My Raspberry Pi + Ardour + Guitarix + rackarrack + Alexa project, Thingamagig, is now for sale on Amazon.
If you’ve ever used Guitarix and thought, “I’m impressed and it can sound great, but it’s pretty laborious to dial in a useful tone”, I’ve saved you a bunch of work. By combining it with Ardour and Raspberry Pi, I’ve standardized the hardware, eliminated the setup, and created a huge library of presets based off famous amps, cabs and big chart hits from rock history.
The genesis of the idea was that I wanted to be able to play along to my favorite songs and have
- Automated tones
- Automated looping
- Lyric + chord prompts (because my memory is shit)
- 100% hands-free operation
So I built it. Here’s a video for those that missed the video I posted previously:
As always, let me know what you think!