Guitar rig 7 : Switching preset with a hotkey

Dasheng

Hi,

I'm used to press "G" to swap between two presets (one clean and one with distortion) for some songs that have a clean part. I knew how to do it in GR5, but I cannot find it anywhere in GR7, I'm wondering how can I do this.

What I'm talking about, in GR5 looks like this

I really hope this feature has not be deprecated, and I didn't pay for a software that took it away.

Eddie_NI

Key command control is not available in GR6/7 anymore as it was in GR5. The problem is that when running as a plugin various DAWs handle key commands very differently so the key command feature inside Guitar Rig was not always working well in that context which led to a lot of user confusion and frustration.

We are very sorry that your workflow is negatively affected by this.

You could run Guitar Rig 7 as a plugin in a DAW. Lots of them support "computer keyboard to MIDI" functionality, so this way you can send MIDI messages to Guitar Rig.

Wouter De Muynck

@Dasheng ,

I wasn't aware you could use key commands to control GR5, but I checked and the possibility was indeed there.

I also checked in GR6, and from what I can tell, I only see MIDI learn options, no key command-learn possibilities. A dedicated controller section as in GR5 isn't available and this is also the case for GR7. So the best way forward is to use a MIDI controller to switch presets.

A suggestion from my side: to switch sounds in the same preset I propose you use containers. You add 2 containers to your preset: 1 container includes all the effects/parameters of the distorted sound, the second container contains the effects/parameters of the f.e. vibrato sound. Shared components are put in front of the 1st container. You then assign one macro to the on/off switch of both containers AND (very important), you reverse the polarity of container 2 with the macro configuration. In this way you can toggle between the distorted and the vibrato sounds/containers. This combined with the new Signal Flow functionality of GR7 will give you an excellent overview of what's happening.

I added a screenshot, hope this helps:

Grtz,

Wouter

Dasheng

I see

Sadly I don't have midi controller, I use a usb footswitch that can simulate input, which doesn't help me since the only way I found so far is to have one doing "backward arrow" then enter, and the other one must do the opposite.

The problem is that GR7 load presets a bit slower than GR5, so I can't really use that to switch on the fly.

Would it be another way instead of buying a piece of gear to accomplish that ?

I must say, since I use my GR5 preset, I feel a bit down about the impossibility to use hotkey and I rather use GR5 until I find a way to do something similar in GR7

Wouter De Muynck

@Dasheng , what might be an option is to install a virtual MIDI keyboard like https://vmpk.sourceforge.io/ or https://virtual-midi-piano-keyboard.en.lo4d.com/windows You should be able to use this as a MIDI input device for GR7. It's important to open GR7's Preference, go to MIDI and enable the virtual MIDI keyboard as a MIDI input device.

Dasheng

Thanks for the recommendations.

I didn't success in making any of those option recognized by Guitar Rig 7, unfortunately.

Is there a way we can make suggestions for features ? It would be better to have a functionality directly included in the software, instead of trying to figure a way to manage to do what an older version did.

If you have any other ideas or possible solutions, I'll test them as well.

Eddie_NI

Key command control is not available in GR6/7 anymore as it was in GR5. The problem is that when running as a plugin various DAWs handle key commands very differently so the key command feature inside Guitar Rig was not always working well in that context which led to a lot of user confusion and frustration.

We are very sorry that your workflow is negatively affected by this.

You could run Guitar Rig 7 as a plugin in a DAW. Lots of them support "computer keyboard to MIDI" functionality, so this way you can send MIDI messages to Guitar Rig.

ESAD92

By activating the mouse over the keyboard. You can switch between presets.

Dasheng

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/127959#Comment_127959

Sadly this isn't good to me, the "G" key I'm use to press is actually bind on an USB Pedal I have, so a precise mouse click is not a solution to my problem.

My solution at the moment is to stick to GR5, it's just kind of sad I paid for a product I won't use, but there was no telling this would be removed. I don't blame anyone, I'm sure this functionality was deemed irrelevant when making newer versions.

ESAD92

If you can assign the num lock 5 key instead of g on the USB pedal, the problem will be solved. When you activate mouse commands on the keyboard, the numlock part is used as a mouse. If you move your mouse cursor over the guitar rig 7 arrow keys as shown in the attached picture and press the 5 key, you can easily switch between the two presets. It won't work if there are 3 or more presets.

I use two presets: acoustic and metal solo , it works for me. İf you want I show you on discord.

Dasheng

I don't seem to get it to work.

If it doesn't bother you, my discord name is dasheng

Thank you for showing how to do it

Dasheng

Ok, so if anyone is interested, for this to work you'll have to go to :

"Ease of access keyboard settings", then click on the "Mouse" category (categories are listed on the left), activate "Control you mouse with a keypad" then activate the 3 options that appears.

With that, pressing "num 5" make the mouse use "right click", so all you need is to put your mouse cursor on the arrow it shown in the previous screenshot. Pressing "num 5" now change your preset