Guitar Rig Multiple Instances

[Ceara]

To all fellow guitar enthusiasts,

I like everything about Guitar Rig. I have to ask, because I've checked many times, is it possible for it to be multi out? I do this with Spectrasonics Omnisphere to save on cpu. I understand I can route different tracks to the single instance of guitar rig and overdub different parts, but the same patch is applied to them.

tl;dr: Can different patches from guitar rig be applied to different tracks whilst only using one instance? If there is anything similar, a program, or set of actions I must do to achieve what I am asking, please do share.

Thankee

- The Ark.

[oggyb]

Nope, it's a serial plugin, so you need one new instance for every non-summing signal you want affected.

Use as a send or group to affect multiple signals together with one summed output.

Use as an insert on every channel you want to keep separated.

[Richard Graham]

Well yes, Oggy is right that generally Guitar Rig is used as a single-channel "insert" plug in... when being used as a guitar amp sim plug-in, certainly.

To expand a little on what he has said: if you are using one of GR's reverb or delay effects, you can also use it as a Send/Return effect. I sometimes do this for the Space Echo emulation on it.

To do this, you put GR on its own channel, insert your reverb/delay, and route any tracks in any quantities you like, to that channel.

The other thing is that you could stick GR on a guitar track, then "freeze" the track, with the effect on, and move the plug in to the next track. I would only do this if I was short of CPU though.

[oggyb]

if you are using one of GR's reverb or delay effects, you can also use it as a Send/Return effect. I sometimes do this for the Space Echo emulation on it.

Very true, so do I actually(!), but what I meant was it can only run the effects inside it on one signal, however many channels contributed to that signal.

[Moroccomoose]

Caveat first!!!.... I havn't tried this but...

Guitar Rig accepts a stereo input, so with careful use of the splitter component, you might be able to construct a dual mono rig where L is one rig and R is another. It'd all be one patch, but you might be able to get two different chains set up in one instance. Then send the L and R to their own mono tracks.

I will have a play tonight!

[Moroccomoose]

Yip, that works, provided your DAW lets route to a particular channel of the track with the source.

In my case; in reaper, no problem, in my aged copy of Cubase 4 AI - not possible, a mono track can only be routed to both channels simultaneously of a stereo track.