PD Space Guitar Synthesizer Forum

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Arpeggiator:
The doubler voice, be it doubler, overtone or harmoniser, can be cycled from the root to the knob setting, in multiple fashions. To do that select a pattern from the ARP menu upper right in the SHAPER tab.
The arp's speed and sync is however on the SETUP page:
- ARP sets the speed in notes per beat (that means it is allways linked to the BPM!)
- SYNC When this sync is on, the arp pattern will be restarted every nth beat: For creative purposes, this is kept unlinked from your hosts bar setting.

TIP: The remote control Doubler ARP/Harmonic level combined with LFO will allow you to shape the envelop contour of every arp note. Note that the LFO PHASE and SHAPE then have great effect on the arp notes!
Also: If the LFO has 1/2 beat and ARP 1/1, then the LFO will make 2 beats with the same ARP note etc.

AMP filter : Local ENV
Sofar all ENV in SG was based on the level at the dry input: this ofcourse ignores all added contours from the fx. E.g. : an autowah then doesnt react to a DELAY or ARP in front of the filter! So I added Local ENV that will take the signal strength at the input of the filter. this also diversifies the guitar from the synth in double or quatro modes.
It will also stereo wobble stereo inputs!

Guitar volumepot (a bit crackling alas 😉 used for swelling  synth sound. No special hardware, just PD Space Guitar.
Settings on screen at the end.

SG has the user presets and all IR files stored in your <My Documents>/PD Space Guitar folder.
The exact <My Documents> name depends on your OS, on iOS it is "On my Ipad"/"On my Iphone"

> Documents ( on iOS it is "On my Ipad"/"On my Iphone" )
  >PD Space Guitar
        >CabinetIR    <-- here your cabinet wavs
              someCab1.wav
              someCab2.wav
              >myCelestionCabs   <-- 1 level of subfolder allowed!
                    VINTAGE30_centeredSM58.wav 
                    VINTAGE30_edgeSM58.wav
              >myJensenCabs   <-- another bundle
                    jensen12_vintNeumann.wav
                    jensen10_vintNeumann.wav
        >ReverbIR     <-- your reverb IRs
        >NAM           <-- SG 2.0.44 and up: your NAM captures. E.g get them fron Tonehunt.org

You can not delete the factory wav's and nam: they will be reinstalled automatically. this to preserve consistent behaviour in the factory presets.

When using NAM's it is important to realise what your computer is capable of: so called "high accuracy" captures cost high CPU.
On Tonehunt.org you can find light, nano and feather models to use via the search filters:


Please dont forget: you only need NAM for getting a classic guitar overdrive sound. You can also leave it off: all first 259 factory presets don't use NAM

How to use this on IOS:
Due to the hilariously complicated and convoluted system Apple provided for appgroups and filesharing within, SG has to resort to some kind of syncing.

In short:

• update files in iOS filemanager
• start SG standalone to update AUv3 (wait for popup)
• now you can start your host with SG.

In detail:
1) You can add/delete cabinet,reverb and NAM in the iOS filemanager in folder "On my Ipad"/ PD Space Guitar
2) restart the standalone app
3) The standalone app will start an update thread: as soon as it founds all changed files it will show a popup with how many files are prepared for syncing with the AUv3. You may now quit the standalone, if you want to use the AUv3 in a host.
4) Open your host, in the SG auv3, as soon as you click to change a cab,verb or NAM, the update from the standalone is fetched.