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Turnado as guitar or bass effect
Anyone doing this?
I just got Turnado, and would like to know if any guitarist or bassist has tried using Turnado as an effect for their guitar or bass with useful results.
Cheers,
- Joe
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I'm on the fence whether to buy or not for the same purpose, so +1 for the question
If you are also looking for a glitch break / sound mangler with tons of simple and deep effects controlled by a very innovative UI to use on any recording on you iPad, I am already pretty sure you can't go wrong. On sale for $10 this Easter weekend.
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I use all of the sugarbytes effect plugin as guitar pedals thru AB2. Wow is awesome for filters and distortion and vintage trem stuff, turnado is a must for noise making: weird lfo madness, cool delays and pitch effects, stuttering, the bit crusher and the ring mod kick asses. Effectrix is cool for detuned tape sounds, auto granular, reverse playback and the reverb is pretty sounding.
@Dramatispersona13 said:
So this works in real-time with a guitar app like JamUp in the input slot? Do you have to use like an entirely dry signal? I just struggle to believe this works without considerable latency or the mess of a modulated sound on top of reverb from the guitar app.
I'm having trouble seeing how these apps would be used / controlled live. Any thoughts?
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Yup, can take the guitar sound crazy places. (Plug warning!) listen to my track
Many of the guitar parts in this song are going through Turnado. In fact, that intro sound isn't synth, it's actually a single guitar mangled by Turnado.
Wow! Great track!!!
Btw, I caved and bought turnado and wow :-)
@fozziemusic thanks! Btw, if you own Auria, you can now get the Auria plugin version of Turnado free because having the Turnado app unlocks it.
Schrodinger wrote:
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Many of the guitar parts in this song are going through Turnado. In fact, that intro sound isn't synth, it's actually a single guitar mangled by Turnado.
Wow! Amazing tone and nice track. If you get a minute, could you suggest which Turnado effects to start with? And any other baby steps? Also, are you using JamUp?
Thanks,
There is virtually zero noticeable latency when Turnado is processing live audio. In Audiobus I have Animoog (which is quite processor heavy) running into WOW then into Turnado and then into AUFX:Space and it is all super snappy.
I think Turnado is very well suited to guitar if you set it up for that duty. If you map the dictator to an external MIDI expression pedal, and have Turnado's effects fade up dry to wet in the dictator, you have a pretty typical guitar effect setup with natual feel, and the added bonus of being able to have different effects kick in at different ranges of the pedal if desired. Could go anywhere from traditional to all out insanity. I think I'll be buying another MIDI expression pedal just for this purpose of controlling the Dictator, (for synths though).
No prob @joegrant413
I'm pretty much using Jamup exclusively for guitar and bass nowadays. The effected guitar part used the spectralizer and stutter effects in the Auria Tornado plugin which I automated. The Turnado effect is very hard on the ipad so freeze every other track and free up CPU.
Thanks!
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Thanks to @OmnilimbO for the advice on this. As mentioned on the other thread (about the sales), I tried out Turnado first, and then just grabbed WOW figuring I would want it later and regret not doing it on sale. I do think Turnado has more traditional applicability as a general effects suite, though both are cool.
@OmnilimbO was right about it not really adding significant latency. I was amazed how I had it going with my DAW and guitar app (used mostly Flying Haggis) through AB, and it ran great at 256 frames. I imagine it'd have to be even smoother on the newer devices, though I followed some memory clearing tips and that probably helped the overall performance of my iPad2.
While the apps are really cool, the interface design, I'm sorry, is just lazy. It feels like a 1:1 port of controls meant for a PC plugin - good luck even reading the names of the presets and controls, let alone being able to click them. I know you can zoom in but that becomes annoying in its own way.
Question: What does "Guitar Amp" do as an effect in Turnado? I think it just modulates the sound to make whatever you are playing sound like it's played through an amp. With guitar, a good deal of the presets are going to be thin and just unusable, but then again, I don't know enough about the settings to adjust it yet. But it's a amazing collection of effects options, and it's pretty cool that you can apply it universally to ANY input sound.
Hey bro, could you tell me more about whether or not Wow Filter makes sense to get for a guitarist? I already have Turnado and AU fx space and Dub. Thx, Joe
I just fooled around with WOW in front of bias ( with guitar) and liked the drive options a lot. In addition, using the envelope follower to modulate drive is a nice option.
Question to people experienced with Wow in AB2: using my Irig pro with my guitar and Wow as input in AB2, I can not get any live input into Wow except for playing with loops from the included player. In the settings, you can't switch between loops or live audio as the setting is in Audiobus mode and can't be changed. Am I missing something?
@Schrodinger said:
Love what you did with this song. Did you also use Turnado for some of those "scratchy" sounding backing vocal tracks? Also the synth sounds great too.
Bump. I'd like to hear more about which particular effects on Turnado have actually been useful with guitar or bass. Cheers, Joe
It's tough to describe. On my iPad 2, I have to be careful running amp modeling programs and effects on top of it in AudioBus. When I did have it running, it worked fine, except that the effects aren't what you normally think of as "guitar effects". There are some good reverbs and modulation, but frankly, if that's your goal, the AUFX series from Kymatica is cheaper and more efficient to run.
It's just a question of "fit", or how dramatic you want your guitar sound to be altered. One good example is that there's a "stutter"/"glitch" effect similar to the intro of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day, which is basically a more dramatic tremolo effect where the sound cuts completely out. There's also a wide variety of phasers, flangers, and filters, so if that's your thing, I'm sure you can get plenty of value out of the app.
My complaints about Turnado (and WOW Filterbox) on guitar can be boiled down to two things:
(1) I feel like the effects in general are geared towards electronica and dubstep, and and the more aggressively you edit that guitar sound with effects, the less important it becomes to use a guitar in the first place, as opposed to a synth or other generator.
(2) The interface of the SugarBytes app feels like a direct port of a PC plug-in, without great thought into using the real estate and convenience of a touch screen. Also, since a great deal of the effects require you to manually change settings on a dial or pad WHILE you are playing, you almost have to lay down a clean track in AudioShare first and then do the effects in post-editing. In fact, that might be the preferred approach anyway from a CPU resource standpoint.
By contrast, I bought AUFX: Space and AUFX: Dub and immediately had a sense for how I could use that as a guitar effect. Unfortunately, my iPad2 really isn't suited to be doing anything that requires real-time processing of both an input device and effects into a DAW.
@coolobar yup, also lathering on Turnado on the sunrizer melody. The backup vocals are using the Saturn plugin in Auria - definitely a plugin you must get if you own Auria. May still be on sale too.
@joegrant413 the way I use Turnado is different to other effects. With other effects, I add and set the effect with an end in mind. With Turnado, I throw it on, select some random preset, start turning random knobs till shit sounds exciting... And it often does with Turnado
@stormjh1 I believe that mangling a guitar with effects can sound more organic than just using a synth even when you end up with something that doesn't sound like guitar.
Wow, Turnado is really interesting!
@Musikman4Christ said:
It absolutely is interesting! A ton of possibilities in that app.