Electri6ity Users - Question about Bends

[toomanytoys]

For any Electri6ity experts out there, I'm curious if you could help with the following.

I'm trying to see if it's possible in Electri6ity to have a bend where only the bottom note gets bent when you play two notes. This is a common articulation that I've seen in Orange Tree, Prominy, RealStrat, RealLPC, but I can't seem to find it in Electri6ity. It offers a unison bend, but I can't find out how to make only one string bend when two notes are played simultaneopusly. Both notes get bend using the pitch bend wheel, but I only want the lower note bent.

I'm an admitted newbie, so maybe I'm missing something obvious. I just find it hard to believe that with all Electri6ity offers that this simple technique (very common in country and country rock) would be missing.

Much thanks for any help.

[Dave Polich]

Go to the octave above the middle octave on your keyboard. Press D#4 and D4 simultaneously (D#5 and D5 if you're using a Korg or Roland keyboard) and bend the pitch wheel forward (up). You'll hear only one of the notes bent up to the target pitch,
like you want.

This feature is definitely in there, I've been using Electricity and love it. This
is one of the many reasons why I think it's the best virtual guitar instrument I've had the pleasure to use.

[toomanytoys]

Thank you very much for your prompt reply, and I just realized I should have been more clear in my initial question.

Yes, Electri6ity does unison bends very easily (and is a cool feature like you said), but I haven't yet discovered how to do fixed note bends as in the other sample libraries I mention where the notes are more than a step apart.

The Electri6ity unison bend only works for notes that are a half-step or whole step apart. Very often in country and country rock styles (and blues even), a guitarist will play two notes simultaneously that are more than a whole step apart and bend the lower note (a fourth is common). You can hear this, for example, in Lynryd Skynrd's "Gimme Three Steps." The interval of a fourth is played simultaneously on the G and B strings, and the G string is bent up a whole step while the B string is stationary.

Do you know if Electri6ity can do this yet? The other libraries do it easily, but I like the Telecaster sound in Electri6ity a lot. It would be a shame if it couldn't do a very Tele-like technique.

Again, though, thanks for your assistance!

[Dave Polich]

Dave,

Thank you very much for your prompt reply, and I just realized I should have been more clear in my initial question.

Yes, Electri6ity does unison bends very easily (and is a cool feature like you said), but I haven't yet discovered how to do fixed note bends as in the other sample libraries I mention where the notes are more than a step apart.

The Electri6ity unison bend only works for notes that are a half-step or whole step apart. Very often in country and country rock styles (and blues even), a guitarist will play two notes simultaneously that are more than a whole step apart and bend the lower note (a fourth is common). You can hear this, for example, in Lynryd Skynrd's "Gimme Three Steps." The interval of a fourth is played simultaneously on the G and B strings, and the G string is bent up a whole step while the B string is stationary.

Do you know if Electri6ity can do this yet? The other libraries do it easily, but I like the Telecaster sound in Electri6ity a lot. It would be a shame if it couldn't do a very Tele-like technique.

Again, though, thanks for your assistance!

Well, no, I don't know how to perform the particular bends you descrobe in Electricity.
Sorry..

[dynamitec]

Hi,

unfortunately it's not possible at moment. But it's fairly easy to add to the next Electri6ity update.

Cheers,
Benjamin