Sitar plug in
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Are you asking if there is one, or are you saying that there is one? To my knowledge, there is no plug-in that does it, or at least does it convincingly. I've personally never heard of anything like that, but there may well be one out there somewhere.
I remember there being some sitar patches on like a G-Major and other multi-fx units. But other than getting an actual sitar (or the baby sitar which basically a 6-string guitar with a thing on the bridge to create the sound), I don't think there are many other options.
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I remember there being some sitar patches on like a G-Major and other multi-fx units. But other than getting an actual sitar (or the baby sitar which basically a 6-string guitar with a thing on the bridge to create the sound), I don't think there are many other options.
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moose209
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I was taught Sitar for three years when I was younger and I have one sitting in my loft - which is a tradegy as the instrument is bautiful. What makes a sitar sound great and not shit like on the beatles tracks are the constantly shifting resonance of the sympathetic strings that ring at an octave higher than the note being played on the main string. Trying to reproduce that on the guitar would be very very hard in my opinion. The process is very similar to FM synthesis - by adding waves together you get a fantastic range of possiblities depending on the temperature of the instrument, the quality of strings and the intonation. As always the older and simpler the design the more chaotic and beautiful the output seems to be. The sitar scales as with a lot of non western tempering relies on the inharmonic qualities of the sounds created so again I'd find it really hard to believe any plug in could do that yet. Roland do some great synthesis really out of this world shit but nothing sounds as good as the real thing.
The resisdent Sitar nazi.
The resisdent Sitar nazi.
moose209 said:
Well, there is a guitar out there, it's called the Baby Sitar. And they made this thing that goes right before the bridge, that kinda rests very lightly against the strings, and it creates the sitar sound. There was one at this store a while back, it's pretty cool since you play it in normal guitar tuning (e a d g b e) and you play it like normal, it's just...it sounds like a sitar! It's very neat. Other than that, I have never heard of or seen anything else like it, and the synthesized ones (Roland, G-Major) never sound quite right.
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Tym_ex
Tymon
The sitar in my Roland VG-88 sounds pretty good to me... but I must confess I'm not an expert in sitar sounds...
Radd
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black sugar
The Burninator
In DigiTech's artist pedal series, there's one for the dude from Disturbed called 'The Weapon' - one of the efeects on that is a sitar emulator that is supposed to be good.
There are some demos HERE, click on the Don Donegan demos - if you can avoid laughing at the piratey-goon in the background.
Steve
There are some demos HERE, click on the Don Donegan demos - if you can avoid laughing at the piratey-goon in the background.
Steve
Keregioz
Kimon Zeliotis
I agree that simulating sitar with a guitar doesn't sound possible. I never played a sitar but i think that you can do some weird bends that you wouldn't be able to do in a nomal guitar.
... and while were on the subject
, i've used sitar in a song i did a while back. It's programmed of course and you can find it here :
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=346433
It's the one called oriental winds...
... and while were on the subject
, i've used sitar in a song i did a while back. It's programmed of course and you can find it here :http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=346433
It's the one called oriental winds...
moose209
Bottom chugger
You'd be able to do the bends on the guitar as long as your tension is very low - but again the real thing is sooo cool that it's just such a shame to emulate it - however if thats the sound you want go for it as it has it's own merits - I'm all for using the right tool for the job and being a right tool too.
Radd
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Keregioz said:I agree that simulating sitar with a guitar doesn't sound possible. I never played a sitar but i think that you can do some weird bends that you wouldn't be able to do in a nomal guitar.
... and while were on the subject
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=346433
It's the one called oriental winds...
That sounds pretty cool. Was it from this?
http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-163
or maybe this?
http://www.soundsonline.com/sophtml/details.phtml?sku=EW-164
I dig your music. Especially Nine, it's just so..........................passionate.
Bass sounds good also, what did you use for that?
Keregioz
Kimon Zeliotis
Radd said:
Thank you very much, i'm glad you liked it.
Actually both bass and sitar samples are soundfont files i downloaded from here: http://hammersound.net/cgi-bin/soundlink.pl
Radd
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Keregioz said:
mmmm...soundfont files....not familiar with these. I guess I would need this to get them to work in Digital Performer on my mac?
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23585
Keregioz
Kimon Zeliotis
Noumenon
Obsidian Productions
Any one of you guys tried a line6 variax... they have a really cool sitar model.... dunno if it's authentic but it does sound rad!
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Radd
Self Portrait
moose209 said:I was taught Sitar for three years when I was younger and I have one sitting in my loft - which is a tradegy as the instrument is bautiful. What makes a sitar sound great and not shit like on the beatles tracks are the constantly shifting resonance of the sympathetic strings that ring at an octave higher than the note being played on the main string. Trying to reproduce that on the guitar would be very very hard in my opinion. The process is very similar to FM synthesis - by adding waves together you get a fantastic range of possiblities depending on the temperature of the instrument, the quality of strings and the intonation. As always the older and simpler the design the more chaotic and beautiful the output seems to be. The sitar scales as with a lot of non western tempering relies on the inharmonic qualities of the sounds created so again I'd find it really hard to believe any plug in could do that yet. Roland do some great synthesis really out of this world shit but nothing sounds as good as the real thing.
The resisdent Sitar nazi.
So moose209, is the sitar much harder to play than guitar, basicaly the same or a different beast all together?
Do you only play the main strings while the sympathetic strings automaticaly ring from the vibrations of the main strings? The sympathetic strings are never picked/plucked?
"the constantly shifting resonance of the sympathetic strings that ring at an octave higher than the note being played on the main string."
This is'nt going on in The Beatles tracks? Why? Did they use a crap sitar?
Maybe that additional sound was overpowering and just did'nt sound right with the mixes/tracks?
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