Guitar Samples

[drumandbass]

Hey guys,

I'm looking for any guitar samplers / virtual instrument kinda thing.

Preferably something which allows me to tweak the tones or something. Mainly for arranging though.

THanks!!

 

[Cheez]

Which sampler are you using? Are you looking for loops or multisamples? What type of guitar are you looking for (Les Paul, Strat, Acoustic/Steel String, Classical/Nylon String etc)?

 

[drumandbass]

Kontakt 3.5

Lookign for Les Paul's, PRS, Strat, Tele. As well as some decent amps and effects.

 

[kongwee]

I once came across KVRaudio forum. There is a Kontakt patch that weight about 1 gig that do chords and lead keyswitching. It is not complete yet. I also forgot the brand. Most of the time virtual guitars are plugin base. Sound bank is not a lot(unless you talk about non-keyswitching one).

 

[Cheez]

Pettinhouse (http://www.pettinhouse.com/) has some usable and relative cheap samples (I have some of them). Prominy is one of the best (if not the best) for Les Paul and Strats (http://prominy.com/index.htm). It comes with a hefty price, but it's hard to get anything close to the real thing here. Sonivox has some guitars (cheaper ones) but not Native Kontakt. Other non-Kontakt ones are East West Ministry of Rock (which you get more than just guitars) and VSL.

There are various cheap ones, which I can't remember (I have some of them as well in my HD). I'll let you know later. Do a search for license-free ones. There are many out there, although quality is not as good.

You'll probably also want Guitar Rig, if you don't have Komplete. Get a clean guitar sample and process it through Guitar Rig.

 

[Cheez]

The other very cheap and pretty good samples for electric guitars is lyrical distortion (http://www.lyricaldistortion.com/store/). I grabbed a few of their samples when it was on discount (something like $5).

 

[drumandbass]

Hey man! Thanks!

I know nothing beats actually recording them. But I aint a guitar player and it's just for demos and the samples I have in Logic is plain disgusting and killing me.

 

[Cheez]

If you are not a guitar player, and you are willing to invest, then Prominy is the best. Although not cheap, it almost equal to having a real guitarist in your studio playing for you - a very good guitarist. Paying for a good guitarist for sessions will be more expensive - esp if you are into productions.