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Fredrikgroth · Post by **Fredrikgroth** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:12 pm

(I recently posted this in Cakewalks SONAR-forum, but just realized that this might be a better place to ask... so here we go!)

Many of you have probably tried the Guitar Suite plugins that are available for free at http://www.simulanalog.org

In my opinion, they are the best you can get besides miking up a real amp, if you're looking for THAT particular hi-gain heavy rhythm guitar sound. The Tube Screamer plug, into the JCM900 plug, some tweaking, and your're done! POD, V-AMP, Amplitube, Trash, Guitar Rig etc etc etc, NOTHING that I've heard can get even close.

Enough about the sound. You know what the bad part is? The GUI (or lack of it) really sucks!!!! So my question is; would it be possible to create a GUI that controls these plugins in some way?

/Fredrik

Shifrin · Post by **Shifrin** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 12:10 pm

Spinaudio *used* to have some software to do just that - give VST's without a gui a nice gui

They had various skins to choose from, and you could of course make your own too. Looking at their website though it doesn't seem to be available any more?!

Shif.

CapnLockheed · Post by **CapnLockheed** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:35 pm

Yeah......SpinAudio VST Skin Rack it was called.

Cheers......CL

Majken · Post by **Majken** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 1:57 pm

Now I could be wrong but wouldn't it be possible in SynthEdit as well? I believe one can load plugins and assign SE controllers to the plugin controllers. Although I'm not sure. I was planning on doing it to the SimulAnalog suite earlier as well just cause there's so many people that like them. Would be neat if someone made some nice skins.

/Majken

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:28 pm

Yup, just do it in SE; you can embed any VST/i within an SE-made VST/i (its how the Vokko vocoder works) And make them handle stereo inputs while you're at it.

jtxx000 · Post by **jtxx000** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:32 pm

Fredrikgroth wrote: POD, V-AMP, Amplitube, Trash, Guitar Rig etc etc etc, NOTHING that I've heard can get even close.

Fredrikgroth · Post by **Fredrikgroth** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:17 pm

jtxx000 wrote:
Fredrikgroth wrote: POD, V-AMP, Amplitube, Trash, Guitar Rig etc etc etc, NOTHING that I've heard can get even close.

IMHO, that is. Of course it's all a matter of personal taste, but the guitar sound I can achieve from the guitar suite plugins definitely beats the crap out of any other plugins or modelling-boxes that I've ever heard. It's always better to put two SM57's on an ENGL Savage 120, or even our guitarist Jacob's old Marshall from 1972, but I rarely have those amps in my studio... just my Rocktron whatever-it's-called, and my 80's Marshall rig, but both of them sounds too bad to use.

But thank you for your answers! I will check out SE and see if I can come up with something useful.

Fredrik

Fredrikgroth · Post by **Fredrikgroth** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 4:39 pm

Uuuh..... I just downloaded SynthEdit, but I don't understand much at all!

How do I make a reference to a certain Guitar Suite plugin, and how do I connect the SE knobs to the plugin controllers?

padrake · Post by **padrake** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:16 pm

I've made one in SE a few months ago, but with many of my own modules. A few clicks later here is a public version:

http://www.pwuq.net/public/GSuite_remote_1_1_public.zip

P.S. You'll need the Biquad module by David Haupt and the last beta (0.9590) of SE

Cheers,
Patrick

GreenMachine AmpII

Possible to create GUI for Guitar Suite plugins?