For one of the songs CSWO are playing on Friday week, the conductor would like me to play the guitar part (chords) rather than duplicating the bass part already provided by tuba and other instruments. I could bring a guitar for the purpose but I’m already bringing a second amp and other gear to support a singer so I don’t want to weigh myself down too much.

What I think I will do instead, after some testing today, is to use the “polycapo” setting on my Helix LT. It can change the pitch but, compared to many pitch change tools, has fast tracking and can cope with chords (polyphony) as well as single notes. After all, a guitar is a similar instrument to a bass but simply pitched an octave higher.

We didn’t run the song tonight but I expect we will next week… by which point, I hope to have written the chords in and figured out how to voice them.