Hey folks! I recently setup a dedicated recording area just for my LinnStrument to record some promotional content for my new EP. This is the guitar solo for "Music Box".
https://youtu.be/qsvplgnn2CA
Request for videos for the next "LinnStrumentalists" compilation
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2492 posts since 8 Jun, 2010
- Roger Linn Design
Nice solo, Zach!
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- KVRist
- 30 posts since 8 Dec, 2013
I skipped a lot of the previous ones (you can still find them on the YT page) but here is Variation 3 of Synaesthetic Explorations Series 4, the last one before a while and last one with this setup.
On top of VSTs played with the Linnstrument, I'm also singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UDZdAHS4Hc
On top of VSTs played with the Linnstrument, I'm also singing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UDZdAHS4Hc
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
This one is called Cold Lonely Streets
https://youtu.be/g7lSidmLiBE
https://youtu.be/g7lSidmLiBE
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2492 posts since 8 Jun, 2010
- Roger Linn Design
You really have good solo guitar technique, Zach.
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
Thanks Roger, I feel like I'm getting satisfactory results these days. Here's one more. https://youtu.be/5tmOnGxx8-4?si=mZe4eduxLtf4KGg8
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2492 posts since 8 Jun, 2010
- Roger Linn Design
Zach, what do you use for your guitar sound?
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
Orange Tree Samples Rock Guitar Standard for all of the guitars that you hear in all of my tracks.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2492 posts since 8 Jun, 2010
- Roger Linn Design
Do those sounds include the amp distortion in the samples, or does the Orange Tree product include separate amp distortion? When you play multiple notes, it sounds like a single amp distortion on them, as opposed to separate recorded amp distortion on each note.
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
Yeah, you picked up on that. That's really something I've noticed that many other guitar sounds don't get right, the out of phase beating on a real guitar when bending up to the same note. The OTS samples are essentially as naked as they can be, totally clean sampled guitar with different articulations. The player is also smart and adjustable about how it strikes the pick, where it's hitting the pick (bridge vs neck have unique samples), how much noise it makes when you release strings, how loud it plays legato passages and what range it will try to legato over. So no FX are baked into the samples whatsoever. This is great on many levels because if you choose, you can run your own effects chain, it's like plugging any old electric guitar into a different rig.
The Orange Tree Sample kontakt player does have a whole FX section with a full stack from cab/speaker emulations, pre-amps, EQs, distortion, delay, chorus, reverb etc. They sound pretty great with presets that cover 90% of what most people would want. I use the built-in FX stack most of the time, but also disable it and plug it into Guitar Rig every now and then when I want something different.
The Orange Tree Sample kontakt player does have a whole FX section with a full stack from cab/speaker emulations, pre-amps, EQs, distortion, delay, chorus, reverb etc. They sound pretty great with presets that cover 90% of what most people would want. I use the built-in FX stack most of the time, but also disable it and plug it into Guitar Rig every now and then when I want something different.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2492 posts since 8 Jun, 2010
- Roger Linn Design
Thanks, Zach. How does it handle independent bends, given that Kontakt doesn’t have MPE? Do you simply create multiple instances in the Kontakt player, then somehow run all the instances though a single effects chain?
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
I'm generally confused about this because things have always just worked for me. If I'm playing live (not recording or anything):Roger_Linn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:20 pm How does it handle independent bends, given that Kontakt doesn’t have MPE?
- I bring a single instance of kontakt into ableton
- Set LinnStrument to channel per note
- In ableton, right-click on the Kontakt instance and enable MPE
- In OTS, set midi to "omni mode"
If I'm recording midi, I set things up a bit differently since Ableton for some reason loses pitch bends. So in this case:
- I bring a single instance of kontakt into ableton
- Set LinnStrument to channel per row
- Create 8 midi tracks mapped to the correct LinnStrument channel(s)
- Route the output of all 8 midi tracks to the input of kontakt
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2492 posts since 8 Jun, 2010
- Roger Linn Design
Interesting. Kontact does permit scripts that can do all kinds of tricks, which OT is apparently doing. I wish Kontakt would add MPE but for some reason they don't want to. Someone told me they're waiting for MIDI 2 to become popular. If so, they may have a long wait.
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John the Savage John the Savage https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=396119
- KVRian
- 830 posts since 28 Mar, 2017
Man, I'm so glad I play guitar. 
But thanks for the info, Zach. I was looking for these details recently.
OTS doesn't volunteer much about the Tone section of the VST except the following:
"Built-in effects engine for instantly-usable blues guitar tones."
Cheers!
But thanks for the info, Zach. I was looking for these details recently.
OTS doesn't volunteer much about the Tone section of the VST except the following:
"Built-in effects engine for instantly-usable blues guitar tones."
Cheers!
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- KVRist
- 95 posts since 19 Oct, 2021
If it helps, here is the exhaustive list:John the Savage wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:23 pm OTS doesn't volunteer much about the Tone section of the VST except the following:
"Built-in effects engine for instantly-usable blues guitar tones."
- Amp
- Cab
- Chorus
- Compressor
- Delay
- Distortion
- EQ
- Flanger
- Reverb (Pedal)
- Reverb (Rack)
- Reverb (Spring)
- Tremolo
- Volume
- Wah
