Guitar Midi

[Korbl]

Hey everyone.

I'm kinda stuck in a rut on my solo bass music. I have finally found a drummer that is totally on board with playing my music. The only problem is that there are no guitarists in my area that have the right feel or guitar ( 8 string in drop E ) for the music that I'm writing.

So, my only option right now is to have a laptop with me when playing live. It will already be playing samples/electronics and keyboards along with a click track but I'm stuck on the guitar parts.

I have them programmed out, using Guitar Pro, and have them in Cubase 5 but I don't know how to use a VST to give them a more realistic sound. Can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction?

 

[seamonkey]

These are both good
http://www.orangetreesamples.com/
http://www.musiclab.com/

Use automation to vary the playing to get a more realistic sound.

You can also use loops/clips.
There's a couple of gigs of free rock clips here:
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Add in Amplitube or another modeler for the non-processed clips.

For quick easy realistic tracks that sound very much like clips but are easy to transpose try pgmusic.com realtracks.
http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.realtracks.htm

 

[_asdfgh_]

Hey everyone.
So, my only option right now is to have a laptop with me when playing live. It will already be playing samples/electronics and keyboards along with a click track but I'm stuck on the guitar parts.

If you haven't got one already I'd recommend a multiple output external sound card, ideally with 1/4 inch connections or better, so the sound engineer can have a feed per instrument and remix for front of house. If you can get one cheap enough used then it is sacrificial to some extent, and it might be worth using a USB extension cable so there are two cables connecting it to the laptop, so if something is strained hopefully the cable in the middle comes apart rather than damaging the ports on the laptop.

I'd also look to rendering each track down to audio in your DAW (or Bidule or whatever for triggering) so as to lighten the load on your laptop's CPU, and dry so reverb can be added at the mixing desk. The logic for this is that in a hot gig situation your laptop's power and heat management system may decide it is getting hot and clock down your laptop's CPU to cool itself down and those CPU-intensive VSTs may suddenly be more than it can handle at half the CPU power and you get audio glitching. Also remember to make sure the anti-virus isn't going to trigger in the middle of a performance!