New (Old) guy checkin in...
Hi,
I just joined the forum.
First, let me say how glad I am I found this group. I bought a GNX4 a few months ago, and have been playing around with the effects and cab models, but haven't loaded the software or gotten into recording yet. I was fiddling around with the machine a while ago and think I might have changed the factory settings. Haven't read the whole manual yet so I didn't know what to do. Then I found this group; asked one question; and had the answer in a couple minutes. Thanks for the help. Looks like I stumbled into a good thing here.
Anyway, so a little about myself. Grew up in the 'Frisco Bay Area. Graduated from High School in the Summer of Love (1967) and tripped around in the Haight and Berkeley for a while. Remember the free concerts in SF Park. Saw Quicksilver, Janice, the Dead..anybody remember the Screamin Yellow Groovies? :-)
Saw Jimi at the Oakland Coliseum in 1969 before getting caught in the draft and ending up in the Marines. Totally blew my mind. Never saw anybody like him. I think God decided to come down and show us what could be done with a guitar.
I was overseas when Jimi and Janice died. Bummer.
Got discharged in early 1971 and had some friends with relatives in Tower of Power. Traded a dime bag for a cheap accoustic guitar and got shown most of the basic open chords and how to do bar chords. Somebody showed me how to play \"Wooden Ships\" by CS&N. Other than the singing classes and trumpet lessons I had as a kid in school, that was the extent of my musical training.
Got totally frustrated trying to make my hand do chords and punched a hole in the back of my first guitar. Then I patched it up with an album cover and some tape and played it for about five years.
Never even knew what 440 \"concert pitch\" tuning was. Sure would have made the learning curve easier if I'd had little tidbits of info like that.
Bought a 1961 Fender Musicmaster in 1976, and got into playing it. Just all original stuff. Drove the neighbors crazy with an old tube Fender practice amp. It was small but damn! That sucker could sustain and feedback outrageously!
Anyway, I played the Musicmaster for almost 25 years. Wrote over 800 songs. Mostly I'd compose by taping a track on a double-deck cassette recorder; then play back the rythm and lay down a bass; then play that back and lay down the lead, harmonies; etc. All that over-dubbing produced some pretty amazing reverb and bell tones in the small, wooden-floored room I was working in. Very primitive by todays standards, but I was learning and it was always fun.
Eventually got tired of the neighbors bitching so I moved to a rainforest in Hawaii, and here I can make all the noise I want.
This year I finally admitted to myself that the Musicmaster was about shot: deep dents in every fret, and ditches dug in the rosewood. The round part of the headstock had broken off when I did a bayonet thrust (more frustration) through a sheetrock wall, and I put it back on with dowels and glue. The body had cracked from me bending the neck to get a tremolo effect. Yeah, it was a little worn out. (But I've kept it and still play it once in a while.)
So, I sprung for a used (but excellent) Fender Jimi-Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster which I like a lot. Got a new Marshall AVT-275 amp with twin twelves in it. Bought an Octavia, a Vox Wah, a Tweak Fuzz (ugh!) and even one of those purple Hendrix pedals. That was all good fun to play around with.
Bought the GNX4 a few months ago and am just now getting serious about mastering it. I can see it has a lot of capabilities and there's a lot to learn, but I'm inspired to persevere now that I know you guys are out there working with the same machine, and sharing info about it.
I just bought an Agile PS 900 (PRS copy) from Rondo Music in New Jersey, it's in shipping and I'm looking forward to playing on 24 frets. I've read good things about Agile guitars: lots of bang for the buck, and you can improve them a lot with better pickups and such, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
So, at 56 years of age, why am I doing this? Personal satisfaction. I can play along with records of Jimi, Carlos, Snynnrd, Eric, Angus, Robin, Stevie Ray, BB, and others. But really that's only to get a feel for what it's all about. My real motivation is composition: to write my own stuff. And with the GNX4, I see great possibilities. Really happy about that. You have got to have goals. When you stop striving, you die. That's the truth of it.
I don't see myself as a performer, but I love to write and play. Basically I'm a blues guy, and I like anything that rocks. I think that's the foundation of it all, but I try to avoid self-imposed limitations.
I've always had a thing for artistic expression. My first love was art: drawing and painting. But I shifted over to music because it's a form of expression with less limitations. If I do a painting, I can go so far with it and then it's done. Music I can write, change, edit, and modify any way I want, and any time I want to. I can produced a finished product, but I'm not stuck with it. I can always change it later if I want to. I like that kind of freedom of expression.
So anyway, that's plenty enough for now. Intended to say HI and ended up taking you all on a tour of the universe! Sorry. I'll no doubt have questions from time to time, and appreciate all comments, tips, and suggestions you guys would care to share. For I.D. purposes, just call me...
Rained On
I just joined the forum.
First, let me say how glad I am I found this group. I bought a GNX4 a few months ago, and have been playing around with the effects and cab models, but haven't loaded the software or gotten into recording yet. I was fiddling around with the machine a while ago and think I might have changed the factory settings. Haven't read the whole manual yet so I didn't know what to do. Then I found this group; asked one question; and had the answer in a couple minutes. Thanks for the help. Looks like I stumbled into a good thing here.
Anyway, so a little about myself. Grew up in the 'Frisco Bay Area. Graduated from High School in the Summer of Love (1967) and tripped around in the Haight and Berkeley for a while. Remember the free concerts in SF Park. Saw Quicksilver, Janice, the Dead..anybody remember the Screamin Yellow Groovies? :-)
Saw Jimi at the Oakland Coliseum in 1969 before getting caught in the draft and ending up in the Marines. Totally blew my mind. Never saw anybody like him. I think God decided to come down and show us what could be done with a guitar.
I was overseas when Jimi and Janice died. Bummer.
Got discharged in early 1971 and had some friends with relatives in Tower of Power. Traded a dime bag for a cheap accoustic guitar and got shown most of the basic open chords and how to do bar chords. Somebody showed me how to play \"Wooden Ships\" by CS&N. Other than the singing classes and trumpet lessons I had as a kid in school, that was the extent of my musical training.
Got totally frustrated trying to make my hand do chords and punched a hole in the back of my first guitar. Then I patched it up with an album cover and some tape and played it for about five years.
Never even knew what 440 \"concert pitch\" tuning was. Sure would have made the learning curve easier if I'd had little tidbits of info like that.
Bought a 1961 Fender Musicmaster in 1976, and got into playing it. Just all original stuff. Drove the neighbors crazy with an old tube Fender practice amp. It was small but damn! That sucker could sustain and feedback outrageously!
Anyway, I played the Musicmaster for almost 25 years. Wrote over 800 songs. Mostly I'd compose by taping a track on a double-deck cassette recorder; then play back the rythm and lay down a bass; then play that back and lay down the lead, harmonies; etc. All that over-dubbing produced some pretty amazing reverb and bell tones in the small, wooden-floored room I was working in. Very primitive by todays standards, but I was learning and it was always fun.
Eventually got tired of the neighbors bitching so I moved to a rainforest in Hawaii, and here I can make all the noise I want.
This year I finally admitted to myself that the Musicmaster was about shot: deep dents in every fret, and ditches dug in the rosewood. The round part of the headstock had broken off when I did a bayonet thrust (more frustration) through a sheetrock wall, and I put it back on with dowels and glue. The body had cracked from me bending the neck to get a tremolo effect. Yeah, it was a little worn out. (But I've kept it and still play it once in a while.)
So, I sprung for a used (but excellent) Fender Jimi-Hendrix Voodoo Stratocaster which I like a lot. Got a new Marshall AVT-275 amp with twin twelves in it. Bought an Octavia, a Vox Wah, a Tweak Fuzz (ugh!) and even one of those purple Hendrix pedals. That was all good fun to play around with.
Bought the GNX4 a few months ago and am just now getting serious about mastering it. I can see it has a lot of capabilities and there's a lot to learn, but I'm inspired to persevere now that I know you guys are out there working with the same machine, and sharing info about it.
I just bought an Agile PS 900 (PRS copy) from Rondo Music in New Jersey, it's in shipping and I'm looking forward to playing on 24 frets. I've read good things about Agile guitars: lots of bang for the buck, and you can improve them a lot with better pickups and such, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
So, at 56 years of age, why am I doing this? Personal satisfaction. I can play along with records of Jimi, Carlos, Snynnrd, Eric, Angus, Robin, Stevie Ray, BB, and others. But really that's only to get a feel for what it's all about. My real motivation is composition: to write my own stuff. And with the GNX4, I see great possibilities. Really happy about that. You have got to have goals. When you stop striving, you die. That's the truth of it.
I don't see myself as a performer, but I love to write and play. Basically I'm a blues guy, and I like anything that rocks. I think that's the foundation of it all, but I try to avoid self-imposed limitations.
I've always had a thing for artistic expression. My first love was art: drawing and painting. But I shifted over to music because it's a form of expression with less limitations. If I do a painting, I can go so far with it and then it's done. Music I can write, change, edit, and modify any way I want, and any time I want to. I can produced a finished product, but I'm not stuck with it. I can always change it later if I want to. I like that kind of freedom of expression.
So anyway, that's plenty enough for now. Intended to say HI and ended up taking you all on a tour of the universe! Sorry. I'll no doubt have questions from time to time, and appreciate all comments, tips, and suggestions you guys would care to share. For I.D. purposes, just call me...
Rained On
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so I figured I'd give it a shot.
So, at 56 years of age, why am I doing this? Personal satisfaction. I can play along with records of Jimi, Carlos, Snynnrd, Eric, Angus, Robin, Stevie Ray, BB, and others. But really that's only to get a feel for what it's all about. My real motivation is composition: to write my own stuff. And with the GNX4, I see great possibilities. Really happy about that. You have got to have goals. When you stop striving, you die. That's the truth of it.
I don't see myself as a performer, but I love to write and play. Basically I'm a blues guy, and I like anything that rocks. I think that's the foundation of it all, but I try to avoid self-imposed limitations.
I've always had a thing for artistic expression. My first love was art: drawing and painting. But I shifted over to music because it's a form of expression with less limitations. If I do a painting, I can go so far with it and then it's done. Music I can write, change, edit, and modify any way I want, and any time I want to. I can produced a finished product, but I'm not stuck with it. I can always change it later if I want to. I like that kind of freedom of expression, I guess.
So anyway, that's plenty enough for now. Just wanted to say hi and took you all on a tour of the universe! Sorry. I'll no doubt have questions from time to time, and appreciate all comments, tips, and suggestions you guys would care to share. For I.D. purposes, just call me...
Rained On
Got a lot of similar tastes in music...
I'm 52 so I remember a lot of what you're talkin about..
Welcome and have fun at the site..
Always room for more.. Aint nothing but a party here...
When you get more confident with the recorder don't forget to post something in the music section.. Looking forward to hearing it..
Once again,
Welcome,
See Ya,
Tal
The welcome is muchly appreciated. :-)
My wife and I (she's the computer head in the family) just got off the phone with Shane at Digitech support and we got everything loaded into the computer and working. I can record tracks with the guitar and lay tracks over that. All the sound during recording and playback comes through my Marshal amp.
I was asking Shane if there was any way I could plug our Edirol PCRM-80 MIDI keyboard directly into the GNX4 for playing and recording purposes. (The GNX4 does have MIDI in and out sockets.) He wasn't too sure: thought it might need an external sound module, and wasn't even sure if that would work.
Anybody have any experience running a MIDI keyboard through the GNX4? Or, is there another topic area on this forum I should pose that question to?
Rained On
When going OUT from PC via MIDI, you can keep going out to 16 devices, as there are 16 midi channels.....but for going into the PC via midi, you need an input for each device, so the answer is no, you can't hook a keyboard up to the gnx and play through it to get to the PC. You'll need to run the keyboard to the midi in/out on your soundcard if you have it, or pick up something like a midisport uno or something similar (a usb midi interface)......I have a gnx 3 so don't know if gnx4's xedit program runs through the usb or you need the midi like on the 3.........if it uses the usb and have midi on your soundcard, you won't need to buy anything........
HTH,
Bill
I believe I understand what you are saying, and I think you are right.
We don't have a physical connection capability to the PC sound card, so that's out. What we have is two separate programs running devices that enter the PC through USB ports: the Pro Tracks program for the GNX4, and SONAR LE for the Edirol PCR M-80 MIDI keyboard controller.
Right now the problem is getting them to both work at the same time, and hopefully together. When I bring one on, it disconnects the MIDI IN-OUT sound designations of the other. We're experimenting to see what we can do.
What I'd like to do is, say, lay down drum and bass tracks, maybe some rythm guitar, and then do a track with the keyboard. Vocals and lead guitar could come later, but the glitch is in getting the keyboard to input in a synchronized manner using Pro Tracks, as can be done with additional guitar parts.
I'll Google the Midisport Uno you mentioned to see what I can learn about it. That might be a way to go. Many thanks for the help!
Rained On