by esselfortium » Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:55 pm
ArcheKruz wrote:blackfish wrote:All the distorted guitars sound like saxophones to me. MusTheory doesn't sound that bad though.
Yeah unfortunately, there is no realistic way to make Guitars in MIDIs sound good, save for coding an Emulated Tube Amp routed to an unused CC parameter. The Roland SC-8850 Pro has a Tube Amp Filter routed to CC 71 and CC 74, unfortunately that kind of hardware isn't being sold anymore, and they go for at least $400 on eBay.
Even with amp emulation, there are so many intricacies and expressive elements in the actual playing of a guitar (strum timing, velocity, different timbres from different strings, muting, subtle pitch bends, etc) that it's effectively impossible to ever be able to drop an existing MIDI track into a program to make it sound realistic.
Doing it properly means many long hours drawing automation parameters, and unfortunately the harder you try to make it sound realistic, the less it sounds like a charmingly retro synth guitar doing its thing, and the more it sounds like a soulless uncanny-valley imitation. Having struggled with it myself, I can pretty safely say that actually training to become a guitar virtuoso to record it for real would be a more effective use of approximately the same amount of time and effort it takes to craft a convincing and expressive electric guitar performance using a sequencer.
[quote="ArcheKruz"][quote="blackfish"]All the distorted guitars sound like saxophones to me. MusTheory doesn't sound that bad though.[/quote]
Yeah unfortunately, there is no realistic way to make Guitars in MIDIs sound good, save for coding an Emulated Tube Amp routed to an unused CC parameter. The Roland SC-8850 Pro has a Tube Amp Filter routed to CC 71 and CC 74, unfortunately that kind of hardware isn't being sold anymore, and they go for at least $400 on eBay.[/quote]
Even with amp emulation, there are so many intricacies and expressive elements in the actual playing of a guitar (strum timing, velocity, different timbres from different strings, muting, subtle pitch bends, etc) that it's effectively impossible to ever be able to drop an existing MIDI track into a program to make it sound realistic.
Doing it properly means many long hours drawing automation parameters, and unfortunately the harder you try to make it sound realistic, the less it sounds like a charmingly retro synth guitar doing its thing, and the more it sounds like a soulless uncanny-valley imitation. Having struggled with it myself, I can pretty safely say that actually training to become a guitar virtuoso to record it for real would be a more effective use of approximately the same amount of time and effort it takes to craft a convincing and expressive electric guitar performance using a sequencer.