Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 2 User Manual

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Style Reference
This table provides detailed info on Styles, available chords and 
recommended bpm.
Name Description Rhythm 
BaseChords bpm 
Range
Acoustic Guitars
Steel String Rhythm
Power Pop Chops Powerful and rhythmic Rock 
and Pop8/16full >65
Power Pop Open More complex and more exotic 
than Power Pop Chops16full >65
Chopped Steel Accentuated and headstrong, 
for high tempo16full >70
Muted Rock Muted 8ths, for thickening and 
doubling8/16full >65
Light Strumming...

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Folk 1-5-8  Folk neutral only >70
Country Universal accompaniment, in-
spired by country and western 
music.8 full Depend-
ing on 
Song
Steel String 
Picking
Bright Picking folky Pop, traditional picking 16full >50
Folk Picking American singer/songwriter 
picking16full >50
Modern Arp 8th easy ambient arpeggios 8 full >65
Modern Arp 16th Pop and Folk picking (same 
sound as Modern Arp 8th)16full >60
Arpeggio One- and two-voice plucking, 
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Dobro
Mean Reso Like Sweet Chords, less har-
monic, more desert dust.8 Blues >70
Sweet Chords One- and two-voice chords 
played with a steel bar.8 Major, Minor >70
Electric Guitars
Crunch Chords
Brit Pop 1 Singer/songwriter guitars 8 full >70
Brit Pop 2 Like Brit 1, more pop-oriented 
and 16-based16full >70
Muted Fifth Standard single notes 8 neutral only >70
Rock’n’Roll Fifties Rock 8 neutral only 120 - 
200
Singer Songwriter American singer/songwriter 
grooves8 full...

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Distorted Chords
Fat Indie Modern crunch 8 full >65
Indie Grit Modern crunch, additional 8 full >65
Pop Basic, driving pop rock 8 neutral only 90 - 140
80s Rock Heavily distorted, accentuated 
8ths8/16neutral only >65
Classic Smokey classic rock grooves 8 neutral only 80 - 150
Modern Modern rock grooves 16neutral only 70 - 130
Heavy 1-5-8 British rock 8 neutral only 100 -160
Lowrider Louder alternative, or supple-
ment, for Muted Fifths8 neutral only >70
Distorted Riffs
Indie...

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Heavy Chords Noisy punk style 16Major, Minor 80 -120
Heavy Riffs
Ultra II As Ultra I, but more add-ons 
(Noise, Scratch, Squeaking)16neutral only >70
Nu Riffs Drop tuning (strings tuned 
down for darker sound charac-
ter), power riffs and Nu Metal 
phrases16neutral only 70 - 110
Hi Fives Riffs in high range, great com-
plement for other Heavy styles8 neutral only 90 - 140
Clean Chords
Complex Funk Significantly more complex than 
Funk: Basic16full >70
Medium Funk...

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Reggae Lines Single note lines, complement-
ing the Reggae Chops8 full >60
Wah
Single Note Collection of funky single-note 
wah phrases16neutral only >70
Wah Complex More complex variants of Wah: 
Soul16neutral only >70
Soul Wah Wah chords for pop and RnB 16maj/min >70
Wah Wah Classic seventies ‘Cry Baby’ 
sound167, 9 >70
Crazy
Pig Squealing distortion
Agrolines Heavy sequenced feel
Trancelines Techno arpeggio Name Description Rhythm 
BaseChords bpm 
Range 

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Credits
Musical Director/Producer: Detlef Blanke / www.D-Tone.de
Interface Design: Shaun Ellwood / Decoder Design
@Wizoo:
Software Engineering: Paul “Beans” Kellett, Mario “Frantic” Reinsch, 
Ben “Technisch nicht möglich!” Wendelstein, Joachim “Chefkoch” 
Schröder, Axel “Techno” Hensen
Sound Design: Mark “Känguhuhn” Ovenden, Eddi “Chicken” Hettinger
Quality Assurance: Götz “Topkick” Kretschmann, Jan “Röhre” Schmidt, 
Malte Bieler
Audio Preparation: Sascha “Schnippel”...

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Virtual Guitarist 2
Handbuch
von Wolfram Knelangen 

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