-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:45:08PM +0200, Oscar wrote: > Hi Florin, > > Jens Johansson ( http://www.panix.com/~jens/ ), was Yngwie's keyboardist for Heh, didn't know he was a nerd. Looks like he edits his own HTML. > the first albums and gets very convicing guitar-like solo sounds from his > Yamaha > DX7. So, maybe you can get good results using Hexter for the base sound, and > a > combination of effects from CAPS and/or TAPS, Line6 POD or whatever. I rather like this guitar sound from his webpage: http://www.heptagon.se/audio/011.mp3 (Yes, I have that record, and I know that is Allan Holdsworth :-) > > For guitar rythm riffs and chugga-chugga I think it's a lot easier to find a > guitarist :) Or just buy a guitar and learn to play. Rhythm playing is not hard. - -ken - ---------------- > 2007/10/11, Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > > Florin Andrei wrote: > > > I'm having trouble finding a good source of heavy metal guitar sounds on > > > Linux. Any suggestions? > > > > Forgot to mention, the reason why I'm looking for these sounds is that I > > listened again recently, after many years, to some songs by Yngwie > > Malmsteen on Youtube, and then a few metal-themed melodies of my own > > started to echo in my head. So that's the kind of sound I'm looking for. > > Classic-era metal - Malmsteen, Manowar. Maybe not quite as dark as > > Metallica but their guitars don't sound bad per se. > > Actually, I wouldn't mind a sound as aggressive as a thrash metal > > guitar, but it will not be used for that kind of music. > > > > I don't care if it's sampled or synthesized, as long as I can use it > > with Linux. I don't even care if it's hardware or software. As long as I > > can use a regular MIDI keyboard to play, it's fine. I'm a keyboard > > player. :-) > > Combinations such as routing a keyboard sampler (set on "unplugged > > guitar") through a hard or soft guitar distortion, are fine. > > > > -- > > Florin Andrei > > > > http://florin.myip.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-audio-user mailing list > > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > > > > > > -- > Oscar Morante > GPG: CA7417FF > > Loud pipes save lives. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHDo3Ne8HF+6xeOIcRAka9AJ4qv5jYCZ1ZpXNxl7ELWLb9uuGzsQCggzuH H4c7JaNAD29vanN/lfVJhow= =3ITJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user