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Phill Martin


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Whitewater Kansas, USA
Post  Posted 12 Jul 2008 12:23 am    
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I am picking up a pedal that is programmed with vst patch files and the one pedal it does not come with is a whammy pedal. does anyone know of a vst file that is a whammy pedal and if it is freeware or licensed. If it is licensed who sells the file. thanks
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Loren Claypool


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Mequon, WI
Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 4:38 am    
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The Madshifta is a free vst plug-in from Smartelectronix. You can find it for download at http://bram.smartelectronix.com/plugins.php?id=2. It's a lo-fi approach, perhaps not the final solution you're looking for, but what it does is interesting.

Can you describe this pedal a little more?
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Phill Martin


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Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 3:52 pm    
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Which pedal? The whammy would shift the pitch of the strings up or down simular to a pedal steel. The pedal I'm getting is the Zoom Zfx C5.1t Console it runs on Cubase LE the pedal is a guitar effects pedal meaning it simulates the amp, cab, and effects pedals. I'll be playing my laps through it into a amp that I can bypass the guitar input jack do to the effect algorithms assume a line connection rather than a amp connection, which is no problem I have a couple of small amps a vox da5 and roland micro cube. Hope this helps to explain what I'm going to be running and what patch I'm looking for.
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Loren Claypool


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Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 5:26 pm    
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Sorry for the confusion of my reply. I was asking which pedal used the VSTs, which you've answered, thank you. The Madshifta VST plug-in does a lo-fi pitch shift.

There's been another thread recently, http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=137450, around electronic pitch shifting for lap steel to emulate a steel. As has been stated there, a pedal steel allows the player to hold the pitch on one or more strings constant while bending the pitch on other strings. Pitch shifting pedals won't do that, but they will shift a single pitch, or in some cases a chord, from 1/2 step up to 2 octaves (or more).

You can, of course, use a combination of a looper pedal to capture a chord, sans the string you wish to raise or lower, to emulate a pedal steel with a lap steel. It's a powerful approach with a lot of potential. Like playing chess, though, you've got to think a few moves ahead!

As suggested in the other thread, you can bend a string behind the bar to emulate a pedal steel pretty convincingly - Junior Brown is amazing with this technique. Also, of course, is the slant approach.

Hope some of this is helpful. Thanks for the info on the Zoom pedal.
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Phill Martin


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Post  Posted 13 Jul 2008 9:22 pm    
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Thanks Larry for the reply, I had started the other thread too, seeking to find a pedal to do the trick, I have a Digitech ex-7 expression pedal and it has a whammy on it but the throw of the sweep is not that wide that is why I'm selling all of my pedals and going with the ZFX that I can program with most of all the pedals I already have and then some. thanks again for the input.
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