EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

teddybut wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of creating and marketing my own guitar library. anyone have
> any suggestions as to what should be in a good guitar library?

I haven't sussed out any of the available guitar sample libraries (so
someone has probably already done this), but there's something I've
always found to be *grossly* lacking in the guitar samples in ROMplers.
They'll have, for example, a "clean guitar" and a "muted guitar", but
these 2 sounds are so completely different that they can't be used
together to even attempt to emulate a guitarist.

So, if I were shopping for a great collection of guitar samples I'd be
hoping to find a small number (at least) of extensive sets, each
containing many ways of playing the same guitar with the same recording
setup (mike, mike position, pre-amp, EQ, etc. etc.), the same amp, the
same player, the same everything. I'd want, for example, soft plectrum,
hard plectrum and finger-plucked versions of a few different levels of
muting (ranging from none to "it's so muted I can hardly tell what pitch
it is"), long sustained notes (if the level of muting allowed for
sustain) and some shorter ones, note releases, a few different velocity
levels, and for good measure some hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, etc.

I'd prefer just one set like that to 2000 incomplete and incompatible
sets. Oh, and with keyswitching for our favourite sampler'd be nice too!

If you wanted to be even more thorough you could include a set of MIDI
files recorded from a guitar MIDI-controller, including as many
different strumming and picking styles as possible, and slides,
hammer-ons, etc.

Oh, and I'd like it by next week, please. OK? ;-)


Cheers,   Bill Canty