No guitar effects

I'm playing my guitar thru a mobile pre usb and am getting the "clean" sound from my guitar but none of the effects or amplifiers are coming out. I have monitoring on and my audio input is set to my mobile pre and audio out is set to built-in... Am I doing something wrong? Anyone please help!!

I should also add that when I record and play back the recording, the effects come thru but only on playback. I don't get a "preview" of what the effect will sound like.

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I've been using the GB Guitar Effects, but they take up soooo much memory that I can't add more instruments or tracks without it freaking out.
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PLEASE HELP!!!

You should use a external drive. You should lock tracks you're not working. More RAM is very helpful. And if you need record tracks dry and add effects later.

How do you monitor (turn on monitor) for Software guitar effects?

I can monitor the guitar effects when I select "Audio" instruments form the "New Tracks" browser by clicking on the "I" , but when I select "Software Insrument" the guitar sound comes out "clean" no matter which guitar I choose from the browser. Thank you.

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So in order to hear the effects of the "Software" instrument effect (say for instance "beatnik guitar" from the instrument browser) I need to use a MIDI equipped guitar? I am able to hear the effects of the pianos and keys using a USB controller. Is that considered MIDI? It doesn't make since that I would need a MIDI equipped guitar to monitor the software guitars etc..? Thanks again.
You don't need a MIDI equipped guitar to hear the +guitar instrument+, but you need something that transmits MIDI, such as your USB controller. That said, if you can hear the effects of the "pianos and keys" then you should hear the effects of the guitar instruments as well. If the guitar sounds "clean," then it's meant to sound that way. Beatnik Guitar, for example, is a twangy kind of slightly-overdriven tone, but you're hearing what you're meant to hear.
To go a little deeper, the reason why you have an "I" in the Audio channel (not an Audio Instrument), is so you can hear the sound of the input, whether that be a real guitar or some other audio signal that originates from outside the computer. An Instrument channel does not need an "I" button, since there is no "input" per se. The instrument itself is the input.

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Thanks very much. also I just read the answer for another post by another fellow on the same topic. I never knew that stuff about holding down the record button.
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Similar to what AudioEd posted for feedback, I'm interested in utilizing MainStage as an effects pedal board replacement.
I normally don't use a lot of effects (bass player), but have seen others on YouTube using their Mac's with other software
tools to augment their effects loop to their guitar rigs. If all goes well, I may branch into some interesting solo looping type gigs.
Using the looping capabilities as opposed to hard box loopers...
I have a Boss Line Selector (LS-2), and have ran a few tests and can get everything flowing thru the audio chanels to my bass rig.
My first test was using the headphone out to send the signal back to my LS-2, and mixed thru it to the amp rig.
Input I used a PreSonus Firebox (firewire). Will try an Apogee Jam, but I believe there will be limitations with that given the lack of channel controls on software.
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As far as I know, the only load on the CPU is the active patch. All the others are 'bypassed' according to the manual. My own experience backs up this claim. When I experiment with sounds - several synths with complex FX plugins - I usually put a large CPU meter on my layout to monitor the load. The load seems to be fairly similar whatever channel strips & synths I have. (NB normally I only have one synth in each set. If I have several synths in one set, that does change the load.)
FX including Amp Designer don't put as much load on the processor as synths as far as I can see.
Amp settings are a bit of a nuisance as you can't call up Amp Designer settings from a controller yet. That means if you need more than one amp setting, you will need more than one instance of Amp Designer. In that case, you might as well load it in each set's channel strip. You shouldn't notice any gain in CPU load.
Pedal Board: if you have a consistent set of pedals that you move between all the time, then put the board in an Aux channel. That way, you will only have to set up the controls once. My GP guitar pedal board layout is Wah, Overdrive, Delay, Chorus & Flange. All have Bypass buttons allocated & some have extra controls set e.g. Chorus & Flange parameters & Delay times. The Overdrive usually has a fairly comprehensive set of controls depending on the pedal I choose.
This allows me to change the sounds quite a lot with a minimum of controls.
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Hopefully will be a quick one - I'm using the Line 6 UX1 as a guitar/USB interface, and when I record my guitar in GarageBand and then play it back, I can hear the effects applied, but when I just play guitar with GB open (and with a certain amp selected), I don't even get a clean guitar sound coming through.
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I tried that earlier, but must have been something else missing - worked this time. Many thanks!

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Hi all,
Just started to use LPX. I am using an Apogee Duet audio interface to record my guitar but notice that I seem to have two sounds overlapping when recording my electric guitar: the preamp effects version (distortion in this instance) and a clean version.
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So you hear the signal both from the Apogee directly (clean) and what comes out of Logic (distorted).
So you must find out how to disable direct monitoring through the Apogee. Sorry, I don't know the Apogee in detail,
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Hi can anybody help me with this project I am doing it basically takes in a mic input and outputs the signal to the speakers I am using case selects so i can add different effects to the signal using matlab scripts at the moment it is taking in the signal but it is being delayed and i am getting serious feedback on the sounds output please help i am lost thanks i have attached my code.
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simulate sound in real time with effects and switch select.pt6.vi ‏206 KB

Hi PodgeRambo,
Thank you for contacting National Instruments. As CoqRouge points out this is a duplicate post. If you are still requiring assistance, you should reply to the original thread. I have included some tips about the forums that should help you with your application
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I wish you the best with your application.
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Applications Engineer
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What are the new guitar effects?

can't find what they are?
and are ther more software instruments and loops in the new version?

magellan42 wrote:
can't find what they are?
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#stompboxesgb6
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
and are ther more software instruments and loops in the new version?
i do not believe so (though i haven't made a direct comparison, there is no mention of new ones)

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I have my electric guitar plugged into an Apogee Duet (driver is up to date with Yosemite). After track is setup with effects, in an audio track or in a guitar preset track (I tried both), I can play and hear the guitar clean tones only without the effects I have put on the track, even though I have chosen guitar effects, like amp, pedals, etc... Only after recording during playback, not pre, can i hear the effects I have chosen. Why is this? So pre recording and during recording, a clean tone. Play back the track, it's all there with the amp and sounds I have chosen. Frustrated.

Excuse this short reply, rehearsal in 30 minutes.
It sounds like you need to first turn off the Direct monitoring of the Interface. Most audio interfaces have a "direct no-latency" monitoring that actually takes place before the audio even goes to Logic, it's done within the interface. Different companies have different names for it, low-latency monitoring, direct monitoring....etc.
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