How to Make Guitar Melodies With VST
Even if you produce electronic music, adding guitar melodies to your songs can greatly increase their effect. If you don't have access to a physical guitar and recording equipment, use a Virtual Studio Technology-based guitar plug-in in your digital audio workstation to create guitar melodies. VST guitar plug-in uses MIDI input to generate guitar sounds; you can either program guitar melodies using your workstation's piano roll editor or play the guitar plug-in using a MIDI keyboard. Depending on which VST plug-in you choose, you can make both acoustic and electric guitar melodies in several different styles.
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Use MusicLab's series of guitar VST plug-ins to create guitar melodies. RealGuitar emulates an acoustic guitar; you can set the VST plug-in to simulate either steel or nylon strings and picked or plucked playing styles. RealStrat is a virtual Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, while RealLPC emulates a Les Paul Classic guitar. As RealStrat and RealLPC are electric guitar VSTs, you'll need to play them through a guitar amplifier VST like Amplitube, Guitar Rig or Ableton Amp to realize their full potential. All of MusicLab's guitar VST plug-ins can use strumming patterns to create more realistic guitar melodies. You enable this feature by activating the "Pattern Manager" in the plug-in.
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Make guitar melodies using DSK Music's free series of VST plug-ins. The DSK Guitars package includes a VST that emulates a generic acoustic guitar, as well as steel-string and nylon guitar VSTs. DSK's guitar plug-ins are fairly simple. You can only adjust the guitar's volume dynamics and its overall volume level; all of the plug-ins' other parameters are pre-set. This simplicity, however, means that the DSK guitar VST plug-ins only require a small amount of system resources to run.
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Create hard rock and heavy metal melodies using reFX's Slayer2 VST plug-in. Slayer2 uses physical modeling synthesis to recreate the sound of an electric guitar based on a mathematical simulation of the guitar. You can configure the dynamics and playing style for this VST plug-in. Slayer2 also includes a built-in amplifier simulation, meaning that you don't need a separate amplifier VST plug-in to make electric guitar sounds.
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