EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I'm a guitarist as well--not a great one, but I can certainly tell
what works and 
what doesn't in a sampled guitar--and I also do a lot of arranging
where I don't 
have ready access to recording gear... using my laptop on the
road--so I use a 
lot of sampled guitar when I'm not able to put down a real part. I've
found that 
a lot of what brings "guitar" to a sample is how it's played, not how
it sounds, 
since we're used to hearing guitar with a lot of processing anyway.
My current 
guitar samples are very simple--an acoustic from American Heartland,
the 
muted electric that came with the EXS, and a free archtop I
downloaded as a 
sound font. 

If *I* were to commission someone to put together the ultimate guitar
library 
for me, here's what I'd want:

FEW GUITARS SAMPLED WELL: An acoustic (a Martin or Taylor; maybe one 
of each), an electric (a Les Paul or Strat) and maybe a hollow body
electric or 
archtop; each recorded with various styles of playing but the same
style of 
recording, ie muted, picked, finger picked, harmonics. Minimal
effects. 

COMMON CHORD ARTICULATIONS: I can program fingerpicking patterns so 
well now that, well, last month I did a recording session with a folk
singer who 
never quite nailed her guitar part. I *programmed* the part and she
thought I'd 
comped together a bunch of her takes. While picking works fine, I've
never 
heard a sampled guitar that *strummed* naturally. Either you have a
"strum" 
sample, wherein the strums don't have anything to do rhythmically
with the 
tempo of the piece, or you strum the MIDI guitar and get notes that
were all 
sampled individually and don't have that distinctive "strum" quality.
I'd love to 
have something that had a few dozen strum patterns for all the basic
chords in 
a kind of "Groove Control" or REX format that would scale tempo wise,
where 
the strings would ring out and mute each other naturally and the
strum would 
have rhythmic meaning. Ideally, you'd have several chord voicings,
such as 
open chords for folk music, root-fifth "power" chords for rock, and
inverted 
voicings for jazz. 

PREAMP FUNCTIONS: As long as I'm dreaming here, I would want a plug
in 
designed to work with this library that ran the guitars through a
particular mic, 
preamp, amp setup, like what the Line6Pod does. That way, even though 
there's only three or four guitars, I can process them in a wide
variety of ways.

That's how *I* as a sample-using guitar player would use a sampled
guitar 
library. And that's the kind of thing I'd be pleased to hear a
non-guitar playing 
arranger using. If you (or anyone) came up with something like that,
I'd look at 
it pretty seriously. 

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, teddybut <teddybut@e...> 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? as a
> guitarist, I have no idea what non-gtrists would want in their gtr
library.
> anyone willing to help me market and distribute such a product? EP??
> 
> thanks,
> Teddy "guitar" But