EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Bill Canty <bill@b...> wrote:
...
> I've gotten by for years using the JV-1080 guitars and some 
strumming
> patterns that I did in Logic (by golly - that "note overlap 
correction"
> function's handy!) Even fooled a few guitarists.

Long time ago, I used to use a U110 with an "electric guitar" ROM 
card, bunged through a guitar multi-effects unit.
I had two main methods -- 

1: Have the thing playing as six mono MIDI channels (one per string), 
and record the piece normally from a keyboard, then run through on 
Notator's <!> event edit page changing the MIDI channels to the 
correct string numbers. That gave correct note-note cutoffs and also 
let you bend a note on one string (by overdubbing a pitchbend on the 
channel) without affecting the pitches of the other playing notes. 
You had all the controllers independently for each string, and could 
tweak the six sets of patch parameters so that the same note sounded 
slightly different when assigned to different strings (so you could 
get some nice variation by having the same repeated note# alternating 
between different strings).

2: Again, six channels, but assigned to different playing styles 
(pick, heavy, feedback, etc). Then you could play the part in and 
then go through on the edit page assigning different playing styles 
to different notes, again by editing each individual note's MIDI 
channel.

Worked pretty well.

At a pinch, an expressive electric piano patch (eg an FM patch) can 
also sometimes work well as a base for a more simple electric guitar 
sound, if you are feeding it through lots of overdive, chorus, 
distortion, etc.