Hey Chaps
Was wondering if anyone could help me. I have a packard bell laptop with a Vinyl Ac 97 sound card, running Guitar Rig with Wushells Asio4ALL drivers which works great. I am trying to use rig kontrol though and it wont work - the audio comes through okay (although really amplified which wont calm down with the use of the gain controls on rig kontrol) but it wont pick up the midi messages. The only input into the sound card is a stereo jack input and I have tried putting 2 mono jacks from the rig kontrol into it via a simple adapter but it doesnt help. The learn fuction either displays rig kontrol as (off) or (?). Surely NI thought of laptop inputs when designing guitar rig?!?! Also I want to use it to control the NI B4 and/or B4II. Does anyone know if this is possible using rig kontrol 1?
Would be really grateful for a reply
Thanks
Richie
Guitar Rig 1 and Rig Kontrol 1
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- KVRer
- 7 posts since 5 Oct, 2004 from Someset, England
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- KVRist
- 190 posts since 15 Dec, 2002
I use GR1 and the control 1 with a laptop fine. However, not with the built in sound. The rig control 1 does not use MIDI at all. The control signals are sent as one side of the stereo audio output. You say the guitar volume is very high? This would seem to indicate the input onthe laptop is at Mic level not line level. The software is sensitive to the input level of the control audio signals. Too high or low and it wont respond.
Check you soundcard settings and try to get the input tamed down to line input levels.
Check you soundcard settings and try to get the input tamed down to line input levels.
FT
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- KVRAF
- 9220 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Pequot Lakes, MN
Flametop's right. RK's control signal is audio- the guitar's on one channel and RK's on the other in a stereo split. I've found the best results are with the RK signal reading about 1/2 on GR's input meters.
Make sure you have the switch on the back of RK set to ctrl.
You say you're using a simple adapter- is it two mono to one stereo? That's what you need.
For your level problem, turn down the gain in your onboard sound's mixer (the Windows mixer). Or, if ASIO4ALL's got its own mixer, turn it down there.
Make sure you DON'T have both selected in the input module with the channel select- RK will NOT work if you do. Set that to the channel that has the guitar signal on it.
You can't use RK with any other NI products- yet. They've said that they'll provide RK control to other products in the future.
ew
Make sure you have the switch on the back of RK set to ctrl.
You say you're using a simple adapter- is it two mono to one stereo? That's what you need.
For your level problem, turn down the gain in your onboard sound's mixer (the Windows mixer). Or, if ASIO4ALL's got its own mixer, turn it down there.
Make sure you DON'T have both selected in the input module with the channel select- RK will NOT work if you do. Set that to the channel that has the guitar signal on it.
You can't use RK with any other NI products- yet. They've said that they'll provide RK control to other products in the future.
ew
A spectral heretic...
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- KVRian
- 945 posts since 8 Jan, 2004 from California
RK2 is USB, if I'm not mistaken, I wonder if this is the direction they take and forget the RK1. I'm still working out the berubger controller with it, but they tell me that RK2 will have its own middi in to expand it.ew wrote:
You can't use RK with any other NI products- yet. They've said that they'll provide RK control to other products in the future.
ew
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