Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

Kamm Schreiner wrote:
> 
> It is impossible to simulate (at least for me) guitar
> strumming using my keyboard. Is this were Audio loops come in handy?
> Do you search through a library of guitar samples looking for one that is
> strummed the way you want it to be. If not, does anyone have suggestions for
> creating realistic strumming on a MIDI instrument?

That's a question a lot of us have asked ourselves, I reckon!

I think that even though doing it in audio is potentially the most 
realistic way, you'd need a huge number of variations - not just one for 
each chord, but also for each version of the chord in terms of which 
strings are included or omitted, and also for how long each strum takes.

I've never been able to figure out a way to do it in MIDI in realtime, 
but (as embarrassing as it is to admit) I was once masochistic enough to 
spend about 2 hours in the score editor and event list creating a 
whopping one bar of what sounded like fairly realistic guitar strumming. 
That was the beginning of my own little library of guitar strums. Copy 
and paste, and transposing notes are all wonderful things! :-)

It's still very time-consuming, though, but the results can be good 
enough to sit in a mix. This, for example, was done with a JV-1010 for a 
client: http://www.billcanty.com/audio/guitar.mp3