MIDI automation onto it (and that's your "in the box" preset changes for Guitar Rig plugin). However, you might have to dig deeper into Guitar Rig manual to extract information about which Program Change commands work for which preset. Alternatively, you might need to find out how to assign Program Change command numbers to custom presets.
the screen shot above shows a song in audio track 1, and below that, Guitar Rig is inserted in audio track 2, routed out to (arbitrarily assigned!) Bus 10 - this track receives the live signal from my guitar via my interface. Below that I have inserted another Guitar Rig on an Instrument Track 3, which receives the signal from Bus 10 via the Sidechain (or rather it is supposed to, I cant get a signal coming through right at the moment!!).
I like the brown amp and the Vox imitation. Vox is the lone holdout in amp sims and Logic does a nice job of emulating the Vox sound. I have a simple process for this where I make sure my input signal is at the right level before putting any amp presets on the channel. Then, if the channel preset turns out to be at a hot level with the plugins, I insert a Gain plug at the end of the signal chain to get it right for mixing. This way I leave all the plugins that make up the sound at their settings, and adjust the level at the end. Its just been a simple way for me to use presets.
Thanks Steve. I agree with you that putting a Gain plugin first somehow affects all the tonal qualities and goodness of the preset. Many times a guitar preset in LPX will have several plugins that make up that sound, and often times the final output level of these plugins might leave you with a signal level thats too hot for mixing purposes, even if you recorded with the proper level.
Although I dont find all of LPXs guitar amp sims to be spot on for every amp, there are some very useable presets that are my go to staring points for a Vox amp vibe or some Fender amp sims. The Sweet Boutique and Indie Scorcher are a few of my favorites in this category.
Midi learn on the archetype plugin window does not work, neither manually entered mappings. Luckily Logic is proposing another midi learn mechanism and I can activate any pedal for example but I did not find how to change presets.
The second option is to use a Software Instrument track, add the NDSP plugin as the software instrument, and now you can map MIDI messages directly to the plugin. To get your guitar into the plugin you have to use the software instrument side chain audio input. Then you use three tracks for your guitar, one that has the dry guitar from QC, the software instrument track that records the MIDI commands that control the plugin, and usually another audio track whose input is a bus output of the software instrument track to record the wet/processed guitar. I use a track folder that configures these three tracks to make setup easier.
Amp Designer follows a somewhat semi-modular approach in terms of emulating a guitar setup. There is not an integrated tuner. There is not an integrated cabinet impulse response loader. There is no integrated effects beyond what the emulated amp classically would provide. Logic does provide a tuner (on every channel in smart controls!) and pedals, but no explicit cabinet IR loader (though you can use Space Designer for this).
I have found limiter to be useful on highly dynamic sources that generally need to be reigned in. Vocals and bass guitar are common culprits. I naturally rather grab other options, especially Compressor in the Vintage Opto mode, but Limiter does a sufficient job when more rigid limiting is necessary.
There are presets for the feedback and crossfeed values, which is useful. The channels can be linked. The delay time has a deviation parameter that lets you scale the parameter by a percentage. Deviation is great for adding some groove to the delayed sound.
Logic also allows you to add your own custom presets in its library for quick access in future projects. Say you spent hours perfecting a vocal chain with different plugins and sends, and you want to save it to use it in other songs. In that case:
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The Scriptor plug-in found in Logic Pro allows users to load and use factory or user-created scripts to process or generate MIDI data in real time and through playback. Think of this particular plugin as an opportunity to look under the hood of Logic Pro and add in MIDI-facing facets that a user may want but not have found elsewhere in the program using JavaScript. In the case of the guitar strummer preset, the software allows for harmonic information to be inputted as a block chord. Once the information is put into Logic, the scripter applies a series of filters to quantize the information and then offers control over multiple parameters to augment the information. And all of this is possible without any coding or scripting expertise. In the case of the Guitar Strummer, the Scripter simply runs the preset java scripts telling the program to change how the MIDI information is heard. The most easily audible alteration that is applied to the MIDI information through the use of this preset mimics the displacement of the start of the individual notes that are played as if individual strings were being struck discretely and sequentially by a strumming tool like a pick or a hand. The Guitar Strummer Preset does this through a complex set of controls that allow for a user to manage parameters like the direction that strings are being strummed, the range of velocities that strings will be strummed, and the amount of time dividing the striking of each string.
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