how to just get a guitar chord strumming sound with virtual instruments?

[elmo555]

so how do you get a guitar strumming sound in protools? so for example like say i wanted the sound you get when u pick up a guitar and just start strumming c chord? how do you replicate this with pro tools virtual instruments???

my setup is just a maudio midi keyboard connected to protools, so everytime i try to use xpand and select one of the guitar sounds im limited by what i can do with the keyboard, all i can play is single notes due to the keyboard, its like impossible to get that strumming sound?

any way of doing this with the built in virtual instruments or do i need to buy other virtual software addons? (all i have is pt with ezdrummer)

thanks

[cwsand]

You'd need a VI that has samples of strummed guitar chords. Not sure, but check the Xpand plugin that comes with Pro Tools - it very well may have a chord strumming patch.

[YYR123]

AAS Strum Acoustic GS-1 Guitar Software Synth

I just got this as a audiomidi.com no brainer deal...$20 buck.....yeah and it sounds really good.......Pickup selector onboard reverb.....and some other controls.......I am using this to put scratch tracks together when comp'ing a new song...really nice especially at $20

[Dism]

Ehhh.... There are a lot of VIs out there with fairly convincing guitar sounds, but most of them aren't $20, and tend to take some painstaking effort to make it sound real, especially at a beginner level.

You're better off just picking up a guitar, or calling over a friend who has one. Learning how to strum a guitar will give you more skills than learning how to edit a midi instrument to sound like a guitar.

[cwsand]

Originally Posted by Dism

Ehhh.... There are a lot of VIs out there with fairly convincing guitar sounds, but most of them aren't $20, and tend to take some painstaking effort to make it sound real, especially at a beginner level.

You're better off just picking up a guitar, or calling over a friend who has one. Learning how to strum a guitar will give you more skills than learning how to edit a midi instrument to sound like a guitar.

Very true - it's difficult to "replicate" a guitar sound with a VI.

[zedhed]

Google 'Midi Guitar' and see what comes up.

Have to agree though, the real thing is hard to beat

[elmo555]

Originally Posted by Dism

Ehhh.... There are a lot of VIs out there with fairly convincing guitar sounds, but most of them aren't $20, and tend to take some painstaking effort to make it sound real, especially at a beginner level.

is there a vi which i can for example, play the c note on the keyboard and it will spit out a strummed c chord guitar sound,? likewise if i then played g on the keyboard it would sound like a guitar strumming a g chord, ? then say i could customize notes together to get variations like g7 or diminished chords?

im willing to pay good money for the vi - (i bought ez drummer from toontracks as i hated boom) so i want to buy a specialised guitar VI which is not simple to use

[elmo555]

Originally Posted by zedhed

Google 'Midi Guitar' and see what comes up.

Have to agree though, the real thing is hard to beat

agree, every1 has their own play styles

Originally Posted by cwsand

You'd need a VI that has samples of strummed guitar chords. Not sure, but check the Xpand plugin that comes with Pro Tools - it very well may have a chord strumming patch.

do you know any VI which has prerecorded strummed sounds? xpand only has single notes im pretty sure it doesnt have strummed chords

[Terry Wetzel]

elmo 555, By the time you find a virtual instrument plug in that enables you to do the strumming thing you could have bought a guitar and learned to strum chords. Oh, and I forgot. You'd also need a mic.

[zedhed]

Prominy have some of the best virtual guitar software IMHO. Check out the video demos on the following links;

http://prominy.com/SC.htm

http://prominy.com/LPC_LE.htm

http://prominy.com/V_METAL.htm