Hello all -

I am a keyboard player interested in quickly laying down good strummed guitar tracks. I am considering MusicLab Rhythm 'n' Chords, and have downloaded the demo version. This version seems quite limited in some regards, so I thought I would ask the list a couple questions of those of you using the product, or I suppose alternatives to those of you using something else:

1. How is it Rhythm 'n' Chords working out for you?

2. Can the product be made to follow the chord changes in a Cakewalk track, but use the Rhythm 'n' Chords strumming pattern? In the demo, I needed to manually enter all the chord changes as well as the rhythm on the R 'n' C "chart". It would be cool if the product was able to follow the existing SONAR track chordal structure and just overlay it with the selected rhythm.

Thanks!

--AH, you want a program that mind-reads your chord progressions. Hmmmmm. Don't know of any.

Why the insistence on "quickly laying down" the guitar? It's not an easy emulation to do in a MIDI project, no matter what tools you're using. It takes time. Your music is worth time invested in it, I'm sure.

The demo version of that program already came free with Home Studio by the way.

rbowser

rbowser wrote:

Why the insistence on "quickly laying down" the guitar? It's not an easy emulation to do in a MIDI project, no matter what tools you're using. It takes time. Your music is worth time invested in it, I'm sure.

Thanks for the quick reply rbowser

I guess I should have said 'more quickly'. It's just that I'm spending a lot of time in the piano roll moving the start times for each note in each chord to emultate up or down strumming. A labor of love, I guess :)


Bob

Does SHS support CAL? If so this might work for you

Good one, Scook--Home Studio does support CAL, so it's odd that it's not documented in the Help files or anywhere else. Push Control and F1 at the same time, and whatever CAL scripts in your Cakewalk folder come up.

I've used that strumming CAL, and it works well.

Meanwhile, Bob, good to hear from you again. I've done Exactly that same thing many a time, nudging each note around in Piano View. It can work fairly well for a guitar, but the CAL and/or the Rhythm N' Chords program yield much more satisfactory results.

Randy
rbowser

Thanks for the info - I will be exploring CAL real soon.

Bob

Hi. I tried using RealGuitar 3.0 with the Guitar Hero controller (Struminator) - but failed miserably.  So complicated, and I found the Guitar controller 'strings' flipper to be very clumsy and insensitive.
 
Has anyone else tried this ??  Pls tell me how !
 
Like you, I need something simple, e.g. - select chord, select strum or pick, select 3/4, 4/4, 8/4 etc, select tempo, and GO.  (with refinements like choosing stronger/ weaker up or down strokes where required, moving the strokes forward or back slightly for swing, etc etc.)  Why can't it be this simple ?  Keith Woods