How can i make a Wah effect with Live's Audio effects?

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jersey8five6
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How can i make a Wah effect with Live's Audio effects?

Post by jersey8five6 » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:20 am

i'm using Reason as Rewire slave and i was wondering how i can apply a Wah effect to one of Live's Audio tracks using its stock effects.

can anybody help me out?

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Post by tiedyetrogdor » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:37 am

Are you running Live 7? Try using an auto filter effect and sidechaining the track to itself. Turn the gain and attack way up. It's sorta rough, so I would experiment with other stuff too.

jersey8five6
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Post by jersey8five6 » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:49 am

na i'm usin live 6, i wasn't plannin on upgrading to live 7 cuz i wanna get reason 4 first, but maybe i'll check it out

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Post by Lo-Fi Massahkah » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:13 am

jersey8five6 wrote:na i'm usin live 6, i wasn't plannin on upgrading to live 7 cuz i wanna get reason 4 first, but maybe i'll check it out
Then use the autofilter - either automating the cutoff or turning on the LFO.

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Post by 4ace » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:45 pm

Def. use autofilter.I just used this effect on a track recently by using the contrlos to semi quantise the wah.......tasty!
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Post by jersey8five6 » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:10 am

aiight thank all of u guys!

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