Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 2 User Manual

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Low Cut
To avoid frequency masking between your guitar tracks and other 
tracks in the mix, it is often a good idea to slightly reduce the low fre-
quency content of the guitar signal. 
By turning the Low Cut knob clockwise, you move the highpass filter 
cutoff frequency from 0 Hz up to 800 Hz. When Virtual Guitarist 2 is 
used within a complex mix, the best position is somewhere between 9 
and 10 o’clock. At higher positions the sound will become thin and ar-...

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Timing
One of the great advantages of Virtual Guitarist is that the timing is al-
ways perfect and reliable. However, given that these two words are 
rarely used to describe the timing of a real guitarist, Virtual Guitarist 2 
also allows you to add some slight timing variations to make the guitar 
track sound slightly more human. To alter the timing of Virtual Guitar-
ist, you can adjust the timing dial to set a timing deviation.
The maximum timing deviation is very modest...

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Shuffle
The Shuffle parameter adjusts the feel of the performance of Virtual 
Guitarist 2. Technically speaking, Shuffle allows you to move the off-
beats of a bar to an earlier or later position. Turning Shuffle to the left 
moves the offbeats earlier, turning it to the right makes them later. You 
can get Virtual Guitarist 2 to play exact triplets by setting Shuffle to
-100% or +100%.
Shuffle on the Play Page and the Depth parameter in the Groove sec-
tion on the...

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Track Doubling
In a recording studio, guitar tracks are often doubled as another way 
to enhance the stereo image, and to produce a richer sound. To do 
this, the guitar player must record the same track twice onto two se-
parate tracks, which are panned left and right.
Virtual Guitarist doesn’t need two recordings to achieve this. Simply 
activate the Doubling switch and, as if by magic, two guitar players 
will play in unison.
The doubling feature is not a DSP effect like...

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Fret Noise
When a guitarist moves from one hand position to another, the hand 
slides over the strings and frets creating a squeaking sound. This fret 
noise is an important part of a natural guitar sound. Virtual Guitarist 2 
gives you control over the fret noise in your track. Select Off to disable 
automatic playback of fret noises when chords are changed. You can 
still add fret noises manually by playing C# in the Remote Range.
The Riff Page
On this page you can...

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The Riff Editor
The Riff Editor display shows a timeline of the two channels of the 
currently selected Part or Fill. It is designed to function like a mixture 
of a wave editor and a piano roll editor. The beige waveforms show 
the pitch, position and length of each individual slice in the Part or Fill. 
Parts are always one bar long and are constructed from several indi-
vidual Slices marked by the light blue, vertical lines. You can move a 
slice’s position by clicking the...

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Changing the Timing of Individual Slices
The timing of all individual slices in a Part or Fill can be changed by 
dragging the timelines left or right. Click on the light blue triangle on 
top of the insertions to drag them.
When you move a slice and it overlaps with another, Virtual Guitarist 2 
automatically removes or shortens the previous slice to maintain a 
realistic Part.
Part Selection Menu
The name of the currently selected Part is displayed here. Click the...

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Multiple Slices
You can select two or more slices for one position in a Part when 
checking the Multiple Slices option. Virtual Guitarist 2 will then alter-
nate randomly between these while playing. Alternatively you can hold 
the [Shift] key down while selecting Slices from the menu, which 
automatically activates Multiple Slices.
Decay/Pitch/Amplitude
Decay
Click and drag up/down to adjust the selected slice’s decay. You can 
also use the decay tool for this (see below)....

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Tools
Click on one of these buttons to select the corresponding tool, de-
scribed below. Right-click (Win)/[Ctrl]-click (Mac) a slice and keep 
the mouse button pressed to audition it.
Mono / Stereo
You can change a Part’s channel configuration by switching between 
mono and stereo mode. The mono setting will mix down both chan-
nels to mono, stereo will play the upper channel on the left and the 
lower on the right. Note that the doubling feature on the Play page...

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Eraser
Use the eraser tool to delete a slice by clicking on it in the Riff Editor 
display. Delete timeline insertions by clicking on the light blue triangle 
on the top.
Copy/Paste/Clear
Use the Clear button to delete all slice and timeline information from a 
Part.
Here’s an example explaining the Copy and Paste function. Use this 
function to copy the information of factory Parts into empty Parts.
1.Select a Part from the Part selection menu or by activating Key Follow...