GP-10 - Soft Pads for Church

Started by JustinH, May 09, 2020, 04:33:31 AM

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JustinH

I'm a new member, and also new to the world of synth guitars.  I just purchased a GP-10 and have found a few things that I can use, but haven't found a lot of soft pad patches to use for a church setting.  I love that I can combine my guitar and synth sounds together, and have found a few patches where I can play on top of a nice soft pad.

Does anyone have any softer pad patches, or could give me some direction in building them?  My main guitars are a Crowdster and a Les Paul.  Both are fun to play through the GP-10.

Thanks for any help!

Justin

Brent Flash

Welcome to the group JustinH!  :)

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GP-10,with its focus on Guitar Modeling and Amp Modeling   has a tougher time delivering what you seek ( compared to a GR-55 which employs PCM Synth samples - missing on GP-10 ) ) 

But review the GP-10 User patch exchange

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=151.0

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=24578.msg178154#msg178154




JustinH

Thank you both for replying.  I tried most of the patches on this board.  The Atmospheric patch has a lot of very high pitch sounds when using with the guitar pickups, but I'll play around with it and see if I can learn to make it a bit more mellow.

The best I've found for my purpose so far is Tripad by Rhcole.

https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=20326.msg146558#msg146558

When I play it with the guitar pickups, I can blend in just enough of the synth pad to give a nice background pad behind the guitar.  This pad is very usable for me, so I'm eager to find more like it.  Or learn to program my own, of course!

Justin

Brak(E)man

Quote from: JustinH on May 10, 2020, 04:59:56 AM
Thank you both for replying.  I tried most of the patches on this board.  The Atmospheric patch has a lot of very high pitch sounds when using with the guitar pickups, but I'll play around with it and see if I can learn to make it a bit more mellow.

Justin

There's a high end pitshifter (and a automatic wha) that you turn off with ctl 1 ( and ctl 2)

You can also make the synth smother by turning down cutoff and resonance parameters.
(There's also a voice tuned to a 5th that you can turn off.)

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JustinH

What fun!  I've tried these patches, and have been fiddling with the settings.  I don't have any experience with synths or boss programming, so it looks like there is going to be a learning curve.  But I'm very impressed with the possibilities of layering a synth sound below my guitar sound. 

Thanks everyone for getting me started.  Wish I had a teacher here to show me the basics of synth programming, but already I can see it's going to be a useful tool for me. 

Justin

mrz80

I've found several patches that were "almost" what I needed for church, but required some tweaking. It's been several weeks since I've had the GP-10 out of the bag, and I recently lost most of my downloads to a flaky hard drive, so I can't recall right off what patches I was working from.

If you're going to dig into tweaking patches or eventually generating your own, you're def. going to want an editor, either Boss Tone Studio, or Gumtown's marvelous Floorboard program https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/files/GP-10/, available for Windows, MacOS X, and linux.
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