Hey guys, in this video we’re going to go over how to use the Eleven Rack editor.
This is a standalone piece of software that allows us to edit the Eleven Rack rigs and
sounds, and a few of the other settings.
We can use this to save rigs to our computer, manage the inputs, and even load different
Eleven Rack rigs that we downloaded from the internet.
Before starting this video, just make sure you’ve checked out the previous ones in
this series where we covered setting up the Eleven Rack and editing a rig on the Eleven
Rack itself.
To get this setup, we first need to download and install the Eleven Rack Editor from Avid’s
website.
This won’t automatically install when we connect the Eleven Rack.
Then we can run the program with the Eleven Rack detected.
If it’s not detected, try rebooting the Eleven Rack, checking the connection to your
computer, and rebooting your computer if necessary.
Now that it’s setup, let’s go through what the Eleven Rack Editor can do for us.
This software can control basically everything that we can from the Eleven Rack, but it can
make it easier to use in some situations.
In the top left, we can access the tuner and user options.
With the tuner, we’ll see the guitar tuner on the computer screen and can tune from here,
instead of looking at the Eleven Rack screen.
With the user options clicked, we’ll get more options down below, such as for our amp
settings and signal routing.
Below that, we can select our Rig Input.
We can set it to our guitar, microphone, re-amp or a few other things.
I use the guitar for the first recording, and re-amp when I’m re-processing the signal.
On the top right, there’s the buttons to mute the headphones and main outputs, and
to adjust the master output level.
This will affect the recording level as well, so be careful of that.
The main section down below changes our signal chain.
The first section on the left is the rig selector.
We can use this to choose a rig, and the button to the right allows us to save the rig over
another rig.
Next is the TRUE-Z, which affects how the input is detected, and makes the Eleven Rack
respond more like a guitar amp than some other direct boxes and amp simulations would allow.
Next we have the rig volume, tempo, and what the expression pedal controls if there is
one connected.
Down below, we have all our effects and amps.
The top part of the table, where it says the category of effect we’re using, can be clicked
to turn it on, or bypass it.
When it’s not colored in, it’s bypassed.
When colored in, it’s active.
The drop down below allows us to choose what the effect is in that slot, so we can select
the different distortions, delays, and modulation effects like we did on the Eleven Rack itself.
We can reorder the parts of the signal chain like we did on the Eleven Rack.
To do this, just click and drag them.
When we click on a section of the signal chain to select it, it will appear in the bottom
of the window.
With the Eleven Rack Editor, all we need to do is click and drag on the knobs to change
the settings.
The amp and cabinet settings are a little different.
If we select those, it will show our amp and cabinet in the bottom of the window.
Above the amp, we’ll see the controls for the gate threshold and release.
Click and drag these to change them to cut down on some of the noise.
Then there are two dropdowns to select the amp type and the cabinet.
With User Options enabled, we can choose to link the amp to its corresponding cabinet.
On the right we have the output level control.
The amp has controls such as bypass, a bright switch, gain, volume, and eq.
Down below we have speaker controls where we can bypass, add speaker breakup, change
the microphone, and set the microphone to on or off axis.
Now let’s cover how to use additional rigs for the Eleven Rack that we’ve downloaded
off the internet.
There are many websites available that provide specific rig downloads you can use, and many
of them are designed to match an artist’s rig as best as possible.
The quality of these rigs will vary, but there are a lot available to choose from.
First find the one you want to use online and download it to a folder on your computer.
From the Eleven Rack Editor, click the button to load a rig.
Then go to Load from Computer and select the file.
The Eleven Rack Editor will load it as active.
Then you can choose to save over another rig if you would like to with a button on the
right.
This allows pretty much unlimited different rigs to be used with the Eleven Rack, even
if they can’t all be stored on it at the same time.
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