[RWP] Strings and stuff, was Re: My metronome question

Tue Jun 25 11:34:40 EDT 2013

Don't remind your sister in law about the guitar, she'll have to face 
the painful fact that she'll never touch it again.

On 6/25/2013 11:30 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> I played a Moog sustainer guitar a few months ago at the Moog showroom
> in Ashville. It's like having twelve built-in E-bows, as you have two
> magnetic fields for each string, with piezos that listen to the
> individual strings, and intelligently figures out which one you're
> fretting at the time to determine which string should be sustained, or
> you can just have them all sustain at once. Tons of harmonic
> possibilities. This is combined with a set of hum bucking pick-ups. You
> can blend the piezo and magnetic output as well.
> It even does electro-magnetic envelope curves, starting with the initial
> attack of the string. Really fun to play, and, of course, not cheap. I
> think the baby one started at a bit over $2000, and they went as high as
> 6 or 7 grand.
> I'm also not much of a guitarist, though I am practicing more now that I
> have a good electric to play with, in this case, an Epiphone ES-339 pro,
> and a Schecter diamond series guitar that my sister-in-law left here
> almost 8 years ago, and hasn't wanted back yet.
>
> On 6/25/2013 10:08 AM, Indigo wrote:
>> 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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