22 Jun 2015
You example is good but it is still a synth sound with distortion effect on it.
When you create a guitar, you really don't use midi. Midi is a binary system used as reference for tabs note and midi change as button on your device that can control a virtual software knob slider etc it can be complex
Only Yamaha still use re-sampled midi sound for is higher synthesizer because a wave form is easier to work, to get better versus a midi sound.
As for example reason don't use midi sound, but use midi message to make it possible as all other software to play with the RE and Vst sound engines.
My example is based on a real 7 string ibanez guitar that we have carefully recorded the basic note relative to a keyboard range.
The way to create then a realistic guitar sound will depend on our demand. As keyboard player, having a real guitar sound doesn't say it will sound real. We have to play them and compensate the fact that playing a guitar you can mute from anywhere the strings and as a velocity you can understand that a kind off velocity is applied with a real hand on stings to bloc and control de vibration of the stings.
-Tjat can be aplied with a good tube compressor, compressing the wave form to a mute
It can be aplied before or after the distortion effect module. After is better
Then you have the equalizer that you have to know simple basic about mastering a guitar sound, what frequency is to play with and the one we just don't need as bass between 0-80hrtz
Also the picking is hard to apply because a guitar player will let certain string vibrate, willingly or not it create the realistic guitar sound with real samples so use a pedal on your keyboard.
Many keyboard player think that playing a keyboard is easy, but depending on the sound you use, sometime we need more technique and it is not just applied to the fact of playing on the key but controlling effect as well
Then the hammer technique can be applied by less polyphony, that automatically switch to the next key pressed as a professional guitarist.
A lot is going on a book is made about the refills to how to use them for beginner and professional.
I have many album in the metal genre, and I don't always force myself to work on a song but what I do more is composing from A to Z without retweeking. I like a live playing experience where it is possible to play them songs.
I wont put a lot of my hard work song for free also....
A real guitar sample, is way better than a synth sound with dst, for realism, it is important to respect the exact frequencies and wave form vibration of the guitar.
If it is done correctly you can easily make a synthGuitar dst as great as the solo guitar in Stratovarius, Halloween, rhapsody of fire, dream theater and so on. That come with the Refills.
go see prominy V-Metal, it is a Vst and nothing can be better than that. And we would like to have it in reason of course...
Everything logical is in the refills of course and also there will be pro.tools.tips Tu use them in a studio processing way.
But, as I say, if is focused before on the playing live, and fast, comprehensive so a musician can use is idea on the go
Ultimately you can pay or ask or do it yourself, playing a real guitar to (Track) the one played with the keyboard. Because you will never achieve as a real guitar no mater what.
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