djwayne- You are on a slippery slope here. Once you have three of four of the most popular guitar programs, you will be sitting in front of your computer after the 400th try at one of the presets and think to yourself....music....wasn't I trying to make music?? :)... I kid you not one night after like 2 hours I was only half way through the program settings trying out sounds and guitars. This is only one of the several programs I have with literally hundreds of amp effects settings and before I even started to dabble into making my own sounds. I ended up trying sounds as a hobby instead of making music :)

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djwayne- You are on a slippery slope here. Once you have three of four of the most popular guitar programs, you will be sitting in front of your computer after the 400th try at one of the presets and think to yourself....music....wasn't I trying to make music?? :)... I kid you not one night after like 2 hours I was only half way through the program settings trying out sounds and guitars. This is only one of the several programs I have with literally hundreds of amp effects settings and before I even started to dabble into making my own sounds. I ended up trying sounds as a hobby instead of making music :)

Well, I'm basically going thru the sounds right now to see what's available and I'll choose a few favorites to work with. Guitar Rig 5 has many great sounds, the Tweed and the White amps being my favorites, and I already have it. Pod Farm Free has a few I like too, Pod Farm 2.5 standard version has a Neve pre-amp, that has me curious, and Scuffham has a killer chorus/delay  preset that just makes my bass sound like a million bucks. So it's a tough call right now. After I make a decision on what else if anything to buy, I'll settle down with just a handfull of sounds and work with those. They'll become my "goto" sounds. It is nice though to have lots of options. Some of the sounds inspire me to play and write already. When I hit on a killer sound, I just want to play with it for awhile. This can lead to new songs...The bottom line is I've played my guitars more in the last few days than I have all year, so it's motivating me to play. When I go back and listen to my tracks dry, it's very depressing. So I have no regrets on upgrading my effects options.

djwayne

Starise


djwayne- You are on a slippery slope here. Once you have three of four of the most popular guitar programs, you will be sitting in front of your computer after the 400th try at one of the presets and think to yourself....music....wasn't I trying to make music?? :)... I kid you not one night after like 2 hours I was only half way through the program settings trying out sounds and guitars. This is only one of the several programs I have with literally hundreds of amp effects settings and before I even started to dabble into making my own sounds. I ended up trying sounds as a hobby instead of making music :)

Well, I'm basically going thru the sounds right now to see what's available and I'll choose a few favorites to work with. Guitar Rig 5 has many great sounds, the Tweed and the White amps being my favorites, and I already have it. Pod Farm Free has a few I like too, Pod Farm 2.5 standard version has a Neve pre-amp, that has me curious, and Scuffham has a killer chorus/delay  preset that just makes my bass sound like a million bucks. So it's a tough call right now. After I make a decision on what else if anything to buy, I'll settle down with just a handfull of sounds and work with those. They'll become my "goto" sounds. It is nice though to have lots of options. Some of the sounds inspire me to play and write already. When I hit on a killer sound, I just want to play with it for awhile. This can lead to new songs...The bottom line is I've played my guitars more in the last few days than I have all year, so it's motivating me to play. When I go back and listen to my tracks dry, it's very depressing. So I have no regrets on upgrading my effects options.

 Best of luck to you on that! I find that if I get caught up in search mode I get nothing accomplished. You have the right idea there. I also upgraded to the new GR5 pro  offer through Cakewalk. I'm glad I did. There is a lot of potential there.
 I also have Amplitube 3 with most all of the packs metal/hendrix and fender. Not sure if I  would need podfarm because I have the HD hardware equivalents. I find myself actually going to that hardware more and more. Mainly because I need to duplicate the sounds live and I don't want to drag a laptop to the gig.
 It is fun to just sit down and play with this stuff. Take an evening and go through all of the cool sounds you can get.

Slightly OT but I have a quick question about GR 4;
How does the guy in the following link have so many more selections thanwhat came with X1?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBTlZb1jMyo
Do they sell additional sounds?
Thanks,
Randy

The one that comes with X1 is a LE version, meaning Limited Edition. It looks like he has the full version in the video.

Thanks for that link, I found a few other videos on GR5 right next to it that are very informative.

Doesn't matter, I've got GR5 now and I have ALL the goodies !! Including the Van 51 amp !!

There's sooo much cool stuff in this program  it's ridiculous, and I still haven't hit it all !!

It takes a while to go thru a warehouse full of amps, cabinets, effects, mics....

EDIT!!! This post is inaccurate. Please refer to post #130. My apologies. Yours truly, Beepster.


I am EXTREMELY interested in the Van 51 model. The early 5150s are pretty much my favorite amp ever made. The GR5 model is supposed to be very very good. But I was just letting g_randybrown that he may have access to all those guitar sounds in the vid. You, my friend, are certainly doing much better than I in GR terms. I should be able to upgrade in a month. I can't wait. :-)

EDIT!!! This post is inaccurate. Please refer to post #130. My apologies. Yours truly, Beepster.


@djwayne... did you create an NI account when you were using GR4 LE? That is the only way to unlock the extra content. If you didn't... I hate to tell ya but I think you might have been able to upgrade to GR5 for $80 instead of $100. Actually I'm starting to think that the LE version I'm talking about may have been the "DEMO" version with only a few amps and when I registered/upgraded they gave me GR 4 PRO (I did not pay anything for the upgrade). Ya'll should look into that because if you can get those extra amps, effects and discounts for free... well, I'm sure you'd want to. But again I may have just gotten the the extras with the X1 Suite. I really don't think I did though. Food for thought.

EDIT!!! This post is inaccurate. Please refer to post #130. My apologies. Yours truly, Beepster.


I wasn't hounding you. I'm just saying that the version that came with my retail package let me get access to ALL of the amps in that vid for free. I'm trying to let people know that they may indeed have access to far more content than they currently have. It was a bit of a weird process that others on the net have had problems with and ended up thinking that those basic amps were all they had access to. I would have thought the same thing too if it hadn't have been for threads on other sites about this exact issue. g_randybrown asked SPECIFICALLY where that content was and I gave him an answer based on my experience. Seriously man... not trying to give you or anyone else a hard time. Just trying to help people get some extra toys to play with. Peace.

Thanks. I'm still just getting my head wrapped around X1 and have some hardware things I need to do first but yeah... I'll check it out soon. I'm already sold on GR5 anyway. But seriously, dude. I really didn't mean to upset you. My apologies. Just trying to help.

I'm currently trying to finish my first little experiment which is all about just getting my work flow going (it's all loops I'm just dragging and screwing around with in the TV). It's just about done. Tomorrow I have doctor type stuff happening and if I'm feeling okay after that I have to yank my PCI i/o out and install my new box and test it. Then I move onto my little blues song test. I'm just trying to methodically work through the tuts and manuals and when I figure something out exploring it as much as I can. Essentially I don't really have any huge need to play around with the demo as I have some pretty decent amp settings for what I'll be doing before I do the upgrade to GR5. I think by the time I need the 51 I'll own the full version anyway. The "Jump" amp is suitable for now. Cheers.

Oh... I do. I just don't have time to play with it yet. To download and install the demo on my big system would eat up valuable learning time and my current version is more than capable of handling the simple tasks I need for now. I'm just fleshing out workflow stuff and learning all the fancy things I can (and cannot) do with X1. I'll have the full version of GR5 soon enough. If anything I'm a patient fella'. :-)

Perhaps we'll all still be here for the Rig's jubilee. ;-p

You can have the full GR5 on your computer in about 20-30 minutes or so....then you can play with it all you want !! Why wait ??

 
Are you sure you're not getting kickbacks from Native Instruments?  ;)

The one that comes with X1 is a LE version, meaning Limited Edition. It looks like he has the full version in the video. 


Weird since mine shows Guitar Rig 4  with no sign of it being a light edition (no LE)...plus under license it states "Full"