"k9gardner" <yahoo@...> wrote: 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? ------------------------------------------- If you do not play guitar, you are not selling your professional custom standard midi files and are just looking to use VG for various strumming patterns in yours' and other clients studio projects Virtual Guitarist 1 and 2 (electric guitars only) are must haves. This, as a user of VG, I consider a fact of life. VG does not work like the midi strumming patterns you have described. VG is programmed similar to the Digitech Vocalist background tracks you see in some custom cover sequences from professional midi file companies. Your midi programmed quantized chords trigger VG's REX file samples of real session players strumming various patterns (accessed thru program changes within your sequence), pretty easy stuff, really. Very realistic to my ears. The REX file structure allows for any and all (even realtime) tempo changes without any noticable degradation of sound quality. This is the cool part. Control Changes #s are used to control different variations within the program. As good as my guitar strumming midi programming has become, I only use that technique in my professional custom midi files (out of necessity). VG is how I do 75% of all studio stuff, except for the live guitar players I always use when solos are involved (VG does not do solos). I do feel this was one of my best VI investments. It is really good for mapping out inexpensive but quality sounding demos. I run it as a native VSTi in Logic or with "Audio Ease's" VST Wrapper in Digital Performer. Hope this helps. Derrell Brown -Demo Man Productions- "Custom Music On Demand For The Professional" ----------------------------- 13023 Old Hwy 49 Gulfport, MS. 39503-4854 ----------------------------- Voice: 228-539-2304 Cell: 228-547-8783 ----------------------------- Email: demomn2@... or demomanprod@... Web: http://members.aol.com/demomn2/index.html