it's past my bedtime (you can laugh. i'm ridiculous.)
but i think i can declare victory with this ad-hoc setup. it's ad-hoc,
mind you. but it should be functional.
i had to go up
to cubase 5. iirc, i didn't do that in the first place because it wasn't
playing nicely with my interface. i'll have to see if this version is
better. no dongle emulator running in the background. that's definitely
nice...
i also went up to guitar rig 5. i'm picky with tone. so, i'll call it an experiment for now.
i
was hoping i could use the soundcard in the laptop for playback, but
it's turned out to be useless. i had to get asio4all for cubase to even
recognize it, but it's not actually working. it's probably a minor fix,
but looking at the difference in specs is embarrassing to the hd chip.
i'm way better off just headphoning directly out of the pod, even if
it's a little awkward, cord-wise.
besides that, the
bare minimum (pod drivers, cubase, guitar rig, cool edit) installed
properly. and that's all i want running for now. i'll take more things
in as i need them (i do use izotope as an effect processor, and there's a
few secret plugins i won't mention), but this is meant to be a minimal
environment.
if i were to play this live, i'd need a
second usb to 1/8th inch out. that hdmi out isn't connecting to cubase.
then again, i'd need to move to sonar to route the signal from the usb
in, through guitar rig and back out again to the mixer, anyways.
it's not a worthwhile thought right now....
....and
the pod provides the option of a clean or wet send in the drivers (as
well as to turn the amp sim off and on). i knew that, but it's been a
while since i've used it...
Monday, April 14, 2014
it took a lot of wasted time waiting for things to copy around all over the place, but i've managed to get my medium old laptop back up (not the really old one that can barely hit google; this is about ten years old, and fully useable for just about anything). the hard drive has been causing me problems since last summer, but it turns out the black screen was actually the result of not activating windows (i forgot i had installed it)...
the drive isn't really to be trusted anymore, though, so i need to be working off a usb key. i wanted to work off an external drive, but windows 7 just flat wouldn't read it. works fine in xp. vista too, even. not 7. there's all kinds of dumb info online about the drive being "incompatible with windows 7", like it broke plug and play compatibility through usb or something. it's a glorified fucking thumb drive. it should read on everything.
but i suspect it's the same basic problem i spoke of earlier, with changes to the way the os reads drivers. i'm not privy to background info on 7 like i am on vista, but talk about arrogance. they get all kinds of complaints on this, and rather than fix it they make it worse.
unless, of course, somebody figured out you could sell more drives by forcing people to upgrade their hardware with their os...
i repeat: perfectly functioning drive on xp, vista. brick on 7. official reason: "incompatible". most likely technical reason: the 7 kernel considers it a "security threat". actual driver: hardware sales.
anyways, i wanted to back up to that drive, so i put vista back on and copied the shit over, and then put 7 back on. it will read fine in xp when my bios comes back. but in order to get it from my new laptop (also running 7) to the old one, i had to use my mp3 drive...
so, it now exists in five places. that's more than sufficiently safe.
anyways, the thumb key is more than enough space for one song at a time for a few weeks until things resolve themselves back to stability.
the thing is that i bought this laptop refurbished to use for school in the short run and turn into an effects rack long term. the hope was also to turn it into somewhat of a live out. i mean, it's hard to lull a tank of a pc out and about. the signal was supposed to dual out of the laptop and the pod into a stereo receiver and play through a set of celestions, which i had interpreted as a sort of modern, technology-friendly update to the classic marshall sound. i mean, trying to run this stuff through amps creates garbage. it has to be through clean signals...but getting as close to the original path as possible struck me as worthwhile.....
it's not quite to that point. well, i never finished the symphony i wanted to perform, anyways. but, it is going to end up with cubase, guitar rig and pod software - along with other guitar effects, which will turn it into a backup guitar studio.
i cannot hook it up to a firewire interface and consequently cannot connect it to the mixer or any of the things into the mixer. nor does it have a midi in/out. so, my options are limited...this is temporary....
....but it will get me back to work while i'm waiting.
there are cheap usb soundcards nowadays. it's not really necessary. but if that bios doesn't flash...
actually, something else i won't be able to do (i don't think) is drive the signal. i'll have to check. the question is if the usb sound card out on the pod takes a dry or wet signal in.
if it does, i have no real complaints regarding guitar tone. i'll just have to wait until the mixer comes back up to tweak it.
if not, i'll have to see how it sounds, but i'm not compromising my tone, either....
unfortunately, it makes sense to me to think that the usb out is just a signal from the unit - meaning it won't matter what i put in front of the thing, it won't pick it up.
hopefully, it surprises me, but it doesn't really make sense to me to think it can do that.
i use it largely for amp sims. i use guitar rig for post-processing. well, it's what each is made for. the problem with the amp sims is they need some fire to reverse that dead, digital sound. i guess if i was doing that corporate emo hair metal thing it would be fine, but i'm not; i find i need to drive it with a tube pre-amp to be useable, and i need to drive *that* with some boxes to get the most of it.
i didn't think that through.
i'll find out in a few hours.
i'm actually able to recreate fuzz-->tube-->amp fairly well with that setup, and without getting evicted.
the drive isn't really to be trusted anymore, though, so i need to be working off a usb key. i wanted to work off an external drive, but windows 7 just flat wouldn't read it. works fine in xp. vista too, even. not 7. there's all kinds of dumb info online about the drive being "incompatible with windows 7", like it broke plug and play compatibility through usb or something. it's a glorified fucking thumb drive. it should read on everything.
but i suspect it's the same basic problem i spoke of earlier, with changes to the way the os reads drivers. i'm not privy to background info on 7 like i am on vista, but talk about arrogance. they get all kinds of complaints on this, and rather than fix it they make it worse.
unless, of course, somebody figured out you could sell more drives by forcing people to upgrade their hardware with their os...
i repeat: perfectly functioning drive on xp, vista. brick on 7. official reason: "incompatible". most likely technical reason: the 7 kernel considers it a "security threat". actual driver: hardware sales.
anyways, i wanted to back up to that drive, so i put vista back on and copied the shit over, and then put 7 back on. it will read fine in xp when my bios comes back. but in order to get it from my new laptop (also running 7) to the old one, i had to use my mp3 drive...
so, it now exists in five places. that's more than sufficiently safe.
anyways, the thumb key is more than enough space for one song at a time for a few weeks until things resolve themselves back to stability.
the thing is that i bought this laptop refurbished to use for school in the short run and turn into an effects rack long term. the hope was also to turn it into somewhat of a live out. i mean, it's hard to lull a tank of a pc out and about. the signal was supposed to dual out of the laptop and the pod into a stereo receiver and play through a set of celestions, which i had interpreted as a sort of modern, technology-friendly update to the classic marshall sound. i mean, trying to run this stuff through amps creates garbage. it has to be through clean signals...but getting as close to the original path as possible struck me as worthwhile.....
it's not quite to that point. well, i never finished the symphony i wanted to perform, anyways. but, it is going to end up with cubase, guitar rig and pod software - along with other guitar effects, which will turn it into a backup guitar studio.
i cannot hook it up to a firewire interface and consequently cannot connect it to the mixer or any of the things into the mixer. nor does it have a midi in/out. so, my options are limited...this is temporary....
....but it will get me back to work while i'm waiting.
there are cheap usb soundcards nowadays. it's not really necessary. but if that bios doesn't flash...
actually, something else i won't be able to do (i don't think) is drive the signal. i'll have to check. the question is if the usb sound card out on the pod takes a dry or wet signal in.
if it does, i have no real complaints regarding guitar tone. i'll just have to wait until the mixer comes back up to tweak it.
if not, i'll have to see how it sounds, but i'm not compromising my tone, either....
unfortunately, it makes sense to me to think that the usb out is just a signal from the unit - meaning it won't matter what i put in front of the thing, it won't pick it up.
hopefully, it surprises me, but it doesn't really make sense to me to think it can do that.
i use it largely for amp sims. i use guitar rig for post-processing. well, it's what each is made for. the problem with the amp sims is they need some fire to reverse that dead, digital sound. i guess if i was doing that corporate emo hair metal thing it would be fine, but i'm not; i find i need to drive it with a tube pre-amp to be useable, and i need to drive *that* with some boxes to get the most of it.
i didn't think that through.
i'll find out in a few hours.
i'm actually able to recreate fuzz-->tube-->amp fairly well with that setup, and without getting evicted.
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