Acoustic guitar VST?

[RPaul]

Since my "round up" response on virtual acoustic guitars from last year, I also added a bundle of 4 guitars -- 2 acoustic and 2 electric -- from Acousticsamples that had been on sale on a third party site at one point (it is no longer available there, so no use mentioning the site, and Acousticsamples doesn't currently offer the collection as a bundle, though the individual products are available at https://www.acousticsamples.net/guitars). They have since become some of my favorite virtual guitars for both the acoustics and the electrics. In particular, when playing them manually, they do one of the best jobs of translating keyboard-based virtual guitar playing to "guitaristic" results. They also have strumming and pattern-based possibilities, though I've used them more in the "solo" mode. They run under the UVI workstation player (which was provided with the products).

I'd actually bought the bundle mainly for the Telecaster (Telematic V3) because I needed a good Tele from some country projects and that was one big missing piece in my overall set of virtual guitars (and the bundle sale price available at the time was less than the Tele would have cost on its own), but I've used both acoustics quite a bit since then and have also leaned toward the Strat (Strategy) over RealStrat on some recent projects. The acoustic guitars are the GD-6 Acoustic Guitar (https://www.acousticsamples.net/guitars/gd6), which is a Guild D-40 custom edition electro-acoustic guitar, and Sunbird (https://www.acousticsamples.net/guitars/sunbird), which is based on a 1962 Gibson Hummingbird acoustic guitar (you can hear that one in action on "Ghosts" on my TAXI member page -- it is the steel string guitar, with the nylon-stringed one being MusicLab's RealGuitar 5). I'd rank them up there with the NI Session Guitarist - Picked Acoustic in terms of how well they respond to playing. I haven't used their pattern mode to compare on that front. Of course, they are different flavors (NI Picked Acoustic is a Martin 00-21).

Rick