> Funny, I never see > > one of my session guitarists trying to produce convincing > keyboard > > sounds on their guitar.  I know, I'm a smartass, I just believe in > > the real thing, and guitar players are not hard to come by. > > I agree, being a guitar player. > Have you heard Stevie Wonder's "Stevie Ray Vaugn Blues"? I think its an amazing synth rendition of a Stevie Ray Vaught guitar solo - its from Stevie Wonder's double live album in Japan. He has quite an ear! Actually I have found that making a strum is fairly easy - you start the low notes well before the beat, so that the high notes hit on the beat. Also the timing between the "Strings" starts slow and gets faster.

> Have you heard Stevie Wonder's "Stevie Ray Vaugn Blues"? I think its an > amazing synth rendition of a Stevie Ray Vaught guitar solo - its from > Stevie > Wonder's double live album in Japan. He has quite an ear! > > Actually I have found that making a strum is fairly easy - you start > the low > notes well before the beat, so that the high notes hit on the beat. > Also the > timing between the "Strings" starts slow and gets faster. It's important to remember to get the voicings right, too. One of the things that is so distinctive about guitar is its palette of chord voicings. You have to bear in mind the tuning of the strings (EADGBE) and the way they fall under the fingers on the fretboard while you're programming. It's actually quite a interesting thing to try and program, regardless of whether people think it's 'right' or not. Have you got the EVD6 in the Big Box? It can produce really good plucked string sounds with a bit of tweaking. I never use it as a Clav but I love it - it's always being a Marimba or a noise generator or a guitar-synth for me. Stephen

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, stephband@l... wrote: > Have you got the EVD6 in the Big Box? It can produce really good > plucked string sounds with a bit of tweaking. I never use it as a Clav > but I love it - it's always being a Marimba or a noise generator or a > guitar-synth for me. > > Stephen Yes, I have a disk with EVD6 on it but I haven't tried it yet. I did find a little shareware program called reMIDI that does an ok job of strumming (and arpeggiating), but I'm not sure how to incorporate it into what I'm doing with Logic. We'll see. I do appreciate the responses, smart-assed and non! I know I'm a freshman here so I have to put up with all kinds. As for hiring a session guitarist, well, c'mon. I'm sitting in a 6x6 foot room, my home studio, trying to compose some music. The room would get awfully crowded if I brought in a guitarist, and a bassist, and a drummer, and a sax section, and a brass section, and... well, you get the picture. I can't even imagine getting a B3 in the elevator, but maybe. Take the Leslie cabinet in a separate trip, it might go. Seriously, I agree that natural instruments are wonderful (I play the clarinet myself), but here I sit in front of a synthesizer trying to write some music. I think a plug for using real guitarists sort of misses the point, don't you? (Not you, Stephen, this is directed toward Gregory, who posted earlier.)