Virtual Guitarist

VIRTUAL GUITARIST
“ELECTRIC EDITION”
English 15
ENGLISH
First test
At this point, you’re probably itching to get your hands on Virtual
Guitarist “Electric Edition”, so:
1. Activate Virtual Guitarist (as described in the previous section) and
load a player. In the Virtual Guitarist window, click the “Latch” button
to activate the parameter.
2. Play a chord or note on your MIDI keyboard, and Virtual Guitarist will
start to play. Because we activated the “Latch” button, playback will
continue when you release the key(s).
3. If you have a sustain pedal connected to your MIDI keyboard, press it
to stop the Virtual Guitarist.
If you don’t have a sustain pedal, you can assign the “stop” function to
a note on your MIDI keyboard. For more information about this, check
out the “Remote keys” section on page 23.
❐ The MIDI LED in the Virtual Guitarist window lights up when Virtual Guitarist
receives MIDI-Events.
How to play Virtual Guitarist
There are several ways of playing the Virtual Guitarist:
• You can play chords and vary the expression using keyboard velocity, MIDI
controllers, the sustain pedal, and program changes.
• If you’re not familiar with a keyboard, you can enter chords and other MIDI
events using one of the editor’s provided by your sequencer software.
• You can use Virtual Guitarist to dub the chord tracks of existing songs and
MIDI files to improve the way they sound. Many commercial MIDI files include
special chord tracks, although duplicating a typical "Pad sound” track (such
as strings) with the Virtual Guitarist will usually produce good results.