Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 1 Manual
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ENGLISH Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition” Operation Manual by Peter Gorges
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” 2 English The information in this documentation is subject to change without no- tice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies AG. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agree- ment and may not be copied to other media. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced, or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permis- sion by Steinberg Media Technologies...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” English 3 ENGLISH Table of contents 5 The success story continues … 6 Congratulations! 7 How do I use Virtual Guitarist ? 7 What is Virtual Guitarist ? 8 How does Virtual Guitarist work ? 9 What you can and can’t do with Virtual Guitarist 9 Register your software ! 10 Optimizing the hard disk before installation 10 System requirements (PC version) 11 Installing Virtual Guitarist (PC version) 12 System requirements (Mac version) 12 Installing Virtual Guitarist...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” 4 English
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” English 5 ENGLISH The success story continues … The overwhelming success of our Virtual Guitarist VSTi released in April 2002 almost automatically lead to people asking for more players. Especially in the field of electric guitars styles there is such a vast range of sounds, styles, eras and musical styles. It was impossible to cover all these with one electric guitar that was just one part of a hybrid acoustic/electric guitarist. Simply to release more...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” 6 English Congratulations! Virtual Guitarist is your own personal rhythm guitarist, letting you choose between 29 guitar players, each of which is a perfectionist: perfect sound, perfect timing, and the ability to flexibly adapt to suit most musical styles. Using Virtual Guitarist you can easily add professional-sounding rhythm guitar tracks to your songs, without the need for a real player, and get a perfect take every time. Even if you use real guitarists...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” English 7 ENGLISH How do I use Virtual Guitarist ? Using Virtual Guitarist is simple, especially if you think of the plug-in as a real rhythm guitar player—tell them what to play and they will play it. The playing is precise and the guitarist won’t complain, which, aside from the clever programming, is a worldwide first in itself! Virtual Guitarist is used exactly like any other VST Instrument: • Prepare a track and load Virtual Guitarist. • Select a...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” 8 English How does Virtual Guitarist work ? To clear up a common misconception, Virtual Guitarist doesn’t use common single-note samples or synthesis to imitate guitars. The result would be extremely artificial, and if you’ve ever tried to simulate guitar playing on a MIDI keyboard, you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about. Perhaps surprisingly, the Virtual Guitarist concept is actually much sim- pler and is based on a huge library of audio tracks...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” English 9 ENGLISH What you can and can’t do with Virtual Guitarist Virtual Guitarist has many advantages when compared with a real guitar player: • The virtual guitar players are convenient and available at any time. • Using a virtual guitarist is cheap and easy, especially since 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 guitarists...
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VIRTUAL GUITARIST “ELECTRIC EDITION” 10 English Optimizing the hard disk before installation Virtual Guitarist installs 1.6 GB of data on your hard disk, and if your drive is quite full, or has not been defragmented recently, it’s possible that the install data will get split (fragmented) into many parts over the disk. Although it won’t affect the performance of the plug-in, it can lead to longer loading times of the players, which can become very frustrating. To optimize the loading times,...