Question ; Gate as guitar effect ?

That's not a gate.
Gates do these things:

A gate opens and closes when the signal passes across the threshold.

The VCA in a Gate/Expander will turn everything down below the threshold and the VCA in a compressor will turn everything down above the threshold.

When the gate closes behind the sound, the gate doesn't open back up until the audio signal is above the threshold.

Gates are good for getting rid of ambient room noise. for example a noisy electric guitar.

Gates can be used as effects. They are commonly used on drum tracks to give it that 80's Phil Collins snare drum sound.

A gate turns the soft parts off below the threshold set by you
 
This effect sounds like he has a harmonizer and a chorus on his guitar. That's all.
Cj

post edited by CJaysMusic - 2010/08/03 16:42:03

I just listen to the first 15 seconds of the sound and that sound has no gate on it, unless the threshold is setrelaly really low. any Its a 3 minutes tape with different sounds as it progresses.
If he doesn't want the first sound your hear, he should specify what timeline the sound is from, yes??
Cj

CJaysMusic


I just listen to the first 15 seconds of the sound and that sound has no gate on it, unless the threshold is setrelaly really low. any Its a 3 minutes tape with different sounds as it progresses.
If he doesn't want the first sound your hear, he should specify what timeline the sound is from, yes??
Cj

CJ, if you watch the video the guy showing the product clearly states and shows there are 3 stompers in the plugin - the first being the "gate" which the presenter says handles the "fade in" of the initial attack/sound.
 
So all I'm saying is that there IS a gate being used, though it is not the entire story, so to speak.
Obviously a gate alone cannot produce that sound, but it is being used in that 'patch'.
 
 
 

CJaysMusic


The fade in comes a minute into the sound!! Like Isaid. In listened to ther first 15 seconds of the sound and he turned the gate on at 56 seconds into the video

If the guy in the video is saying what he is using, why is the original poster asking how to make this sound??
He says what he is using, if you listen to the entire 3 minutes. Does the poster not want to listen to the entire 3 minutes??
Cj

The OP was pretty clear. He asked if the gate in Sonar can be used and for the most part a gate is a gate. Just because you don't know what you're doing is no reason to attack him for asking a question.

10Ten


Not sure which version of Sonar you have but you can get very close and maybe a bit better with just Sonitus Gate and FxVerb, and it's way more tweakable than the stomp modelers in GTR3.

I didn't watch the whole video, but the sound I heard seemed to have a long sustain that MAY have been accomplished via some form of compression (maybe with a "hold" function that some have) along with the gate/reverb, etc.
 
 

Yeah, he had a comp, 2 verbs a mod or two and a gate. I got it down to 2 fx (FxVerb has a really long sustain and built in mod of sorts) and no amp sim and it sounds really cool.

 
Is the FxVerb the one that came with an older version of Sonar?  Or is that some 3rd party verb?
 

10Ten

ba_midi

Yeah, he had a comp, 2 verbs a mod or two and a gate. I got it down to 2 fx (FxVerb has a really long sustain and built in mod of sorts) and no amp sim and it sounds really cool.

Is the FxVerb the one that came with an older version of Sonar?  Or is that some 3rd party verb?

I just did a clean install of 8 (.0 only) and the 8.5s and I had it in the Cakewalk folder.

Yeah, I think it is the CW/Sonar verb that came with one of the older versions (I'm not at my DAw now, but I'm pretty sure that's it).
 

Rain


FX Reverb = the reverb Cakewalk licensed from DSP/FX I think... If I'm not mistaken, it was also referred to as Studioverb for a while... Haven't used it in a while so I couldn't confirm.

Unless we're talking about the old Pro Audio legacy reverb, but I highly doubt it...

It does say DSP-Fx Studioverb in the GUI.