Virtual Guitarist

VIRTUAL GUITARIST
“ELECTRIC EDITION”
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How does Virtual Guitarist work?
To clear up a common misconception, Virtual Guitarist doesn’t use
common single-note samples or synthesis 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 sim-
pler and is based on a huge library of audio tracks recorded by real liv-
ing and breathing (not to mention drinking) guitar players. This means
the result really is a genuine guitar recording—and not an artificial
approximation.
Virtual Guitarist’s ground-breaking approach makes it possible to
select from these recordings in real time when you change a chord or
any other parameter. Tempo changes are no problem as the guitar
recordings have been processed in a way that enables all the beats to
be triggered individually. And, in addition, you can manually shuffle the
individual beats to create your own parts—the eight parts you can
select from for each player are all examples of what’s possible, which
we’ll look more closely at later.
In Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition”, the output signal of “guitar and
amp” gets fed into the FX section— just like in real life. Here the sound
gets beefed up using Wahwah, AutoFilter, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser,
Tremolo and Delay.