Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 2 User Manual

 
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Activating the Steinberg Key
 
Whether you bought a new key when you bought Virtual Guitarist 2, or if 
you want to use one you previously bought with a different Steinberg 
product: your Steinberg Key does not yet contain the license required 
for Virtual Guitarist 2. You must download this license before you can 
 
launch Virtual Guitarist 2!
 
Use the activation code supplied with the program in order to down-
load the license for Virtual Guitarist 2 to your...

 
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Preparations
 
The following sections describe how to set up Virtual Guitarist 2 for 
use with different interface formats.  
Setting up Virtual Guitarist 2 as a VST Instrument in Cubase 
 
The following information refers to the use of Virtual Guitarist within 
Cubase SX. We assume that you have correctly set up both Cubase SX 
and your MIDI and audio hardware. 
Should you wish to use Virtual Guitarist within another VST host 
 
application such as Nuendo, please refer to...

 
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Setting up Virtual Guitarist 2 as a DXi2 Instrument
 
The following information refers to the use of Virtual Guitarist 2 within 
Cakewalk SONAR 1. We assume that you have correctly set up both SO-
NAR and your MIDI and audio hardware. Should you wish to use Virtual 
Guitarist 2 within another DXi2 compatible host application, please refer 
 
to its documentation.
 
Proceed as follows to activate Virtual Guitarist 2: 
1. 
Make sure that SONAR receives MIDI data...

 
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Using Virtual Guitarist in an AU compatible application
 
You can use Virtual Guitarist in an AU host application (e. g. Logic) .
The Virtual Guitarist 2 AU version is installed in the folder “Library/
Audio/Plug-ins/Components”.
For Logic Pro 7 proceed as follows: 
1. 
Open the Track Mixer and choose the desired Instrument channel. 
2. 
Click the I/O field and, in the pop-up menu that appears, choose 
Stereo, AU Instruments, Steinberg and finally, Virtual Guitarist 2....

 
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Note that you are now running two completely separate applications. 
When you save your sequencer project, this will include the overall 
channel and bus configuration, but none of the settings in Virtual Gui-
tarist! To retain your Virtual Guitarist settings, choose the Save Bank 
command (which can be found in the File menu for Windows or the 
Virtual Guitarist menu for Macintosh). You may want to choose a file 
name that indicates that the file contains...

 
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Latency
 
Although Virtual Guitarist is practically latency-free, high latency times 
(the delay between pressing keys on your MIDI keyboard and hearing 
a sound) can occur when you play Virtual Guitarist via your MIDI key-
board in real time. 
This is often caused by the audio card or the MIDI interface, although 
it won’t be an issue when playing back a song with a Virtual Guitarist 
2 MIDI track. To get rid of annoying real-time latency, we recommend 
you to replace your...

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Virtual Guitarist 2 - Compatibility to Earlier Versions
Please note that Virtual Guitarist 2 is not backwards compatible to 
Virtual Guitarist 1 and Virtual Guitarist 1 Electric Edition. Although all 
Styles and Parts included in former versions of Virtual Guitarist are in-
cluded in the current version of the program, older projects using Vir-
tual Guitarist 1 or Virtual Guitarist 1 Electric Edition will not play 
correctly when simply trying to substitute version 1...

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By default the Key Remote Range is assigned as follows:
You can select which range on your MIDI keyboard is used as the Key 
Remote Range on the Setup Page.
The Pitch Range
The keyrange outside the Remote Range on your MIDI keyboard is 
called the Pitch Range and controls the pitch of the played Parts or 
Fills. In this range you can play notes or chords and Virtual Guitarist 2 
will intelligently follow your playing. Playing any note in the Pitch 
Range with a high velocity...

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First Test
Now everything is set up for a hands-on approach to Virtual Guitarist 
2, so:
1.Activate Virtual Guitarist 2 (as described in the section “Preparations” 
on page 12) and load a Style from the blue Style list on the right by 
double-clicking it. Click the Latch button on the Play Page to activate 
latched play mode.
2.Play a chord or note on your MIDI keyboard in the region above C3, 
and Virtual Guitarist 2 will start to play. Because we activated the...

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Virtual Guitarist 2 Terminology
Style
In the terminology of Virtual Guitarist 2, a Style is a set of riffs and fills 
(called Parts) suiting a unique musical style. However, it is more than 
just a sound or rhythm, each Virtual Guitarist 2 Style refers to a parti-
cular guitar, sound (amp, speaker, etc.), and dedicated playing style. 
Each Style consists of 16 preassigned Parts (basic Part + particular 
Fill) triggered by the white Keys between C1 to B1. You can build 
your...