Whammy bar/(tremelo?) simulation in reaper

Hi, Is there anyway to simulate a Whammy bar like the have on guitars or like some use on joysticks on pianos? I was told I should buy Wharmonator for Amplitube/IK Media or a Whammy by Digitech. I wasn't impressed that much with the demos of the Digitech whammy. The realy Whammy bar on guitar or even piano seems much more robust. I'm using Reallpc with Reaper and it's working like a champ. I'm also using a Clavinova CLP-311 MIDI piano that has no Whammy joystick. For the whammy bar I was thinking of setting some keys for octave range, then another for the duration and perhaps another for pulsation/effects within that duration. All using JS/Reaper. I don't know , does this make sense? Any help is appreciated! Thanks, john

yes thats indeed what i just wrote.

if you are using MIDI on the keyboard, tou already have pithbend. Just go into reaper and enter/edit pitchbend events till you are happy. It will be as good or as bad as the amount of time and effort you put into the editing. And of course this IS where the various minor niggles with smooth CC event entry rear their ugly heads again.

Using pitch bend etc never works because a real whammy bar, like on a Strat or a Floyd Rose, doesn't detune each string by the same amount. It's probably because of the different thickness and tension on each string. To simulate it you would need to be able to access each string separately and detune them based on how they detune in a real whammy situation. I forget if the low strings detune more or less than the higher strings.

It's vibrato not tremolo.

Paul Gilbert uses the Ibanez airplane flanger for vibrato effects using extreme settings. It's pretty neato. Lots of stuff is possible.

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