I’ve been falling in love with GP and I feel like i’ve found what i’ve always looked for. I am doing a lot of songwriting and want to be able to easily playback a recording made in the native GP recorder.
For example, I want to record songwriting sessions that are frequently 2-3 audio tracks and a midi track for my piano. I understand how to record all of these with the native recorder. But is it possible to have a built in GP playback of audio files all together and synced up while also feeding midi back to the instrument? With everything synced up…
Am I missing something? I understand how to export all of this into a DAW and mix it and blahblahblah…But I want quick listen back to ideas that just happened. Stop the recording. press a button, play it all back etc.
I might just use my RME DUREC for this purpose if it’s not easy to implement in GP. Easy enough. What’s important to me is that it is quick so I can stay in the feeling and idea without putzing around with fiddly computer things.
It would be really nice to make something in my global rack space that can take care is this though…
More relevantly, the functionality you describe is implemented by pretty much any DAW.
To get the best of both worlds (e.g., leveraging GP’s strengths for sound design and live performance) just use the GP Relayer plugin to share audio and MIDI between GP and your DAW.
Thanks for the responses yall. Lol I know this is what a daw does. But my end goal is to use less applications! Hah. I think what I’ll do is double up: record with my durec which I can make record and playback shortcuts on my arc controller. This will take care of the quick part. Incase there is a keeper in there I’ll use the internal gp recorder to make stems and midi files.
I think I understand the gp replayer idea you present here. Just make a pipeline to a daw and press record. I think for songwriting sessions that’s easy enough to do….
I understand we are not trying to go into daw land with our gp development. But perhaps there is an implementation that just populates a playback list automatically in the audio player with a naming convention that keeps files organized based on some variable of the project. Even just that without the midi sync…
So maybe a part of the audio player can be set to update its playlist based on a specified folder and when you make the recording it dumps it there. Perhaps writing a multi-layer wav (kind of like what sound devices or rme does) so all the parts are imbedded into a single wav file. That way the player does not have to query multiple files of different quantities.
Just some ideas. I’m not a programmer so I’m really not sure about how to implement any of that on the back end but as an engineer and user of music-y products this would be a very nice addition.
I acknowledge this is not really performance oriented and perhaps does not fit the mission statement of GP.
So, I am attempting to implement this DAW + GP + RELAYER recording setup. Is there any way to get more than 10 relays? If I am going to use relays to also clean up long wiring runs at some points in my session, I definitely wont have enough to record multi track audio and midi for more than just a few tracks.
Is it possible to expand the relay count beyond 10? I understand this might be a niche implementation. If this is possible then this hybrid GP+DAW recording setup will be able to actualize. Perhaps I’m trying to squeeze orange juice from from a watermelon here…
