Help! Monitor live guitar input thru amp-sim with BB - 07/24/12 05:20 PM
Hi,
I recently purchased BIAB 2012 Pro, and would like to use it for generating backing accompanyments for guitar practice (so my note choices better reflect the chord progressions). I've also recently purchased Scuffman S-Gear VST amp sim, and would like to use this on my guitar input, but I'm having some problems making this all work together. My setup is pretty capable: I've got BB 2012, a bunch of VST plugins, Reaper, and for computer hardware it's an RME 9652 connected to an SSL Alphalink AD/DA.
Is it possible to monitor live input in BIAB through a plugin? When I hit 'record' on the audio source I see the meters move, but don't hear anything until I playback. Obviously this is useless for practice...
Is there an option to use something like re-wire with BIAB so I can route it's output to Reaper? I didn't see anything, and when I tried to use Rea-route as my ASIO driver it did not result in any audio being transferred to Reaper. Interstingly enough Rea-Route worked somewhat with RealBand...but had occassional crackles and pops.
I tried assigning BIAB a separate output on my RME 9652 via it's ASIO driver, and then hard-patched that analog output over to another analog input (which I then monitored in Reaper). This seemed promising initially, as I was able to hear the BIAB output monitored through reaper (and could use my control surface to adjust volume), but when I tried to monitor my guitar live input through reaper and with an amp-sim plugin the BIAB signal became fuzzy and distorted. If I bypass the guitar input plugin it would work...I heard my guitar and undistorted BIAB backing, but without the lovely S-gear amp sim.
Perhaps I'm overcomplicating things...it seems to me like this would be a pretty typical application for BB (i.e. guitar practice through an amp-sim plugin). Any help that experienced BB users may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Kris
I recently purchased BIAB 2012 Pro, and would like to use it for generating backing accompanyments for guitar practice (so my note choices better reflect the chord progressions). I've also recently purchased Scuffman S-Gear VST amp sim, and would like to use this on my guitar input, but I'm having some problems making this all work together. My setup is pretty capable: I've got BB 2012, a bunch of VST plugins, Reaper, and for computer hardware it's an RME 9652 connected to an SSL Alphalink AD/DA.
Is it possible to monitor live input in BIAB through a plugin? When I hit 'record' on the audio source I see the meters move, but don't hear anything until I playback. Obviously this is useless for practice...
Is there an option to use something like re-wire with BIAB so I can route it's output to Reaper? I didn't see anything, and when I tried to use Rea-route as my ASIO driver it did not result in any audio being transferred to Reaper. Interstingly enough Rea-Route worked somewhat with RealBand...but had occassional crackles and pops.
I tried assigning BIAB a separate output on my RME 9652 via it's ASIO driver, and then hard-patched that analog output over to another analog input (which I then monitored in Reaper). This seemed promising initially, as I was able to hear the BIAB output monitored through reaper (and could use my control surface to adjust volume), but when I tried to monitor my guitar live input through reaper and with an amp-sim plugin the BIAB signal became fuzzy and distorted. If I bypass the guitar input plugin it would work...I heard my guitar and undistorted BIAB backing, but without the lovely S-gear amp sim.
Perhaps I'm overcomplicating things...it seems to me like this would be a pretty typical application for BB (i.e. guitar practice through an amp-sim plugin). Any help that experienced BB users may be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Kris