Roxsyn Guitar synthesizer is a wonderful FX processor (video)

zvon

As I am not a guitarist, I decided to throw in it my Constellation soundfont and discovered a wonderful FX processor! In the video I am browsing through some of the soundfont patches and Roxsyn presets.

The soundfont is loaded in the SoundFonts app from B-Ray Software. I have used two different hosts: Cubasis 3 and AUM.

rs2000

Excellent examples! Un vidéo très bien fait monsieur.
I think that Roxsyn is best at doing effects that hardly anyone would expect from it 😁

McD

Thank you... I never found much to like about Roxsyn with my guitar. It just made it sound "less" to my thinking but for other inputs it's creating sounds that just don't exist with other apps. I like that. Very good to show how they were thinking out of the box and probably mis-marketed a great FX app but they tend to give their apps away in great fire sales so hopefully many have this one to try out.

zvon

Hi rs2000 and McD,
Thank you both both for your comments, I am glad you enjoyed the examples!
I only played with the presets, I only got it last week, but its seems to be very customizable.

I enjoy Yonac apps in general and have most, some bought at full price and others like Roxsyn bought at $1 sales.

anickt

Nicely done @zvon! 😎👍🏼

lukesleepwalker

@McD said:
Thank you... I never found much to like about Roxsyn with my guitar. It just made it sound "less" to my thinking but for other inputs it's creating sounds that just don't exist with other apps. I like that. Very good to show how they were thinking out of the box and probably mis-marketed a great FX app but they tend to give their apps away in great fire sales so hopefully many have this one to try out.

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

McD

@lukesleepwalker said:

@McD said:
Thank you... I never found much to like about Roxsyn with my guitar. It just made it sound "less" to my thinking but for other inputs it's creating sounds that just don't exist with other apps. I like that. Very good to show how they were thinking out of the box and probably mis-marketed a great FX app but they tend to give their apps away in great fire sales so hopefully many have this one to try out.

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

Guitars are like pianos to me... sacred instruments that should only be placed into rooms of various sizes but rarely fucked with. Of course, Hendrix taught us to think beyond the physical and leverage electronics. We accept the sounds he and others taught us are also sacred. But to just mess with the sound seems so wrong. It's a blind spot for sure.

lukesleepwalker

@McD said:

@lukesleepwalker said:

@McD said:
Thank you... I never found much to like about Roxsyn with my guitar. It just made it sound "less" to my thinking but for other inputs it's creating sounds that just don't exist with other apps. I like that. Very good to show how they were thinking out of the box and probably mis-marketed a great FX app but they tend to give their apps away in great fire sales so hopefully many have this one to try out.

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

Guitars are like pianos to me... sacred instruments that should only be placed into rooms of various sizes but rarely fucked with. Of course, Hendrix taught us to think beyond the physical and leverage electronics. We accept the sounds he and others taught us are also sacred. But to just mess with the sound seems so wrong. It's a blind spot for sure.

Then don't look at this:

https://www.guitarworld.com/amp/news/the-circle-guitar-is-a-self-playing-electric-that-can-pick-at-unbelievable-speeds

zvon

@lukesleepwalker said:

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

Are the guitar articulation and pitchbend, as opposed to keyboard articulation and pitchbend, preserved? Meaning that even if the original tone has more or less disappeared, the part still has a guitaristic feel.

lukesleepwalker

@zvon said:

@lukesleepwalker said:

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

Are the guitar articulation and pitchbend, as opposed to keyboard articulation and pitchbend, preserved? Meaning that even if the original tone has more or less disappeared, the part still has a guitaristic feel.

Sure. Because it's audio processing. MIDI 1.0 is not great for stringed Instrument translation.

zvon

@lukesleepwalker That's what I thought, thanks for the reply.

JeffChasteen

@lukesleepwalker said:

@McD said:

@lukesleepwalker said:

@McD said:
Thank you... I never found much to like about Roxsyn with my guitar. It just made it sound "less" to my thinking but for other inputs it's creating sounds that just don't exist with other apps. I like that. Very good to show how they were thinking out of the box and probably mis-marketed a great FX app but they tend to give their apps away in great fire sales so hopefully many have this one to try out.

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

Guitars are like pianos to me... sacred instruments that should only be placed into rooms of various sizes but rarely fucked with. Of course, Hendrix taught us to think beyond the physical and leverage electronics. We accept the sounds he and others taught us are also sacred. But to just mess with the sound seems so wrong. It's a blind spot for sure.

Then don't look at this:

https://www.guitarworld.com/amp/news/the-circle-guitar-is-a-self-playing-electric-that-can-pick-at-unbelievable-speeds

That demo sounds remarkably like classic Sonic Youth.

lukesleepwalker

@JeffChasteen said:

@lukesleepwalker said:

@McD said:

@lukesleepwalker said:

@McD said:
Thank you... I never found much to like about Roxsyn with my guitar. It just made it sound "less" to my thinking but for other inputs it's creating sounds that just don't exist with other apps. I like that. Very good to show how they were thinking out of the box and probably mis-marketed a great FX app but they tend to give their apps away in great fire sales so hopefully many have this one to try out.

Indeed, it's uncanny how the processed guitar can essentially disappear with Roxsyn on it, which I suppose could be good if you want to create pads or a guitar "wash" sound. However, one way to make it reappear is to put some WOOOOOOTTT on it.

Guitars are like pianos to me... sacred instruments that should only be placed into rooms of various sizes but rarely fucked with. Of course, Hendrix taught us to think beyond the physical and leverage electronics. We accept the sounds he and others taught us are also sacred. But to just mess with the sound seems so wrong. It's a blind spot for sure.

Then don't look at this:

https://www.guitarworld.com/amp/news/the-circle-guitar-is-a-self-playing-electric-that-can-pick-at-unbelievable-speeds

That demo sounds remarkably like classic Sonic Youth.

Indeed. Maybe on purpose?