Virtual Guitarist

VIRTUAL GUITARIST
“ELECTRIC EDITION”
26 English
Shuffle
The shuffle dial allows you to add a swing factor to the virtual guitar-
ist’s playback, enabling you to fit the rhythmic feel more closely to your
song. Technically speaking, the shuffle dial sets how far the off-beats
are placed behind the eighth note positions—you can get Virtual Gui-
tarist to play exact triplets by setting shuffle to 66.7%.
❐ If your music has a mostly triplet-based rhythmic feel, Virtual Guitarist will
sound better if you set shuffle to a slightly lower value than 66.7%—between
58% and 63% is usually a good starting point.
❐ There’s one exception from the shuffle rule: In parts 6-8 of the player “R’n’B:
Rock’n Roll” there’s already a shuffling of 66,6% at the minimum setting of the
control. This is because a straight pattern doesn’t make any sense here. By
turning the control up you can increase the shuffling to extreme values.
Timing accuracy
One of the great advantages of Virtual Guitarist is the timing is always
perfect and reliable. However, given that these two words are rarely
used to describe the timing of a real guitarist, Virtual Guitarist also
allows you to add some slight timing variations to make the guitar track
sound slightly more human.