Weirder, Wilder, Ambient, Effects For Guitar?

CracklePot

@rcf said:
I use lots of parallel and series effects routing patched together in AUM. In addition to Blackhole, Mangleverb etc, I love using long user made impulse responses in Thakfnar, layered with glitches, burbles and random, microloops from FluxFX, iPulsaret, Ttap, WOV and FAC Envolver modulating DLY times. Then hints of physical modelling using apps like Objeq, CuSnP, the Rings clone in MiRack. I also use a couple of different vocoders as resonators sometimes; lock a note, bass or otherwise to the key you're playing in and use the guitar as a modulator; the vocoder note usually set quite low in the mix, then only resonates when you return to the key centre. I'm working on an AUM patch at the moment using 6 instances of Thakfnar, all using different impulse responses. 😉

Good stuff.

CracklePot

@rcf said:
Old Thak also has very decent IR file management built in. You can move or copy impulse responses into your own sets and zip them up, all within the app. You have to do the file management stuff in either the standalone or the IAA first. Low mixed light water trickles, with a bit of high-pass filtering sound great when used as IRs; use them full wet for ambient goodness, along with a separate channel for any dry signal content. Also vocalised whispers can be lots of fun.

Wow!
More good stuff.
We are on a similar journey.
I will look out for you on the Astral plain.
🤙🏻

Gavinski

@rcf said:
I use lots of parallel and series effects routing patched together in AUM. In addition to Blackhole, Mangleverb etc, I love using long user made impulse responses in Thakfnar, layered with glitches, burbles and random, microloops from FluxFX, iPulsaret, Ttap, WOV and FAC Envolver modulating DLY times. Then hints of physical modelling using apps like Objeq, CuSnP, the Rings clone in MiRack. I also use a couple of different vocoders as resonators sometimes; lock a note, bass or otherwise to the key you're playing in and use the guitar as a modulator; the vocoder note usually set quite low in the mix, then only resonates when you return to the key centre. I'm working on an AUM patch at the moment using 6 instances of Thakfnar, all using different impulse responses. 😉

Sounds absolutely fascinating, I'd love to hear what it sounds like!

oceansinspace

CS grain, CS spectral as standalone. Hails frippertronics are on.

bcrichards

I made this delay rack in Drambo that feels perfect for guitar

puppychumful

Thank you so much everyone, this thread is now my official guide to the world of guitar based sonic shenanigans and exalted excess. One pick scrape can now rule the universe!

Edward_Alexander

@McD said:
Anyone that wants to be holding a guitar (and using it as "the" single controller) while an IOS device makes wild, weird sounds needs to buy MIDI Guitar 2 and all it's IAP's. It will allow FX to be applied to the guitar input and turn "notes" into MIDI events at the same time. It is an AUv3 Host for FX apps and synths.

Someone watching the performance will assume the sounds are coming anywhere but from the guitarist.

It's an out of body experience for the guitarist... doors open to rooms never accessible before.

I know I’m late to the party here, but I’d like to second this MIDI guitar 2 recommendation. Amazing when you realize what is possible; being able to control anything and everything with your guitar.

Yonac’s “Roxsyn” is another one, but handles midi in a totally different way.

ghost_forests

This is my first post btw, but just butting in to say there’s quite a few cool hardware options now for connecting your guitar to your iPad, namely the Orange Omec, Teisco Interface and the XSonic XTone Pro, all which act like proper pedals but are essentially just audio interfaces. The Orange is the most basic and the XTone the most feature-heavy, but all seem like they do a pretty great job.

Philandering_Bastard

@ghost_forests said:
This is my first post btw, but just butting in to say there’s quite a few cool hardware options now for connecting your guitar to your iPad, namely the Orange Omec, Teisco Interface and the XSonic XTone Pro, all which act like proper pedals but are essentially just audio interfaces. The Orange is the most basic and the XTone the most feature-heavy, but all seem like they do a pretty great job.

Welcome to the forum! The X-Tone was discussed recently:

https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/40115/xtone-pro-tone-shifter-mega

oddSTAR

@Tickletiger mentioned Roxsyn and I think that is terrific for weird and wild guitar noises so I thought I'd mention it's currently on sale...

auxmux

@supadom said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
You want some really out there effects? Try MiRack.

As a word of caution. I’ve bought MiRack about a week ago and found UI atrocious, at least on Pro 10.5. Even simplest patches are glitchy graphics wise. Moving modules around required a lot of ‘getting used to’. This is even before getting into the complexity of the app.

I got mine refunded and didn’t even feel compelled to keep it on my device.

The UI is traditional modular with patch cables. It takes getting used to but so does Drambo.

It's not as easy or difficult as any other modular app platform on iOS, but requires investment of time as anything else.

It works great on my 9.7 iPad Pro 2016 which is where I use it everyday.

On topic, Delayrium is a really good weird one too.

rs2000

@Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr said:
Many thanks, my distinguished colleagues. I even have that app, but didn't know it had been renamed. A google search strangely did not enlighten.

Thafknar, not thakfnar 😉
(my way to remember the name because dev was forced to rename it due to a product name conflict: THAt F**Kn' NAme Reverb)

oceansinspace

Yeah what the flux happened to that app! It was that friggin good and had insane fx you need but.....left to die in 'never update again land'

Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr

I came up with a patch idea last night while falling asleep. I haven't tried it yet because my interface is down. But maybe someone else can use it anyway:

The idea is to use FAC Envolver to bring a pad in while the guitar is playing, then fade the pad out when the guitar stops playing. You set up a pad sound in AUM that is always on. The guitar audio triggers Envolver, which controls the AUM fader to bring in the pad sound when the guitar is playing. Or vice versa--bring in the pad when the guitar is not playing.

You could put filters in between the guitar audio and Envolver, so that the guitar only triggers the pad in certain ranges. For example, put a low pass filter before Envolver. Now I bring in the pad by playing a bass note on the guitar, then solo on high notes while the pad slowly fades out.

Maybe have two pads--one high and one low -- and two instances of Envolver, one with a high pass in front of it, and the other with a lowpass. That way you could get the high pad while playing low on the guitar, and vice versa, so the synth and guitar are always playing in different tessituras and not stepping on each other.

You could set a narrow bandpass so that Envolver only triggers on certain notes. For example, maybe it would trigger a synth arpeggio every time I played high C.