I am trying to figure out how to produce a convincing guitar chord strumming sound using regular midi instruments. I have Logic 6.1 Audio, and an external QSR (and the various soft synths and samplers that came with my Big Box, but I'm not using the audio side of this system yet because I don't have an audio/usb interface). What I've done is to manually stagger the attack of each "string" ever so slightly so you can tell the difference between an upstroke and a downstroke, just like you would if it were a real guitar playing. But it's not really quite right. It's not fast enough, and the notes (this is a factor of the specific instrument I've chosen, I guess, which I could alter if I really wanted to work on the envelope) are way too staccato for a guitar. There's not enough ring to it. So is this something that there's an easy way to do? Or should I just be using something like Steinberg's Virtual Guitarist? I have never used anything like that, and don't really know whether it would address this issue. That is, in VG, do I simply enter a stacked chord and when it gets played by the VG instrument it sounds like a guitar strum? Thanks in advance for those astute responses that will appear.