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by **kolargolo** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:02 pm

Hello
What I want to do is:
Record riff 1 (guitar 1) then record riff 2 (guitar 2) and have them playing together in a song.
Could anyone please help me with this?

by **cwight** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:45 pm

kolargolo. Do you mean (a) playing at the same time, or (b) after one another.

If it's b it's easy; just drag the riffs into the song line in the oder you want them. You can't actually have 2 riffs playing together, but you can have a rythm backing, or a riff, with drums and then layer guitar track on top of the backing track. All you do is press record and the riff will loop depending on how many bars you have set. So for example. Suppose you want to play a simple 12 blues. decide on your backing drums. Select Lead in, I normally use the metronome, and select auto-mute layers.

Play your chords for 12 bars. then hit stop. Select layers, and unmute the chords you have just recorded. Now hit record again and you can play a lead line over the chords you have recorded. If you do press stop the programme just goes back to the start again after the 12 bars. When you do press stop, go back to layers and unmute them to get the take you want. I then generally delete all the Layers I don't want.

You can make it much more complicated than this by using the info button to construct composite layers out of many takes, but that will come with time...

by **cwight** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:47 pm

Sorry that should have read 'If you do NOT press stop the programme just goes back to the start again after the 12 bars and keeps repeating (there is a limit to how many layers you can add to a riff, but its a lot).

by **Wedgebill** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:31 pm

Depending on your version of RW, using the instructions Mr CW has given you, you can record numerous layers on top of one another.

The number of layers in a riff with the demo version is four, I believe, and in standard RW the number is twenty four.

Have fun mate

Uncle Bill :cool:

by **Muddhole** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:43 pm

24 huh? My computer starts burping at around 8, 1/3 of the max.

Damn, time for a new computer.

by **dug** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:29 pm

How much ram do you have?
What buffer size are you using in the Audio Setup?

dug

by **mickeymix** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:24 pm

If I remember correctly you can have 26 layers per riff............that's what we had in a Rifflink collab a month or so ago..................

and Mudd..................stuttering after 8 layers ..... oh my! Time to upgrade bigtime.

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