Steinberg Studio Case VST Instruments Operation Manual
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ENGLISH VST Instruments Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition SE 2 – 41 Player reference This table provides detailed info on players, chords and bpm. Name DescriptionRhythm Base Chordsbpm Range Funk: Basic Funky, clean pop rhythm guitar 8 full set >70 Funk: Octaves Octave riffs complementing chord versions16 neutral >70 Wah: Single Note Collection of funky single-note wah phrases16 neutral >70 Wah: Complex More complex variants of Wah: Soul 16 neutral (plays chords and lines)>70 Pop: Brit 2...
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VST Instruments 2 – 42 Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition SE
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ENGLISH 3 Virtual Bassist SE
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VST Instruments 3 – 44 Virtual Bassist SE About Virtual Bassist SE Virtual Bassist SE is your own personal bass player, allowing you to choose between 5 fulfilling styles with perfect sound, perfect timing, and the ability to flexibly adapt the playing to suit most musical needs. Virtual Bassist SE will easily add professional-sounding bass guitar tracks to your projects, without the need for a real bass player, and you get a perfect take every time. Even if you use real bassists in your music as...
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ENGLISH VST Instruments Virtual Bassist SE 3 – 45 What is Virtual Bassist SE ? Technically speaking, Virtual Bassist SE is a software instrument that comes with a variety of electric bass guitar Styles, each fitting a certain musical style, and that is ready-to-go with the correct sound and phrases as well as a selection of Fills and controls. Musically speaking, Virtual Bassist SE plays itself, all you have to do is select the chords or root notes via a MIDI keyboard. You can control the phrasing...
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VST Instruments 3 – 46 Virtual Bassist SE What you can and can’t do with Virtual Bassist Virtual Bassist SE has many advantages when compared with a real player: •Virtual Bassist SE is convenient and available at any time. •Virtual Bassist SE is cheap and easy and you won’t need a studio to record in. •You can save time because there’s no setup, tuning, preparation, microphone positioning, or audio recording. •Virtual Bassist SE doesn’t play wrong notes and there aren’t any timing prob- lems. •You can...
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ENGLISH VST Instruments Virtual Bassist SE 3 – 47 The first test At this point, you’re probably itching to get your hands on Virtual Bassist SE, so let’s get started: 1.Activate Virtual Bassist SE (as described on page 19). Virtual Bassist SE automatically loads a showcase Style. The “Latch” button will be activated. 2.Press the D1 key on your MIDI keyboard (to select a Part) and play a chord or note in the two octaves between C3 and B4 (the Pitch Range). Virtual Bassist SE will play a basic groove....
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VST Instruments 3 – 48 Virtual Bassist SE Playing Virtual Bassist SE There are several ways to play Virtual Bassist SE: •You can play chords and notes and vary the expression using keyboard velo- city, MIDI controllers and sustain pedal. •If you don’t have a MIDI keyboard you can enter notes and other MIDI events using a MIDI editor provided by your host application. •If you haven’t got a MIDI keyboard connected to your host application or if you just want a quick impression, you can make Virtual...
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ENGLISH VST Instruments Virtual Bassist SE 3 – 49 The Pitch Range The key range between C3 and B4 on your MIDI keyboard is called the Pitch Range and controls the pitch of the played Parts, Fills or Sin- gle Notes. In this range you can play notes or chords and Virtual Bass- ist SE will intelligently follow your playing. Playing any note in the Pitch Range with a high velocity (>125) produces an eighth or a quarter bass note, depending on the Style. This Accent is handy for varying your bass lines...
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VST Instruments 3 – 50 Virtual Bassist SE Virtual Bassist SE terminology Styles A Style is a set of grooves and phrases (called Parts and Fills) and in- cludes bass selection, FX and Groove Match settings suitable for a particular musical genre. Each Style consists of 13 Parts triggered by the white keys between D1 and B2 and 6 Fills triggered by the black keys F#, G#, Bb in the same key range.You can load a Style by double- clicking it in the Style Browser. Virtual Bassist SE loads a showcase Style...