First off, I have searched through this forum, and elsewhere, but have not found the answer to my question, which probably means it is very basic and supposedly obvious.
I am running Win 7, 64bit, with Audacity 2.0.0. I have an audio interface and an electric guitar.
My aim is this: to be able to use all these cool plug-ins or vst to get a guitar sound I enjoy and be able to play “live” without having to record a clean track and then add the distortion and other effects.
This is important as I don’t enjoy strumming an “unplugged” electric guitar but want to be able to fool around with the tone I enjoy before choosing to record.
→ Is it possible to do this with audacity, and how?
I already have several vst thingies, such as the lepoulin.
Thanks for taking the time to guide me through this and apologies for being such a beginner at this.
My aim is this: to be able to use all these cool plug-ins or vst to get a guitar sound I enjoy and be able to play “live” without having to record a clean track and then add the distortion and other effects.
Audacity is a post-production program and doesn’t do anything live.
It’s a Feature Request.
There was a clue in the first video:
“put the dlls (plug-ins) into the VST (plug-ins) folder of your audio sequencer…”
The words that he missed out were:
“Windows” - Not the only (and arguably not the best) operating system on the market, but the most common.
“ASIO” - The Windows sound system is generally slow, clunky and has limited routing capability. For real time audio work you need something better, like a Mac, a Linux machine, or ASIO (Windows).
You may also notice that no-one mentioned “Audacity”.
Audacity is a terrific free, open source tool for doing all your editing after you have exported the recording from your real-time audio sequencer.
As this is the Windows forum, have a look at “Reaper”. It’s not free, but it is inexpensive and has a terrific “trial version” and has good support for VST plug-ins and ASIO for real-time audio sequencing.
