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09-22-2023, 01:07 PM
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Trio plus
Anyone ever use one of these or have some thoughts about them? I was told you can create your own back up band with one of these.
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#2
09-22-2023, 01:51 PM
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Are you talking about the Digitech Band Creator? I've got one. The smaller one with the footprint a tad larger than the average effects pedal.
While it's not quite like a looper, the idea is similar. You [must] play a chord progression [relatively well] so the device "learns" the song. The pedal by default picks up the intended time signature and adds drums and bass. Depending on which style of music you dial up, the pedal can provide some tasteful patches to sweeten the guitar tone without an amp. You can select different time signatures and blend in or out the drum and bass track levels. It's pretty cool. I doubt I'd ever try to use one live but it's a great practice tool.
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#3
09-22-2023, 06:13 PM
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I have one. I like it. It's a great opportunity to play along with something else and jam when you are by yourself.
It also has a looper you can just loop and layer your loops have it learn your chords and then add its own variations of bass and percussion you can select different genres / feels to the chord progression change temp etc. You can also save off into multiple slots and you can make up backing sections in multiple portions of the same slot (ie have it learn your intro then your verse then your chorus and save them all into one slot and go between the sections. That said it isn't the easiest to master. The learning works best when you just play very basic rhythm with the chords it won't actually play your rhythm back anyway.
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09-23-2023, 08:28 AM
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It has some more advanced features that I've never dived into. What it's cool for is a simple way to get drum beats and bass lines going. I find it way more inspiring that a metronome. I've used mine for hours and hours, often with my electric guitars. I typically play something off the cuff to "train" it. I'm not looking for it to echo back a formed compositional idea I have, I'm looking for it to surprise me and make me think of how my playing can fit in with that.
In theory it could be used live. I wouldn't choose to. Too much to think about for me in that context. In theory, it could be used for demo recording or composition, but I almost never do, as multitrack computer recording is so much easier and more comprehensible to me.
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#6
10-06-2023, 04:18 PM
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thanks all for the replies and input!
I am going to get one of these now that I have heard what they can do. I watch a couple of you tube videos on just using GarageBand but it is way more complicate with garage band which does not attempt to listen to your recorded track and match a bass or drum backing track. With garageband you have to do a lot of manipulation which it appears that trio plus does for you automatically!
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#7
10-06-2023, 04:43 PM
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I tire pretty fast of anything that has drum patterns, preferring to do simple loops for making quick backing tracks.
If simple looping appeals to you at all, here's a video I made of how the process works. If you have an area set up it takes only a couple minutes to have something to play along with.
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