Multitimbral Test

Download Song What if every string on your guitar could be a different instrument? Ok, so I really wouldn't even call this a songlet. It's more of a test. One of the cool things about hexaphonic pickups and at least this particular guitar->midi interface is that it has the ability to send string data on different MIDI channels for each string. This means that you can split each string onto it's own track that has its own instrument and other settings. So after a lot of mucking around, I finally figured out how to do this in Logic (it's neither obvious nor automatic). So here's the results of the little test I did. Note that these were not tracks recorded separately. This was all a couple of one pass recordings. No overdubbing, only some small post-recording touchups. Except for the drums. They're just a loop. And yes, I know the first part sounds a lot like Megadeth's Diadems.