I did not play guitar for many months and decided to go software only so I bought GP5 upgrade and made a rackspace for my favorite S GEAR amp. The Stealer.
I made a super preset for the Stealer in S Gear and will use variations to make my presets within GP5.
You just made me realized I attached the wrong file for the rackspace. The chaining should have only S GEAR in it. Also the pre and post effects are for the Super preset and not different instances of S Gear.
Yes, easy to swap but all widgets and controllers must be remapped.
But it doesnāt matter, I donāt intend to use this rackspace, it was just out of curiosity.
I work directly in the plugins to create my sounds and only put in the panels the widgets that need to be manipulated live.
For me, reproducing plugins in the panels is like creating a duplicate, and therefore a waste of time. (this is how I see GP: a tool optimised for efficiency and workflow speed).
With my guitar racks I go back and forth between putting every parameter on a widget and only a minimal set. I end up tweaking my sounds a lot, so I lean toward the āeverything on a widgetā approach.
During actual playing Iām mostly just changing variations with a foot controller. When I want to edit my sounds I find it easier to do through widgets rather than opening my plugin windows.
Iām totally the opposite. Only widgets for stuff o need to control during a show. Everything else directly through plugin editor.
The one thing I really recommend is to use a graphics tablet such as a Wacom and use the pen to tweak the parameters. Itās much easier than using a mouse because you can easily do micro movements.
If I was doing gigs I think Iād probably be more like that. Whether itās in front of a live audience or just messing around with friends, if it needs to be live and spontaneous Iām highly unlikely to mess around tweaking sounds.
For better or worse Iām 99% playing alone at home these days, just for me. Iāll tweak stuff a lot more, most of the time not even saving it.
Years ago, when all my sounds had to be constructed in a DAW, I think we were almost forced to be more āpresetā based. Whether you saved that preset in your DAW or in the underlying VST, it wasnāt (in my opinion) a tweak-friendly environment.
After so many years of feeling āhandcuffedā and having to click way too many places to tweak or design a sound Iām just drawn toward having everything available at my fingertips on the off chance I might want to adjust it. Thereās also the issue that (in my opinion) the GUIās for the āall in oneā guitar FX packages are either cumbersome, hard to read, hard to adjust with precision, or all three.
Clearly one of the great things about GP is the flexibility to make it work exactly like each of us wants.
Over-simplifying, there are those who enjoy manipulating widgets, plugins or hardware, and there are those, including myself, who consider this to be a necessary step in achieving a result.
Of course, I fully understand the pleasure of the former, even if I donāt share it.
Iām in the same situation as, for example, those who use a vehicle because they need to get around, while others also enjoy driving it.
In the case of music, thanks to the ease and confidence that GP gives me, I get a great deal of pleasure from experiencing my music to the full, whether in public or at home.
What is fantastic about GP is that everyone can enjoy it, whatever their approach, whether technically, artistically or aesthetically.