EurekaPROM 2 - from Eureka Sound

Eureka Sound has released the EurekaPROM version 2!

As you know, this blog has been very supportive of the EurekaPROM, and the EurekaPROM 2 brings several improvements - including new configurations for the Kemper Profiling Amp and the AXE-FX II. It also includes a new "split mode" where you can use effects and change presets without changing modes.

Watch the following video to see the EurekaPROM v2 being installed and used with the Eleven Rack

Check out all of the new features at:
http://www.eurekasound.com

104 FURY Eleven Rack Rigs + Effect Presets

104 "FURY" Eleven Rack Rigs

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Required!


FURY rigs are high-gain style rigs, most are tuned to be razor sharp and cut through a dense metal mix. FURY rigs include 6 different amps:

Mesa Mark II C+ = M2

Mesa Dual Rectifier = MDR

Bogner Ecstasy = XTC

Soldano SLO-100 = SLO

Avid/Digidesign Custom Modern Super Overdrive = SOD

Avid/Digidesign Custom Modern Overdrive = MOD

Several cabs and mics are also used on each amp model. It's pretty easy to figure out the naming method used.

Example: "FURY MDR-65W-7" shows we are using a rig from the FURY pack, it is the Mesa Dual Rec amp (Treadplate Modern), 4X12 65W cab, and the Dyn 7 mic.

Example: "FURY XTC-B30-67" shows we are using a rig from the FURY pack, it is the Bogner Ecstasy/XTC amp (RB-01b), 2X12 B30 cab, and the COND 67 mic.

All the rigs follow the same logical layout. It makes it easy to see what rig you are choosing, quickly.
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The FURY rigs share a similarity with the "A is A", "Seppuku", and "Futile" rig packs. Like those, FURY rigs have a Multi-Chorus ON by default to add a nice width to your tone. Like the "Seppuku", and "Futile" rig packs, the FURY rigs have a FLANGER ON by default that I call a "cab changer". Where they differ is they do not include a Compressor or any EQ. All FURY rigs are set up in the same basic way:

Phaser>Green Overdrive>AMP/CAB/MIC>Flanger>Multi-Chorus>Delay>Reverb

Of those, the Flanger, Multi-Chorus, and Reverb will be ON by default (as well as the VOL and AMP/CAB blocks of course)

Turn OFF the Flanger and have a basic "A is A" type rig. Try turning ON/OFF effects or use right out of the box, tweak as you wish.
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The FURY rigs come in 3 different "flavors" - there will be 3 folders. All the folders contain the same exact amp settings and effect settings, the only difference is the Multi-Chorus setting.

"1 - 104 FURY Eleven Rack Rigs - Chorus 100 6" Means that the Multi-Chorus across all rigs is set at 100% width and 6 voices.

"2 - 104 FURY Eleven Rack Rigs - Chorus 75 6" Means that the Multi-Chorus across all rigs is set to 75% width and 6 voices.

"3 - 104 FURY Eleven Rack Rigs - Chorus 80 3" Means that the Multi-Chorus across all rigs is set to 80% width and 3 voices.

I would suggest you start with folder 2, the rigs are wide, but not as wide as folder 1. Folder 1 would
be the widest rigs, and folder 2 would be a bit less width, more focused, and folder 3 would be a even less width and even more focused while still being wide compared to dry rigs.

The 3 basic Multi-Chorus settings are included in a separate folder. So you can import those and change Multi-Chorus settings on the fly with ease to see which settings you like best, then simply choose the folder and LOAD ALL RIGS FROM COMPUTER.

By having the effects settings files and the rigs already saved with each setting, it makes it quick and easy to load up exactly what you want and get back to playing.
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EFFECT PRESET FOLDER

Included with the FURY rigs pack is effects settings that were used in making these rigs. There will be a FLANGER, MULTI-CHORUS, and REVERB folder.

These were included to make it easy to change settings by using the "Effect Preset" drop down in the Eleven Rack on-screen editor.

216 WAR Eleven Rack Rigs

216 "WAR" Eleven Rack Rigs

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Required!


WAR rigs are RAW rigs, with "war" being an anagram for "raw". Why not just call them "RAW" - well, it just didn't sound "metal" enough. ;)

WAR rigs are different than other packs. They were made to get back to a simpler setup, just an amp, cab, and mic. All effects are bypassed by default, though, all effects do have a basic setting already applied. All rigs are setup in the same basic way:

Phaser>Green DIST>AMP/CAB/MIC>Flanger>Multi-Chorus>Delay>Reverb

Only the AMP/CAB/MIC will be active by default.

Unlike all other packs, WAR rigs are set to be MONO through the whole path, just like you would have by placing one mic on a guitar cab. So if you play these rigs in standalone through headphones or a Stereo Track in Pro Tools, they won't sound as impressive as an "A is A" rig ect.... However, try them in a mix and they should set pretty well with minimal tweaking. Try recording one pass on a mono track, pan full Left, then record another pass on another mono track and pan full Right - this is the technique you should be using with most guitar tracks whether the output is stereo
or mono, of course it all depends on the track, but it's a general rule.

WAR rigs use 6 different amps and almost all cabs and mics. Each amp will have a preset with several different cabs and different mics on each cab.

This was done to minimize how much tweaking needed to be done. For example if you load "WAR-M2 65W 7N" but you would like to see what this amp sounds like with a Classic 30 cab and Dyn 57 mic OFF Axis, you could take the time to switch those settings, which is easy enough, OR simply scroll to the rig with those exact settings which would be "WAR-M2 C30 57F"

By having each rig set in this way its easy to call up exact equipment presets, then you can tweak from there.

54 ORANGES Pack #2 Eleven Rack Rigs

54 "Oranges" Eleven Rack Rigs - PACK #2

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Required!


Like the first Oranges pack, this set was made with Blues, Jazz, and clean tones in mind. However, this pack covers more ground with rigs/presets suitable for country, some classic rock, Alt-Rock, Indie Rock, and other blues inspired generas. The tones range from clean to full creamy overdrive.

All of the included rigs were made using an EC-1000 with the neck pickup (EMG 60). Many of the rigs sound just fine using the bridge pickup as well, and when you do that you will get a more treble and twangy tone.

Every Effects Slot has been set, most are ON by default, but try turning them ON/OFF to your liking. A Green Overdrive is used in every "DIST" slot. The layout of all rigs are similar, every rig has Dyn Comp, Flanger, Multi-Chorus, and Reverb ON by default.

Tweak these rigs to fit your style and guitar. For example you may want to try switching ON/OFF a Bright Switch, adjusting Reverb, turning on Delay, adjusting gain, ect....

Don't play the blues, be original, play the Oranges!

20 FREaK Eleven Rack Rigs

20 "FREaK" Eleven Rack rigs/presets

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Required!

FREaK rigs are strange rigs that just don't fit into a standard category. They can be clean or distorted. They may be used for small passages, sound beds, intros/outros, effects, ect.....

Every effect slot has been set, even if a slot is OFF by default, that effect parameter has been set.

Content List

FREaK - 001 through 020

Manual/Hard Reset - Eleven Rack

In a previous post we looked at how to do a reset of the Eleven Rack from the User Options menu. But what if your Eleven Rack is freezing at boot and you can't access the menu?

In that case, you have two options for a manual reset of the Eleven Rack by holding down certain buttons during power on.

Both of these methods will be demoed in the following video, so keep reading.

Factory Reset of the Eleven Rack

In the user options of the Eleven Rack you have the ability to "Reset Memory"

There are plenty of reason why you may want to restore your Eleven Rack to factory condition, such as for troubleshooting a problem, or simply because you just want to start fresh.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW-

When you "Reset Memory" you WILL lose all rigs in the user section. You will also be reverting all user settings you have made to the factory defaults.

You will NOT lose your currently installed firmware. When the Eleven Rack is reset, it resets to the factory settings for the currently installed firmware. So you will not lose your Eleven Rack Expansion Pack (aka Firmware 2.x)

You will be able to see all of this in the following video.

BEFORE RESETTING, BACKUP ALL RIGS!

Pro Tools 11.0.0 with the Eleven Rack - Part 1 & 2

In testing the Eleven Rack with Pro Tools 11, pretty much everything was working fine.
(watch the videos below to see this in action)

I was having a problem on my system that was not allowing me to embed rig settings in the track. After several responses, including from Avid Customer Service, it was confirmed that embedded rigs are supposed to work.

After much research I noticed that in my MIDI input devices, I had 2 Eleven Rack entries listed.

I found that un-checking the "Eleven Rack" and just leaving "2-Eleven Rack [Emulated]" checked, I was able to get embedded rigs!

Not only that, but no longer did I get the "Eleven Rack #2 Cannot Connect" error. (see video 1 to see this error)

After relaying this information, Avid Customer Service was nice enough to check PT11 and the 11R with a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro. They said that they were not getting the "2-Eleven Rack [Emulated]" entry, they only had "Eleven Rack". (see video 2 to see solution in action)

They suggested that I check in Device Manager to see if I had any drivers that could be causing emulated MIDI ports.

Pro Tools 11 RELEASED!

Yesterday, after months of waiting, Pro Tools 11 was finally released!

The bad news is that just as the preliminary info stated, the Eleven Rack on-screen editor is currently not available in Pro Tools 11. BUT, with Pro Tools 11 we can co-install 10.3.6 and use the editor in PT 10.3.6 until there is a fix for PT11.

There is a bit of good news, while the full on-screen editor is not available in PT11, the mini editor is still available in the top left of the EDIT Window.

Hopefully there will be a resolution for this soon, but until then, use PT 10.3.6 for the 11R Editor.

Get more info about Pro Tools 11 at:

www.avid.com

http://www.avid.com/products/Pro-Tools-Software

If you want to SEE Pro Tools 10.3.6 and Pro Tools 11 being installed, activated, opened, AND other Pro Tools 11 stuff - check out the Pro Tools Quick Tips blog and the YouTube Channel linked in the toolbar above.
http://protoolsquicktips.blogspot.com

11R Driver v1.1.6 for Windows on PT LE8 and PT9

So yesterday I posted about the new 11R driver 1.1.6 and mentioned that the documentation only listed PT 10.3 and higher. So today I tested the new driver with PT LE8 and PT9. Both worked.
I don't know if the driver is officially approved for LE8 and PT9 because they are not mentioned on the 1.1.6 download page, but they worked for me.

www.Avid.com/drivers

Eleven Rack Driver v1.1.6 for Windows OS

Today, Avid released a new driver for Eleven Rack users on Windows. Driver 1.1.6 includes a new UI, official support for Windows 8 and several fixes.

Watch the following video to see it being installed and in use:

Pro Tools 11 Announcement Came Early!

Well, Avid just put up a video confirming suspicions that PT11 was indeed going to be announced at NAB 2013, which starts tomorrow!

Checkout the short video to see all of the improvements:
http://apps.avid.com/protools11/

NAB 2013 Starts Tomorrow! April 8th

NAB starts tomorrow. Any announcements made will be posted on this blog and/or the Pro Tools Quick Tips blog. So be sure to check back to keep up with anything that is announced.

FART - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

FART Rigs Pack

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Toot Required!

Free Little MicroShift plug-in from SoundToys

SoundToys is giving away Little MicroShift. Be sure to get it before March 29 when the promo ends!

You will need an iLok and iLok Account.

Get Little MicroShift for Free HERE-

22 FUTILE Pack #2 - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

22 FUTILE Rigs PACK #2 for the Avid Eleven Rack

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack REQUIRED!

FUTILE Rigs are heavy metal style rigs, however they are different than other rigs.

Like the "A is A" rigs, the FUTILE rigs use a Multi-Chorus to create a wide field of sound, also, more reverb is used to add some depth and space to help create an "amp in the room" sound.

But what makes these rigs different is the use of the Flanger, which is used to change the frequency response of the tone. The Flanger is used to change the frequency response to tones that you can achieve through an Oversized cab or dual mic'ing a cab and adjusting the phase relationship between the two mic's.

The result is kind of like a comb filter on the low end and mids that produce a more raw, open sounding rig. The way I describe it is the mids sound "hollow" or "open".

While the chorus and flanger are meant to stay ON, feel free to turn them OFF.

Turn ON the Green Distortion to focus the low end and add more bite.

Adjust GAIN/DRIVE to suit taste.

Tweak further as you wish.

FUTILE Rigs are similar to "SeppuKu" Rigs, except that SeppuKu Rigs use a Compressor where the FUTILE Rigs use an EQ.

19 SeppuKu Rigs - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

19 SeppuKu Rigs for the Avid Eleven Rack

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack Required!

SeppuKu Rigs are heavy metal style rigs, however they are different than other rigs.

Like the "A is A" rigs, the SeppuKu rigs use a Multi-Chorus to create a wide field of sound, also, more reverb is used to add some depth and space to help create an "amp in the room" sound.

But what makes these rigs different is the use of the Flanger, which is used to change the frequency response of the tone. The Flanger is used to change the frequency response to tones that you can achieve through an Oversized cab or dual mic'ing a cab and adjusting the phase relationship between the two mic's.

The result is kind of like a comb filter on the low end and mids that produce a more raw, open sounding rig. The way I describe it is the mids sound "hollow" or "open".

While the chorus and flanger are meant to stay ON, feel free to turn them OFF.

Turn ON the Green Distortion to focus the low end and add more bite.

SeppuKu Rigs are similar to FUTILE Rigs, except that SeppuKu Rigs use a Compressor where the FUTILE Rigs use an EQ.

20 REPRISAL - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

20 REPRISAL Rigs for the Avid Eleven Rack

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack REQUIRED!

REPRISAL Rigs are solo/lead style rigs. They use reverb and chorus for a wide, airy spectrum, and a flanger to change the tone to a more 'open' and 'raw' sound.

Adjust gain and reverb to fit the track. If you like the level of the reverb, but the notes do not have enough attack, then increase the PRE-DELAY setting.

Turn ON the Green Distortion to add more bite and edge.

Tweak further as you wish.

14 FUTILE Rigs - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

14 FUTILE Rigs for the Avid Eleven Rack

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack REQUIRED!

FUTILE Rigs are heavy metal style rigs, however they are different than other rigs.

Like the "A is A" rigs, the FUTILE rigs use a Multi-Chorus to create a wide field of sound, also, more reverb is used to add some depth and space to help create an "amp in the room" sound.

But what makes these rigs different is the use of the Flanger, which is used to change the frequency response of the tone. The Flanger is used to change the frequency response to tones that you can achieve through an Oversized cab or dual mic'ing a cab and adjusting the phase relationship between the two mic's.

The result is kind of like a comb filter on the low end and mids that produce a more raw, open sounding rig. The way I describe it is the mids sound "hollow" or "open".

While the chorus and flanger are meant to stay ON, feel free to turn them OFF.

Turn ON the Green Distortion to focus the low end and add more bite.

Tweak further as you wish.

16 Apology Rigs - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

16 Apology Rigs

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack REQUIRED!

Apology Rigs are Solo/Effected Lead style rigs. They were made to sound wide, airy, and to cut through. While they were made for lead parts, use them for whatever you prefer.

Every effects slot has been set, try turning on/off the effects and tweak further as you wish.

AVID at NAB 2013

Avid will be at NAB 2013 which starts on April 8th, and continues through the 11th.

According to the Avid website we will see,

• State-of-the-art demos
• Game-changing product announcements
• and more....

Will anything new for Pro Tools or the Eleven Rack be announced?
If so, we will be sure to cover it here on the Eleven Rack Users Blog, so be sure to check back!

And check out the Avid NAB page:
http://apps.avid.com/events/2013/nab2013/
www.avid.com

21 SOD ORB Eleven Rack Rigs

21 SOD ORB Rigs for the Eleven Rack

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack REQUIRED!

SOD ORB rigs are loosely based on a popular German made amp.

Adjust the GAIN to suit your needs.

Green Distortion:
The DIST block is OFF by default, turn it ON to add more Focus and reduce Bottom.

Bright/Normal:
Each amp is set to Bright by default. Flip the switch to Normal to add Bottom, flip back to Bright to add Focus.

Multi-Chorus:
The MOD block has a Multi-Chorus ON by default. This add width and an open-ness to the sound. Turn it OFF to add Focus, turn it ON for an Open, Wide sound.

Tweak further as you wish.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND VIEWS!

We finally hit 100,000+ views of the Eleven Rack Users Blog, thanks to everyone who has visited the site, donated, and supported the blog.

It's been awhile since new rigs were added, but more rigs are coming - so be sure to come back!

19 SU(5) Bass Rigs Pack #3 - Eleven Rack Custom Rigs

19 SU(5) Bass Rigs PACK #3

Eleven Rack Expansion Pack REQUIRED!

All effect slots have been set, even if a slot is off by default, parameters have been set.

All rigs were made using an Ibanez K-5 Bass with Active Pickups.
The K-5 has an on-board EQ where you can dial in/out Highs, Mids, Lows. So these Rigs may or may not sound the same for you depending on your Bass. The on-board EQ was set to be flat when making the rigs, so if your bass is setup different you may need to adjust some parameters. Also since the EQ was set to flat, the dry output of the bass is lower than if everything was set to 10 - so if when playing these rigs you are getting a distorted sound (overloading the amp input), you can turn down the input volume/gain on the bass amp.

UPDATE: Load All Rigs from Computer for Rig Downloads

A few months ago, we started including a "Load All Rigs from Computer" option for rigs packs that contained 10 or more rigs. At that time, for consistencies sake we thought it would be best to include a normal XML file that loads 104 rigs. Just like what happens when you Save All Rigs to Computer.
So since no single rig pack contains 104 rigs, we would include enough "unused" rigs to fill out the 104 slots. Also you would have a "Load All Rigs from Computer" folder which contained a copy of all the rigs and the XML file.

After some comments and thought, we have decided to change the way we include the Load All Rigs option.

So, for any rigs posted from now on, unless noted, there will be just one copy of the rigs, there will NOT be a "Load All Rigs from Computer" folder, and there will NOT be any -unused- rigs. The XML file will be included in the same section as the rigs. The XML file will be edited to only load the number of rigs that the pack contains. Meaning that if a rig pack contains 25 rigs, if you Load All Rigs from Computer, then it will only load the 25 rigs starting from A1. Any rigs that are already on the Eleven Rack after the 25 rigs will be untouched.

This only applies to rig packs posted from this date and forward. The rig packs that have already been posted will stay the same.

We hope you like the new method. If not or if so, leave a comment and let us know.

Remember to ALWAYS backup all your rigs before loading any new rigs - whether you are loading one rig at a time or loading all rigs at once. ALWAYS have a full dump of your preferred rig setup saved to your computer/cloud.

Winter NAMM 2013 Starts Soon!

Winter NAMM 2013 starts January 24th and continues through January 27th, 2013.

Avid will be there. Is it possible that something new will be released for the Eleven Rack?

The blog will be updated with any new info that is applicable to the Eleven Rack, so be sure to come back to the blog and see if there is any good news.