Good discussion. Here’s the thread Lorne mentioned on gate : Send a different PC to a plugin for each Song or Rack state?
We don’t have a keys player right now and I needed some distraction a few weeks ago, so I tried MG’s demo again. IMO it’s much better than it was about 6 months ago so I took the plunge. We do Ride by 21 Pilots and I always felt funny doing the synth parts on guitar, even though I did get some pretty synthy tones… so as a test I tried to get it gig worthy.
Short story, by bypassing MG2’s gate and using another I got better results. Is it flawless and 100% gig-ready? No,at least not for me, but there are some folks on Youtube that seems to do pretty darn well. It takes a lot of time to get setup correctly, and I’m learning that every instrument or vsti I play will probably respond differently, requiring different gain and gate settings. Your guitar is crucial too… just search and there are some good tips out there. I’ve found sforzando actually works rather well for me. Oddly, synth 1 works great on simple lead stuff but on elec piano chords I had to give up. I haven’t gigged with it yet, but I am now able to get through Ride without a single false note. But for a song more complex I don’t know if I’d risk it.
Piano seems to be the hardest for me… very tricky to get clean chords when fretting off for the next chord. Of course, finger picking is key too, at least for me. Anyway, it’s a fun distraction, and maybe as I continue to mess with it it can become more useful in gigs.
Enjoy, and stay safe,
Tom