Learn to Play the Guitar or Buy Guitar Simulation Software

[mojobone]

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Ouch. That's not gonna fool many, especially not guitar players, sorry. Even if the narrator knew how to pronounce rasgueado, it wouldn't help, though that's actually an articulation that kinda seems to work, in isolation. (just not when it's used a couple times in succession) The whole thing taken together is bollocks, IMO, even if it's the best I've heard, so far.

You'd have to use it sparingly, and never in isolation. The note releases, in particular sound unnatural. The only use I'd ever have for it is maybe learning new parts from TAB or sketching out a part that I maybe couldn't execute in realtime. Some of the strumming sounds okay, though, and some of the slides, but the hammer-ons are not working for me.

Definitely learn or hire, is my advice. It's almost always helpful to have at least one real instrument in the mix, and both guitars and guitarists come pretty cheap, these days.

Fair point, Len. In the hands of a real guitar player it could undoubtedly be massaged into a performance almost indistinguishable from the real thing, but it would take longer and probably still fall a smidge short. Still, easier for said guitar player to execute, and faster, cuz it's in realtime.

Published on May 22, 2013

Russ takes a look at the Ample Guitar T Acoustic Guitar virtual instrument in this extended video review. Check out what he thinks playing a guitar VI when he owns the real guitar!

https://youtu.be/xrEM448PxAE

I'm not a guitar player. Could I tell the difference? Probably, mostly by the use of crappy mics, terrible acoustics and off axis mic response or comb filtering by real guitarists rather than the sound purity. Maybe Russ at Pro Tools Expert is bollocks?? I assumed since he said he owned the Taylor guitar that he was a guitarist?

The first video was demonstrating the tab player with Guitar Pro. I'm sure there are other tutorials to adjust note releases, strumming, slides, hammer-ons, etc., if not, the manual probably does.

At any rate it's probably not a good use of time to wait on any double-blind studies whether they sound convincing or not. If a duck call sounds like a duck, it's fulfilled it's mission. Only the fate of a called duck cares whether it's a real duck or not,lol!

[Mixnow3]

Thanks again all for the input. Life's been chaotic to say the least for the last couple of months. When things slow down, I will learn to play the guitar. I'm a keyboardist but oddly enough, pretty much all of my music heroes are guitarists.

[mojobone]

Jan Hammer is your friend!