Serious, SERIOUS fun!!

[redbaron]

http://guitarbackingtrack.com

[mickeymix]

cool site here's another..

http://www.guitarbt.com/

[pbbobkanobi]

Last time I checked Junkies made their own backing tracks...mwhauahaha.... good sites for when we are feelin lazy I guess

[meesh]

Cool....I wish I had any friggin clue how to use Intelliriffer to jam and record to those.

[rease101]

meesh, the crude way I use is I play the BT in itunes/media player and run the output of my headphone jack into my guitarport. downside is you have to record this into the songlayers (no bpm, can't add own drums) or compute the length of the riff. no biggie, then just jam in one big take over the whole song in the songlayers. to post you'll need a dummy riff up top (with drummer off), the length doesn't matter. OR use the intelliriffer and do it the elegant way; need to try it one of these days

[rease101]

p.s. you might have to have gearbox/podfarm on, just use a clean tone that won't affect the backing track (unless you want to). also, make sure your computer volume is turned up so the headphone output has enough juice. seems complicated but i'm used to it.

[redbaron]

But why? Amit's programs are tailor-made to do this! Just load a wav file, turn it into an rwr file, import it into a RW song - and there you go!

[meesh]

How do you convert mp3's to wav.'s though?

[rease101]

hey meesh, RB was right, I downloaded IR and it works great. it does the same thing I was doing with the cable, but easier. re mp3--> wav, you''ll need a file converter, they're many out there, they convert ogg's, wav's, mp3's and others from one format to another. most are shareware

[scott]

How do you convert mp3's to wav.'s though?

Grab a copy of Audacity - it's free!
Reaper or iTunes will also do it for you.
You can also 'right click' on the file you want to convert in Windows and do it that way.

[pooterpatty]

+1 on Audacity, that's the easiest way.

[atalwar]

hey guys,

for your own backing tracks you should know BPM and length etc.

for using imported backing tracks (unknown bpm etc) here is a way i use.

you need a sequencer Daw like ableton or some other like sonar etc.

you need some tool where you can tap your tempo to know the bpm even pod's/gerabox fx have that tap thing.


1.play your backing track. get in the groove, and tap your tempo you will get close enough to it and then can fiddle in daw.

2.get you mp3/wav track in your daw and set it's tempo to your tapped bpm/tempo and adjust with daw's metronome and you should be able to align the track.
once that is done, the daw timeline can show how many measures your track is. bounce the track to a wav and you can input that info in intelliriffer and load into rw.


audacity i dont think has a timeline that can show in beats and measures. but you can use it's generate click track feature to generate a metronome track if you know the bpm to check alignments etc. with 3-4 guesses you should be able to generate a accurate length click track.

~Amit

[Rotund]

Audacity can take MP3's split channels and invert one to do karoke also.