Bavanity wrote:Hey JP, I find this news very exciting as I have eyed your guitar stuff for ages but it was always (as in GBP) a little high for me, and i couldn't decide between it and the Impact soundworks stuff. This helps the choice considerably.
Therefore a question if I may. I have strumming/chord progressions covered with the 2 props a list products.. what i need now is something to write lead lines/melodies with when i want a guitar.
1) are your refills suitable for this task
2) Are there any velocity bend guitars?
3) Can you recommend something for an acoustic equivalent to do melodies/arps etc with? or do you have one planned?
cheers and thanks!
There were plans for four in the series, but sales were never strong enough to justify it. Guitars are very hard, and quite painful
, to do as a solo project. I do have an acoustic here (a Spanish actually), but I've no plans to sample it. Products like this are a 3-month full time job, and sadly I know from experience I'm not going to get 3 months pay from it.
In practice I use the leads all the time, and the Telecaster powerchords frequently; they are far, far superior to the—I think—terrible, bland, lifeless and unrealistic loops of the A-List series. Try alternating the up/down powerchords strokes then adding a slide up keyswitch for the change to the next chord note. Automate the fret noise release level. Try palm mutes during the verse then turn those off for the chorus and rhythm backing for a lead solo to let rip. Can't do any of that with A-List.
I don't tend to use the other "normal" chords much, they're handy to have don't entirely work: full chords are very hard to do in sampled guitars, especially without scripting; if I need them, like toward the end of the Oxygene IV demo above, I'll construct them by hand. I did once have a play around trying to construct a system with the samples using AutoTheory but my patience failed me.
For £25 I think the Perf series is very good, and the Tele in particular is the best guitar ReFill currently available - I've had them all at the tme and none of them were any good, hence why I did these. Played and programmed well and sitting in a mix they do fool a lot of listeners into believing they are real guitars, whereas I'm not convinced A-List can ever do that.
I still hope MusicLab will bring their stuff over to Reason, but those are something like £200 each. Worth it, though.
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re the 4 hours: The download system is a bit incorrect in its description there: four hours is simply how long the link is active once activated by the user, and not literally how long the user has to download from the moment the page appears.
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