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Message posted by barry james <b10175@...>
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hi guys i am wondering how well scrupture can create realistic instrument
sort of lookin for a dobro guitar sound with the slides and all....i have
yet to hear any good samples of this instrument...can anyone assist or
direct....slowly moving inot the pop country vein and would alos love to
hear any songs anyone has made in this vein using logic and its factory
sounds...thank u

On 09.12.2005, at 14:17, forums@... wrote:

> hi guys i am wondering how well scrupture can create realistic  
> instrument
> sort of lookin for a dobro guitar sound with the slides and all...

It can't. Sculpture does not imitate natural instruments. It  
"constructs" sounds by mathematical calculations based on physical  
properties. Although Sulpture can produce the sound of several  
natural string instruments to some degree it is rather built to  
construct synthetic or impossible instruments like a glass cylinder  
plucked by a feather.

Maybe you can imitate the sound of one Dobro string within a small  
fret range (if you get the parameters right) but you cannot expect to  
hear any typical playing technique. I think bending Sculpture "back"  
to produce natural sounds is, though possible, against its destination.


> i have
> yet to hear any good samples of this instrument

I don't know of Dobro samples but I am pretty sure you will find some.

If simple samples are not enough for you you might try RealGuitar.  
Maybe you can filter it somehow to get a Dobro-like sound, assuming  
that the playing style is authentic. Real Guitar has alternating  
samples and three types of noises (fret, release, body). You need a  
mid-size keyboard for that software.

If RealGuitar basically fits and you play it in solo mode you could  
try to support the sound with metallic settings from Sculpture. Btw,  
it would not do any harm to the musical scene if you get a Dobro  
sound nobody else has :-)

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Peter Ostry



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At 7:17 Uhr -0600 09.12.2005, forums@... wrote:
>hi guys i am wondering how well scrupture can create realistic instrument
>sort of lookin for a dobro guitar sound with the slides and all....i have
>yet to hear any good samples of this instrument...can anyone assist or

There is a sample library out there called "American Heartland" that 
has the best Dobro sounds I have heard. Still it's like with any 
sample library: it's nowhere close to what a player does.

Cheers
Hans

On 9 dec 2005, at 14.17, forums@... wrote:

> Message posted by barry james <b10175@...>
> ______________________________________________________________________

[snip]

> lookin for a dobro guitar sound with the slides and all....i have
> yet to hear any good samples of this instrument...can anyone assist or
> direct....slowly moving inot the pop country vein and would alos  
> love to
> hear any songs anyone has made in this vein using logic and its  
> factory
> sounds...thank u

[snip]

I don't know about the quality because I don't have the "real  
thing" (neither IRL or in software) but USB have at least one Dobro  
patch their Plugsound Vol.2 instrument. See

http://www.ultimatesoundbank.com/usb/exec/plugsound2

You can download and hear a "light" version of it their free plugin  
"Plugsound Free"  from another location on their website (the one I  
have used).

Cheers,

  Orc