THE OFFICIAL: dope guitars using software and a midi keyboard???

[N.U.G.]

hey gang,

anyone got any advice or tips on how to make dope guitar melodies using software and a midi keyboard?

especislly ish like Angie Stone, Jill Scott, The Roots and other soul/hip-hop...

holla

 

[Formant024]

yup. try throwing anything through Amplitube, turns any signal into hendrix or santana.

 

[classic]

use alot of , velocity, pitch bend and modulation wheel, layer the gutiars to get a thicker natural sound, pluck the keyboard like a gutar player would pluck gutiar strings

clas..

 

[Haze47]

im not sure it is that possible, IMO guitar is the only thing a vst has not emulated properly yet...

if you gunna try, then get some overdrive/tube dist. on it, a chorus, reverb, and phatt compression like -10db, 6:1:1 RATIO for eg, low attack and if you playing it fast fast realease as well,and yea pitch bend it instead of changing notes on the keys and sample some frett slide noise layer that over it when you change notes, but it is hard...

i play the guitar btw

 

[P_1]

pluck the keyboard like a gutar player would pluck gutiar strings

clas..

wtf??? hahaha! but i see what you're tryna say though. just thought that shit was funny! vst guitars arent that great. why not just try to record your own riffs? i let my pops do it coz that dude is sick. santana, hendrix, and everyone else you can think of he can recreate. the only problem with working with my pops is that he gets carried away WHILE WE'RE RECORDING. i've tried to tell the dude to keep it simple but his answer is always, "well as a guitar player, keeping it simple is just not an option." guess its the same way we feel about our drums.

 

[eXampuL_oNe]

yup. try throwing anything through Amplitube, turns any signal into hendrix or santana.

Hmmmm, is that a freeware? If not where is that joint at, how much does is run and is it worth it? That's sounds dope though Formant, I might have to cop that myself...

 

[Qwerty]

use alot of , velocity, pitch bend and modulation wheel.

that's kinda stupid, but i ALWAYS WONDERS what that modulation wheel does??? it's like i'm playing and i make it goes up and down and it does nothing to the sound, what does it do?

 

[Chrono]

it's like i'm playing and i make it goes up and down and it does nothing to the sound, what does it do?

maybe your wheels broke. my wheel raises/lowers (bends) the pitch.

 

[classic]

maybe your wheels broke. my wheel raises/lowers (bends) the pitch.

no thats the pitch bend wheel

The modulation wheel changes the freaquncey of the sound your playing (sometimes it makes it thinner of fatter, sometimes it makes it plusate, i just depends on the voice settings.

class...

 

[Greg Savage]

emulating a guitar is pretty Simple once you understand how there played and all the little Artifacts, Strums. finger ruggs little deck hits the Mistakes

Study Real Guitars 1st and got from there its not hard as most think

Or Learn how to play and Actual guitar this will IMprove your emulating alot

get on aim Nug i can show some some shit

 

[N.U.G.]

thanks for the input fam

I've come to realise anything is possible with music production

I'mma focus on myself and getting my game up and then ish like guitars with Sodtware will be much easier

I'm also gonna learn to play guitar next year or something too. any info i get or things i learn i'll post here and share with y'all

peace

 

[2_nice]

playing real guitar if you composition skills are tight is easy (at least playing basic shit is !!)........ you right your parts on the keyboard and then work them out on the guitar and record that shit !!!..... you don't need incredible technique unless you're doing some full on tremelo or really fast tapping type stuff or crazy bending/sliding and your piano finguring skills will definitely cross over

 

[Scholar]

Shit Nigga Do Like Me And Learn That Bitch!!!!!!!!!!