Live Guitar Effects, i am a total newbie Options

[rfritz]

Hello all, I am a total newbie to this forum and I have no idea if I'm even asking this question in the right place but... heres my story

I am a guitar player in a band and I use a few different effects pedals in my live shows. I sometimes record in Garageband to put ideas down, and I use the effects in the computer itself rather than my own. I have always thought it would be so cool if my only effects processor was my laptop and some sort of pedalboard like this one here: http://www.behringer.com/FCB1010/index.cfm?lang=ENG .

Is there any way to do this? Like, plugging my guitar into the computer, and then using some program that adds effects onto the live sound and is connected via firewire or usb to some foot controller?

I have always seen this as the future of guitar effects, but maybe its very much the present! Let me know!

[eternaltedium]

Hi,
I'm not a guitar player and thus can't offer advice from my own experience but yes, what you want to do is possible. There are even dedicated software to do exactly just that. Some sites that might be of interest to you:

Dedicated Guitar effects with interfaces from Line 6:
http://www.line6.com/products/computerbased/

The built in guitar amp simulator in Logic Pro:
http://www.apple.com/logicpro/distortioneffects.html

Amplitube: A guitar amp modeling and FX program with 14 Preamp and 14 EQ models
• 7 Power-Amp models
• 16 Cabinet models
• 6 Microphone models
• 21 Stomp Effect models
• 11 Rack Effect models
• High-precision Tuner
• 2 Guitar rig chains:

http://www.amplitube.com/

And yes you can control these with real stomp boxes that send out midi controller messages, for a selection check this link:

http://www.bananas.com/productlist2.asp/su...IDI-Controllers

Hope this helps!

[mortalengines]

Native Instruments' Guitar Rig is pretty much there already with your idea & has its own input & foot controller. However, Ableton Live would be pretty cool with the same general idea using your Behringer food assembly. You will need an interface to run your guitar into (Preferably a Firewire interface...Presonus has some cheap ones... & a DI box if your interface doesn't have a HI-Z input (but many interfaces do & they aren't that expensive). Your behringer pedal board is midi only (no USB port that I can see) so you will need to think about an interface that has midi ports as well (you can either find a firewire one that has those already in addition to a couple of audio inputs or buy a separate one...M-audio has midi/USB interfaces for 50 bucks). Using Ableton you can quite easily assign effects on/off & other parameters to your foot controller & set it up to loop on the fly as well...effectively becoming your own one man band, or as many guitarists you want to be at any given time. Or, you could just save yourself the hassle & spend the 300 plus dollars on NI's Guitar Rig & have it all set up real easy.