Guitar Rig 3 - wah pedal not recording...

Doesn't the GR manual describe how to do all this?

From memory, the issue is that you are recording onto an audio track with GR on it, and twiddling the pedal sends MIDI info, which obviously can't be recorded onto an audio track (because it's MIDI). And the effects of the pedal won't be printed into the audio, because you ar printing the guitar sound before it's processed with GR, so it's just the dry sound.

If you want to print GR, you can use it on an input channel, rather than on the destination recording track. This uses GR pre-tape, and thus the audio from GR is recorded, not the dry guitar signal (you could always record that as well, to give you options).

Lastly, you could probably also record-enable a MIDI track and record the MIDI data the pedal sends during the performance, and play it back to GR to replicate your pedal moves...

But I'm sure the manual talks about all this...

Hi greenfeld69

did you ever hear from anybody. i'm in the same situation, the NI documentation is cryptic at best regarding recording the midi settings.

Guitar Rig uses track automation to record WAH and any other controller. You need to make sure you have GR MFX plugin (so it uses MIDI) then when you record the guitar set the track automation settings to Write and it will all work.

Trying to record a midi track will just make you go mad and shout at your mac !

Ian

Thanks for the reply. I can basically record the automation using the GR as a plug in on an audio track as long as I have the GR panel open during recording. I can't really tell the difference between the FX and MFX in this configuration. They both seem to behave about the same. Do you know if there is a way to explicitly set the presets, say at the beginning of the song, start with preset/sound 2 and then later switch to preset/sound 5? If I rely on the foot switches (prev/next) and things aren't initialized correctly, what I hear back is not at all what I played.

I am having the exact same problem - The GR3 pedal does not function successfully as control surface for me. Even when I've set the automation parameters to write, latch or touch nothing happens. Grrrrrrrrrr.... I moved to a Mac to escape these kind of technical set backs!!!! if anyone knows anything, please help!!

Had the same problem, but it works for me if you have set the automation to 'latch' and have the plug-in open while you record. With both these things sorted, it it recorded the automation data (pitch pedal, in my case) with no problems.

HTH?

Sorry, forgot to say this is Logic 7.2.3, not 8.

Message was edited by: Boomstation

ok,
here is the way that I could do it, even though it is not very straight forward, it works. Mind you, I'm not in front of logic, so I will speak from memory and you should get the idea.

Basically,

Create an instrument track (midi) and have the input as Guitar rig and the output set so a Bus (e.g Bus 1)

Create an audio track where you have your guitar input (dry signal)

on the instrument track set the side chain to the track number where you have the dry guitar being recorded.

now create another audio track and set the input to the same bus that you set as output for the midi instrument.

Now it should all work, you control data is recorded on your midi track, Dry guitar on track 1 (AUdio), and wet guitar on track 2 (Audio)

hope this helps
David