Virtual Guitarist 2

ENGLISH
Virtual Guitarist
English 5
Virtual Guitarist 2 - What’s The Deal?
Virtual Guitarist 2 is a multi-format plug-in instrument providing a va-
riety of rhythm guitar Styles. Each Style is ready-to-go with the correct
guitar, microphone and amp, and a selection of phrasing controls.
In the figurative sense, Virtual Guitarist 2 comes to your studio, brings
a truck full of guitars, amps and FX and plays whatever you tell it to
play, perfectly and without complaining. All you have to do is play the
chord and key progressions via a MIDI keyboard. You can control the
phrasing, sound, and many other play parameters, using the mouse, or
by triggering them in real time using a MIDI controller or your software
host. This enables you to adapt the rhythm guitar to seamlessly work
within your song, and in any given musical style.
Virtual Guitarist doesn’t use common single-note samples or synthe-
sis to imitate guitars. The result would be extremely artificial, and if
you’ve ever tried to simulate guitar playing on a MIDI keyboard, you’ll
know exactly what we’re talking about.
Perhaps surprisingly, the Virtual Guitarist concept is actually much
simpler. Virtual Guitarist is based on a huge library of audio tracks re-
corded by real guitar players. This means the result really is a genuine
guitar recording—and not an artificial approximation.
Virtual Guitarist’s approach makes it possible to select from these re-
cordings in real time when you change a chord or any other parame-
ter. Tempo changes are no problem as the guitar recordings have
been processed in a way that enables all the beats to be triggered in-
dividually. And, in addition, you can manually shuffle and edit the indi-
vidual beats to create your own Parts - thanks to the spoon-throwing,
ground-breaking Riff Page.
The output signal of Virtual Guitarist 2 is fed into the Amp/FX section.
Here the sound gets beefed up using several Amp, Cabinet, micro-
phone set-ups – and an array of stomp box effects – just like in a real
guitarist’s rig.
Using Virtual Guitarist 2 is simple, especially if you think of the plug-in
as a real rhythm guitar player—tell it what to play and it will play it. The
playing is precise.