This arrangement was not intended for looping, so you can listen the authentic mute sound at the end of it. Rock-Modern player from VGEE plays motor rhythm and another VGEE player Blues Boogie performs riffs in hi registry of “his” guitar. Second half of the form is more “electric” and “drivy”. Look at the last measure in the first chorus of the comp track (VA Boogie) - eighth note pulsation has been achieved by increasing tempo rate to 2x using an envelope of the MIDI-controller 73. Slide-guitar Mean Reso from Virtual Acoustic plays typical riffs. The comp track is played by the acoustic player Boogie from Virtual Acoustic module. In the second chorus another player appears - RnB Blues Boogie from VGEE. But if you have patience, perseverance, and some fantasy, I think you can create any slide-guitar solo you want!įor musical development I used two-voiced presets of the player (7 Brothers and 8 Sisters) in second half of the form.įirst guitar is Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition player Pop Blues. Everything was achieved just by switching the original presets. And I did not use any advanced control modes (like 16-channel mode). The second guitar (player Sweet Chords from Virtual Acoustic) plays… solo. It sounded rather shrilling, and I had to decrease the level in high-middle frequencies during the mix. The comp track is played by Energy player from Virtual Electric module. It would really be better to load examples in any available audio editor, like Sony Sound Forge, Adobe Audition, Steinberg WaveLab, etc. Microsoft Media Player, WinAmp and others often “omit” first seconds of sound during playback. I do not recommend using various media players for listening examples. Generally I tried to avoid excessive use of effects during mixing, just the necessary minimum.
I used its own set of effects and several plugins from Waves, DSP-FX and TC Native. All mixes were created in my favorite Magix Samplitude 7.1.2 Professional. I used new excellent VSTi's Steinberg Groove Agent as the drum module, some Emagic instruments (ES2, EVB3, EXS24 with Akai and Sample Cell sample libraries), Native Instruments FM7. I made all arrangements in Emagic Logic Audio Platinum 5.5.1. In my sequencer all tracks played normally. But you can fix it quite easily - just give positive or negative delay to the track, increase ore reduce note duration, switch Latch mode off and on, and so on. Also note that these MIDI files can sometimes play incorrectly in different sequencers - some chord may fail to switch to the next, one or several notes may not play at all. Regular features appeared more than sufficient, and as a result I decided against creating my own patterns (although I wanted to try them out at first). I did not use 16-channel control mode, so don’t assign 16th MIDI channel to instruments. Unfortunately, I forgot which Chord Set was used in different arrangements - so you must choose it yourself (try XXL - you won't be disappointed for sure). Furthermore, “VE” means that this track is assigned to Virtual Electric part of the Virtual Guitarist, and “VGEE” denotes Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition. Thus “VA Traditional” means that this particular track should be assigned Traditional player, which is part of the Virtual Acoustic module. Each track contains information about the kind of instrument and player used. These tracks have no any subsequent editions - they were just imported from my projects. MIDI files contain anywhere from one to up to five tracks - exactly as many there were in my arrangements. So, not only you can listen to the work of VSTi`s, but also find out (for example, in the key editor of a sequencer) exactly how it was made. The file contains MIDI sequences of Virtual Guitarist tracks (all other tracks of arrangements were removed). Any effects you will hear (like wah-wah) were present in the original, and are not a result of the effect processor.Įvery example also has a MIDI file with it. I used the effects while mixing, but tracks themselves are presented in their raw form. When I worked with Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition, I turned off the integrated effect processor, this way all guitar tracks were recorded dry. So I had to make examples long enough, approximately 30-40 seconds each.īesides a mix of each arrangement, I also made separate examples of guitar tracks used. Unfortunately it was impossible to make short time examples in order to let you see all the functionality of the program. It can be used with up to 4-5 guitar tracks in one example (both simultaneously, and by turns). Most of them have two part musical structure, so you can play them in loop mode. They represent short arrangements which made in different musical styles. I will present 14 sound examples which illustrate the work of two Steinberg VSTi instruments - Virtual Guitarist and Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition.
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