Hey keyboard players! Do you feel kind of left out because of the cool guitar amps that Studio One added in version 4.6? Well, this week's tip is all about having fun, and bringing power chord mentality to keyboard, courtesy of those State Space amps. Listen to the audio example, and you'll hear what I'm talking about.
And so you can get started having fun, you don't even have to learn what's going on to get that sound you just heard. Download Power Chordz.instrument, drag it into the track column, feed it from your favorite MIDI keyboard, and start playing.
Download here.
Now, I know some of you prefer just to download a preset and get on with your life, and that's fine-but for those who want some reverse engineering, here's what's under the hood.
Figure 1: The Multi-Instrument is pretty basic-it just bundles a Chorder Note FX and Mai Tai together.
The preset starts with a Multi-Instrument (Fig. 1) that consists of the Chorder Note FX, and Mai Tai synthesizer. The Chorder plays tonic, fifth above, an octave above, octave+fifth above, and two octaves above when you hit a keyboard key-your basic it's not major, and it's not minor type of power chord.
The Mai Tai uses a super-simple variation on the Init preset. In Fig. 2, anything that's not relevant is grayed out. Turn off Osc 2, Noise, LFO 1, and LFO 2. There's no modulation other than pitch bend, and no FX. Envelope 2 and Envelope 3 aren't used. I set Pitch Bend to 7 semitones to do whammy bar effects, but adjust to taste. Also, you might want to play around with the Quality parameter. I'm allergic to anything called normal, so if you are as well, try the 80s, High, and Supreme settings to see if you like one of those better.
Figure 2: The Mai Tai preset uses simple waveforms, which is what you want when feeding amp sims and other distortion-oriented plug-ins.
Look in the instrument's mixer channel, and you'll see four Insert effects: Pro EQ, Ampire, Open Air, and Binaural Pan. You can check out their settings by opening them up, but the Ampire settings (Fig. 3) deserve a bit of explanation.
Figure 3: Ampire is using the Dual Amplifier and 4 12 MFB speaker cabinet, but just about any amp and cab has their merits.
The reason for choosing the Dual Amplifier is because it's really three amps in one, as selected by the Channel knob on the right-I figured you'd appreciate having three separate sounds without having to do anything other than adjust one knob. Try different cabs and amps, but be forewarned-you can really go down an Endless Rabbit Hole of Tone, because there are a lot of great amp and cab sounds in there. I'll admit that I ended up playing with various permutations and combinations of amps, effects, and cabs for hours.
You can also get creative with the Mai Tai, specifically, the Character controls. I didn't assign any controls to a Control Panel, or set up modulation because having a pseudo- whammy bar pitch wheel was enough to keep me occupied. But, please feel free to come up with your own variations. And of course post your best stuff on the PreSonus Exchange!
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Hey keyboard players! Do you feel kind of left out because of the cool guitar amps that Studio One added in version 4.6? Well, this week's tip is all about having fun, and bringing power chord mentality to keyboard, courtesy of those State Space amps. Listen to the audio example, and you'll hear what I'm talking about.
