Guitar VI's

[Doc K]

I would like to start this thread comparing Music Lab's Real Guitar and Real Strat, with AAS's Strum.

While still fairly new, this technology can only improve over time, and may someday give real guitarists a real challenge to tell the difference.

While reading various reviews on the 2 products from different sources on the web, they both seem to receive fairly positive marks.

I am not a VI expert by any means, but I understand that either of these products can be used as a plug-in in ProTools 8 LE.

My primary interest in either of these products is not necessarily the live performance capabilities, but the recording possibilities.

Please correct me if I am wrong on any of the operational details here.

Any sequence which you can design within these plug-ins, or live performance which you can perform from a MIDI keyboard with these plug-ins, can be recorded, (and then edited) to a MIDI track in Protools.

Then when you play it back, the MIDI track accesses the same authentic guitar-sample based sounds from the plug-in, which you can then bounce to an audio track?

Is that the general process here?

Is that how you would get an audio track from these VI's?

Any experiences with either of these products would be appreciated.

Any comparative opinions between the two also.

Doc K

[TCDet]

RG & RS user here.
VST-Only so a wrapper is needed and Xpansions works fine for these two in PT's 8.
Do go ahead an try the demos.
Have written 8 or so guitar-primary songs since getting these and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. However, like any emulative vi you must program like that instrument.

You are correct in concept. Program your parts then record the results as audio and move on.
Amp simulators or reamping works as expected.
Automating key-switches greatly improves the final result.

I tried the AAS-Stum demo but it was to artificial.
You try you decide.

A+ pleased with the RG/RS combo.

[Doc K]

Originally Posted by TCDet

RG & RS user here.
VST-Only so a wrapper is needed and Xpansions works fine for these two in PT's 8.
Do go ahead an try the demos.
Have written 8 or so guitar-primary songs since getting these and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. However, like any emulative vi you must program like that instrument.

You are correct in concept. Program your parts then record the results as audio and move on.
Amp simulators or reamping works as expected.
Automating key-switches greatly improves the final result.

I tried the AAS-Stum demo but it was to artificial.
You try you decide.

A+ pleased with the RG/RS combo.

How did you learn it? Did you just use the tutorials on the website?