Gp 5 s gear the stealer rackspace

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.

Here is the rackspace as well as the S Gear preset to use ith.
[JB S GEAR.rackspace|attachment]
S GEAR The Stealer AU + preset.zip (69.7 KB)

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  • S-Gear is missing: what version are you using? S-Gear 3.2.2? vst2 or vst3?
  • I donā€™t understand how chaining works in the view. Can you explain?

Maybe AU

Jā€™avais oubliĆ© que Mac existe :smile:

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It is AU. I am on MAC. Pretty easy to swap for VST in the Wiring panel.

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.

Sorry for the confusion.

Jacques


S GEAR The Stealer AU + preset.zip (69.7 KB)
(upload://1TyQv9TaLS1TtZ0NT4VcY45T4Ry.zip) (7.8 MB)

Yes, easy to swap but all widgets and controllers must be remapped.

But it doesnā€™t matter, I donā€™t 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).

Nice looking rack!

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 ā€œeverything on a widgetā€ approach.

During actual playing Iā€™m 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.

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Iā€™m 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. Itā€™s much easier than using a mouse because you can easily do micro movements.

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If I was doing gigs I think Iā€™d probably be more like that. Whether itā€™s in front of a live audience or just messing around with friends, if it needs to be live and spontaneous Iā€™m highly unlikely to mess around tweaking sounds.

For better or worse Iā€™m 99% playing alone at home these days, just for me. Iā€™ll 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 ā€œpresetā€ based. Whether you saved that preset in your DAW or in the underlying VST, it wasnā€™t (in my opinion) a tweak-friendly environment.

After so many years of feeling ā€œhandcuffedā€ and having to click way too many places to tweak or design a sound Iā€™m just drawn toward having everything available at my fingertips on the off chance I might want to adjust it. Thereā€™s also the issue that (in my opinion) the GUIā€™s for the ā€œall 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.

If I used S-Gear, this rack would be up my alley.

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I just play home also. So it is fun to have access to widgets that can be controlled via midi or corespond to your workflow better.

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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 donā€™t share it.
Iā€™m 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. :yum:

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For the fun of it.I made some modifications to the rackspace and variations for different sounds and effect chain.

I selected some of S GEAR fx and put the name of the FX preset I can edit.

I will use the template to make rackspace for backing tracks I am playing with.

GP 5 THE STEALER TEST 2.rackspace (2.4 MB)

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