Pilot Guitar Rig from pc keyboard?

Dimitri F.

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and I'm getting familiar with Guitar Rig 7. My intention would be to use the HP 255 G9 notebook simply as a guitar amp modeler / multi-effects via Guitar Rig 7 in stand alone. It works very well even with my old M-audio Fast track pro audio interface. At the moment this is the equipment I have available, being without use I can not buy other hardware to play together with a choir of friends.

In certain songs you would need to be able to switch from one sound to another, e.g. from clean to overdrive and vice versa within the same preset or by changing Preset. On my Fender Mustang GTX100 amp to do this there is its control pedalboard, but in the case of this new instrumentation much more easily transportable, and extremely more flexible and powerful, since Guitar Rig has the Macros section I am wondering if you can assign some function simply as a shortcut on the notebook keyboard, for example changing the preset up and down to scroll through the list of favorites (suppose the playlist to play) or assign to a key a function such as On/Off of the overdrive block. Or for a Live use is it necessary some control hardware pedalboard to be connected in MIDI to audio interface (or to the USB port)?

At the moment the best thing I've found is to assign a Macro to turn on / off the overdrive block in an experimental preset but when you have a few moments to change having to do it with the mouse to click on the assigned Macro button becomes a problem It's easy to err from haste : in the absence of a pedal board it is certainly more immediate to strike a key on the fly on the notebook.

If this was possible via non-stand-alone DAWs, I use Cakewalk and Windows 10.

Thanks !

Dimitri F.

correction : I intended to write that I am currently unemployed, there were some errors of the translator to whom I rely partly as Italian, for convenience.

Uwe303

Hello,

you can use the up/down arrows if you in the browser to select a preset, then press enter to load it. If you want to midi learnthe up/down keys within GR7 you can use bome´s midi translator, it can, as far as i know, convert many inputs (keyboard too) to midi, to a message you can define.

https://www.bome.com/products/miditranslator

Dimitri F.

@Uwe303 : Thanks for the helpful information about this converter software. I saw that there is also a version from years ago that should be free for personal use on Windows, version "Classic": I will start experimenting with that, most likely it can be enough for me without the need of a full license.

Dimitri F.

An update on my research: I had asked customer support about Bome MIDI translator and they replied that making a correspondence between pressing on the keyboard and clicking on virtual buttons (in Guitar Rig 7) is a bit tricky to do: the best thing was to have the paid version of their converter software and I would have needed a control pedalboard anyway, In short, a paradox.

Then driven by necessity (the old mixer I played through was dying) I had to buy an affordable audio interface (a Thomann brand) for the choir and start using my notebook as a guitar processor with Guitar Rig. Well, I found the solution immediately by studying how the Macros function works. Not only can I take advantage of the simple change between the handful of favorite presets, even with the mouse (I have time between songs), thanks to the multiple parameters that can be assigned to a single Macro button (or knob eventually) I can with a simple tap on the notebook mouse pad to radically change the sound in the audio chain of the same preset, just leave the pointer over that button to be able to activate / deactivate it or switch from scenario 1 to scenario 2 in an instant. I don't need an external pedalboard, not even an assignment on the notebook keyboard.

This automation function through Macros is truly exceptional.