ORCHESTROX
Play a line. Hear a string section.
WHAT IT DOES
OrchestRox listens to your guitar twice. The audio path shifts your actual tone up or down twelve semitones and blends it against the dry signal. The tracking path converts what you play into MIDI — detects the note, voices it into a chord that's diatonic to your key, optionally arpeggiates it in host tempo, and streams it to any orchestral instruments in your DAW.
Tracking is deliberately monophonic: play single-note lines and let the ENSEMBLE engine build the harmony. With CH SPLIT on, the voicing spreads across MIDI channels 1–4 — basses, celli, violas, violins — so a multitimbral sampler gives every section its own instrument.
In Logic it's native two ways: the plugin publishes a virtual MIDI source (OrchestRox Out) any instrument track can record, and the companion ORCHESTROX MFX lives in the MIDI FX slot so each section can carry its own voicing and arp.
THE CONTROLS
| CONTROL | WHAT IT DOES |
|---|---|
| PITCH / BLEND | Shift the guitar audio ±12 st; mix dry against shifted. At 0 st the plugin is transparent. |
| SENSE | Tracking sensitivity — up for light picking, down if noise triggers notes. |
| TRANSPOSE | Shifts the generated MIDI ±24 st, independent of audio pitch. |
| DYNAMICS | 0 = fixed velocity; 1 = velocity follows picking strength. |
| CC11 SWELL | Streams your playing envelope as expression — sections breathe with you. |
| LOGIC OUT | Publishes the virtual CoreMIDI source for Logic. |
| VOICING | Solo · Octaves · Power · Triad · Orchestra (basses −24, celli −12, violas +7, violins +12 + third). |
| KEY / SCALE | Thirds are voiced diatonically, the way an arranger would. |
| CH SPLIT | One voice per MIDI channel (1 = lowest … 4 = highest). |
| PATTERN / RATE | Arp Off (sustained chords) / Up / Down / UpDown / Random at 1/1–1/32 incl. triplets. |
| GATE / OCTAVES | Step length; pattern range over 1–3 octaves. |
| PRESETS | 10 factory programs + your own, saved to ~/Library/Audio/Presets. |
HOW TO USE IT
Insert OrchestRox on your guitar track. On a strings track, set MIDI input to OrchestRox Out and record-enable. Load String Ensemble — Orchestra voicing, CH SPLIT, CC11 — and play slow single notes. Dig in harder and the section swells with you.
Harp Cascade preset: Triad voicing arpeggiated Up at 1/16 over two octaves, gate 0.35. Hold one note per bar on a harp or pizzicato patch; change chords by changing notes.
CH SPLIT on → route ch1 basses, ch2 celli, ch3 violas, ch4 violins in one multitimbral sampler. Then put ORCHESTROX MFX on individual tracks to give violins a 1/16 arp while the basses sustain.
Octave Shimmer and Sub Growl are pure audio presets — +12 shimmer at 40% blend, or −12 weight at 55% — with the tracker off. Classic pitch-pedal territory.
Feed it clean or lightly driven guitar; heavy fuzz confuses the detector. Put drive and space after OrchestRox — which is exactly where SpaceRox goes.
Guitar → OrchestRox → SpaceRox. The orchestra follows your line over a downtuned shimmering wall — one take, whole arrangement.
