Why MIDI Lead Guitar sounds fake - revelation!

[dante]

Im sure this will be obvious to many but it only just dawned on me for some reason. Even since the 80's and trying to put a DX7 guitar sound thru a BOSS Heavy Metal pedal and immitating Jan Hammer, Ive wondered why it dont sound like guitar. Its easy enough to record guitar leads dry/clean then add them thru Dynatube or Rack Extensions but the distorion is not quite right. Better to record via distortion fx in preamp then put that thru dynatube / RE.

And I always thought it was somehow related to style & articulation, but couldn't quite put my finger on it.

Then a revelation whilst recording / cut and pasting (coz I cant play fast enough) a lead solo - playing real guitar solo you DO put your finger on the fretboard evey note. But some notes you pick, and some are hammer on only - typically every second note may not be picked. When I had put the solo thru a Vermillion Rack Extension, the tone was so-so - having recorded clean - Vermillion did a reasonable Guitar Amp/Cab impersonation.

But it still sounded more like a MIDI solo ! This was a real guitar sounding like a fake general MIDI strat !

This was due to the way I cut and pasted individual notes - so they all had the same attack - no hammer ons were recorded. And thats why it sounded like MIDI.

SO - I figure a virtual guitar instrument should have an option to reduce the attack on every second note to imitate a hammer on.

[SilverScoper]

Baah !! Too much hard work. Just get this instead :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sNiQt8QLEiA

[hubird]

almost ordered it

[dawman]

Make sure to use Orange Tree Strawberry Evolution for the best results.
The original samples work best with well designed Round Robin implemented.

[Nestor]

waaaa... thanks for that one... I cannot stop laughing