[RWP] My metronome question

Tue Jun 25 10:08:00 EDT 2013

I can't easily get 10 strings, but don't care so much how many strings 
it has, 6 is enough.
What I'd really like is a virtual Chapman Stick; with just a touch 
sensing fretboard; no strings at all, and USB out transmitting note 
data, but haven't found  such an interface anywhere.
I'm no kind of real guitarist, but I love limited playing, finger 
picking with partial capos, alternative tunings, and drumming on 
strings, as if it was just another keyboard layout.
I have some large diameter timber bamboo.
I was thinking of slicing off the sides of the electric guitar body, 
opening up the center of what's left of the body, glueing half of a big 
section of bamboo onto the bottom as a resonator chamber
I can't remember who was the guitarist; Michael Brooks maybe; who built 
the Infinite Guitar, with a magnetic device that buzzed the strings to 
keep them sustaining endlessly; similar to a built in E-Bow.
I have a small but very powerful speaker driver that I could put in the 
bottom end down in the bamboo; just below the strings.
I could feed that speaker with the output of the amp and; I think, get 
an endless feedback going that would keep the strings sustaining forever.
Indi

On 6/24/2013 6:08 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> I want a Chapman Stick, but can't afford one, so I'm interested in what
> you end up doing. Those guys are awesome enough to own stick.com, so
> that in and of itself is just cool.
>
> On 6/24/2013 5:55 PM, Indigo wrote:
>> Patrick, after you told us about the piezo speakers in holiday cards,
>> I've been saving those, but this time I need about 12 of the same thing,
>> to mount a tiny distance below each of 6 strings; probably near the
>> bridge and about halfway along the string length.
>> I'm going to massacre a Korean V M I electric guitar to make a sort of
>> chapman stick thingy, so I can happily drum on its fret board
>> I'll probably saw off both sides of the body so it's a real stick guitar.
>> I expect the guitarist here are cringing in horror, but believe me this
>> one will be  no loss to the guitar world as a conventional guitar, and
>> could make a great Chapmanesque stick.
>> Either piezo electrics, or I could compare their cost to a single really
>> great humbucker pickup.
>> Anybody got one of those they'd sell me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Indi
>> On 6/24/2013 1:24 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>> Radio Shack used to cell piezos in little plastic enclosures meant to be
>>> used as small buzzer speakers. Take it out of the plastic and have fun.
>>> Maybe they still do.
>>> I have some piezos that are just exposed on one side with a plastic
>>> backing on the other side, with a thin cable leading to a 1/4th jack.
>>> Ultra-generic pick-ups with little clip mounts with screw holes/adhesive
>>> backing to attach the jack's housing to instruments.
>>>
>>> To keep this on topic, you should always play your metronome through a
>>> piezo transducer. Yeah. That. Don't use your mailbox as a vocal
>>> microphone, as fun as it may seem at the time.
>>>
>>> On 6/24/2013 1:15 PM, Indigo wrote:
>>>> Thanks, Patrick.
>>>> I've been mostly experimenting and learning recently, so haven't been
>>>> using metronome, but think I will soon.
>>>> Did you see my post asking you about piezo transducers to go under
>>>> guitar strings?
>>>> I don't mean commercial piezo pickups to place inside a guitar tone
>>>> hole
>>>> or under a bridge, hopefully a tiny not costly piezo transducer I can
>>>> afford to buy a dozen of, Radio Shack, online, whatever.
>>>> I'd like them to pick up the least drumming or touch of each string,
>>>> but
>>>> not pick up room sounds like a microphone.
>>>> Got any ideas?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Indi
>>>>
>>>> On 6/24/2013 12:35 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
>>>>> If you want the metronome to be turned on by default for a new project
>>>>> (metronome settings are saved in projects, not in Reaper's global
>>>>> settings,) open a new project, turn the metronome on, then go to
>>>>> file >
>>>>> project settings, or press alt+enter to get to the same dialogue. Now,
>>>>> press the "save as default project settings..." button. Now, when you
>>>>> open a new Reaper project, your metronome will already be active. If
>>>>> you
>>>>> change the metronome sound or volume, these settings will also be
>>>>> saved.
>>>>> For example, I changed the stock metronome sounds to those of the two
>>>>> square waves from the Casio VL-tone 1's drum section, just to be a bit
>>>>> different.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can, of course, make any other change you want to your new project
>>>>> before saving as default project settings. If, for example, you always
>>>>> want to start with four audio tracks and four midi tracks routed in
>>>>> specific ways, you can set that up first, then save that as your
>>>>> default
>>>>> loading template. Then those tracks will be there when you open a new
>>>>> project.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/24/2013 11:58 AM, Indigo wrote:
>>>>>> There is a toggle metronome in the ReaAccess shortcuts,.
>>>>>> It's something plus the letter M.
>>>>>> Press F12 to turn Learn Mode on and check out the ReaAccess
>>>>>> shortcuts.
>>>>>> Press F12 again to return to normal mode.
>>>>>> I just enable the metronome in options menu, haven't got it to
>>>>>> toggle on
>>>>>> and off when I want.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Indi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6/24/2013 9:15 AM, Stephan Merk wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> my question regarding the metronome was not answered till now, if
>>>>>>> I am
>>>>>>> right
>>>>>>> in this... ;)
>>>>>>> I asked if there is a chance to set the metronome on in general so
>>>>>>> that I
>>>>>>> not ever have to turn it on after I am starting Reaper...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Viele Grüße
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Stephan Merk, www.merkst.de
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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