NI Guitar applications
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midilance
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NI Guitar applications
I have Komplete Ultimate 14 and am completely blown away with what can be done with "Session Guitarist - Electric Sunburst Deluxe" and "Electric Mint." Just sayin'.
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greg328
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Re: NI Guitar applications
They are indeed cool and useful but require a bit of study to get them to work well in an arrangement.
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David Polich
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Re: NI Guitar applications
I have all of the Session products - including all the guitars and basses. They are all great.
Most of the Session Guitarist libraries, and both of the bass libraries, have two "modes" - "Melodic" which allows you to play the guitar or bass just as you would any virtual instrument while at the same time allowing you to trigger the phrases within a pattern, and the Standard mode which is the patterns only.
It takes some practice, but ""Melodic" mode really is the way to go because you can play your own parts AND reach for a pattern phrase whenever you want. So I might call up a funky Strat pattern while in Melodic mode, and mostly play my own lines and strums, etc., every so often triggering one of the pattern phrases. It gives you the best of both worlds..because you aren't restricted to JUST the pattern phrases, and yet when you need them, there they are. Also, it is easy to overlook the voicing options - there are. multiple voicing options, and choosing different ones yields a big change in how the pattern sounds. You can also switch the playback mode so it will play a specific chord progression or phrase over and over.
Many of the patterns aren't what you could play from a MIDI keyboard, they're what guitarists would play, because they actually are phrases played by guitarists and then processed into slices so the phrases/patterns will play at any tempo you choose for your project. It's really a genius concept, and light years beyond what the other virtual guitar products give you.
I usually kill the onboard amp/effects in the Session Guitarist products, as the guitar amp/effects are really watered down Guitar Rig hand-me-downs that don't sound as good as something like Tonex or Neural amp sims. Running a Session Guitarist track into Tonex for the most part these days..and the result has been good enough to fool a lot of people who listen to my tracks, including guitar players.
Most of the Session Guitarist libraries, and both of the bass libraries, have two "modes" - "Melodic" which allows you to play the guitar or bass just as you would any virtual instrument while at the same time allowing you to trigger the phrases within a pattern, and the Standard mode which is the patterns only.
It takes some practice, but ""Melodic" mode really is the way to go because you can play your own parts AND reach for a pattern phrase whenever you want. So I might call up a funky Strat pattern while in Melodic mode, and mostly play my own lines and strums, etc., every so often triggering one of the pattern phrases. It gives you the best of both worlds..because you aren't restricted to JUST the pattern phrases, and yet when you need them, there they are. Also, it is easy to overlook the voicing options - there are. multiple voicing options, and choosing different ones yields a big change in how the pattern sounds. You can also switch the playback mode so it will play a specific chord progression or phrase over and over.
Many of the patterns aren't what you could play from a MIDI keyboard, they're what guitarists would play, because they actually are phrases played by guitarists and then processed into slices so the phrases/patterns will play at any tempo you choose for your project. It's really a genius concept, and light years beyond what the other virtual guitar products give you.
I usually kill the onboard amp/effects in the Session Guitarist products, as the guitar amp/effects are really watered down Guitar Rig hand-me-downs that don't sound as good as something like Tonex or Neural amp sims. Running a Session Guitarist track into Tonex for the most part these days..and the result has been good enough to fool a lot of people who listen to my tracks, including guitar players.
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greg328
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Re: NI Guitar applications
Great info thank u!
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DP 11.22, Yamaha Motif XS8, Novation MoroderNova, UAD Apollo and FX plugs, Lots of PLAY/OPUS libraries, Ivory 2, lots of Arturia titles, all 4 Spectrasonics titles, NI Komplete 13, BFD2-3, Addictive Drums 2, MachFive 3, Pianoteq 6, lots of UVI Workstation titles, All 5 MusicLab guitars-RealGuitar, RealStrat, RealLesPaulCustom, RealRickenbacker and RealEight.
DP 11.22, Yamaha Motif XS8, Novation MoroderNova, UAD Apollo and FX plugs, Lots of PLAY/OPUS libraries, Ivory 2, lots of Arturia titles, all 4 Spectrasonics titles, NI Komplete 13, BFD2-3, Addictive Drums 2, MachFive 3, Pianoteq 6, lots of UVI Workstation titles, All 5 MusicLab guitars-RealGuitar, RealStrat, RealLesPaulCustom, RealRickenbacker and RealEight.