There are so many IRs that can turn an electric guitar direct signal into a hollow body steel-stringed guitar, etc. There's a whole host of effects chains that could be used with this. And since the direct signal would be modeled, it would have the potential to sound really authentic.

Best wishes,

Stig

A few years later but, as a recent Pianoteq user, here's my take on their Classical Guitar: it's fantastic and is the only reason that I bought Pianoteq.

I play a bit of classical guitar and Pianoteq's modelling is excellent with a good selection of presets and customisation options. I use it as a VST3 for playback of guitar scores with MuseScore 3 and MuseScore 4, as well as a standalone player for guitar MIDI files. I'll be updating some of my MuseScore SF2 based uploads with Pianoteq Classical Guitar.

Now we just need a pack for Acoustic Guitar!

Absolutely. It’s a wonderful model.

I play a bit of classical guitar and Pianoteq's modelling is excellent with a good selection of presets and customisation options. I use it as a VST3 for playback of guitar scores with MuseScore 3 and MuseScore 4, as well as a standalone player for guitar MIDI files. I'll be updating some of my MuseScore SF2 based uploads with Pianoteq Classical Guitar.

Now we just need a pack for Acoustic Guitar!

I can't play guitar, but I love Classical Guitar. Have made at least 20 recordings already with Organteq and guitar as soloist, playing from keyboard.  I enjoy the sound and the opportunities to experiment, trying to get a fatter sound on Guitar Electrified is exciting, for example.

To simulate a classical guitar well on a keyboard instrument, you need to know how to play classical guitar, well, I know that it is so. But I am happy with the result.
I have also received some positive feedback.
I'm not competing with anyone, I just enjoy the Guitar sound, as I enjoy all Modartt's products.

Thank you Robin Tournemenne for the Guitar.

Here a simple example of many, whether it sounds like a real guitar or not, I'm enjoying it anyway   

https://youtu.be/OOHFdfZVkTY

All the best, everyone

Stig

rumburak wrote:

To simulate the sound of a classical guitar well on a keyboard instrument (not only on Pianoteq, but on any other instrument), you need to know how to play classical guitar.
Pretending to play a piano/keyboard style guitar will always sound unnatural, artificial.

I have no interest in the guitar model even though they gave it to me.

The beauty of it though is it doesn't take up any extra space. We aren't talking samples here - no more and no less drive space to worry about. All that does is unlock the limitations on the models already inside the Pianoteq software.

I assume you have the full package of all of the instruments so regardless of whether you want the instruments or not you will get full access to all of them.

Owing to my limited abilities and tastes I went for standard as I didn't want all of the instruments, or rather I can't do justice to all of the instruments.

To simulate the sound of a classical guitar well on a keyboard instrument (not only on Pianoteq, but on any other instrument), you need to know how to play classical guitar.
Pretending to play a piano/keyboard style guitar will always sound unnatural, artificial.

I have no interest in the guitar model even though they gave it to me.

Thanks for the suggestion about Ample Guitars. I went to their website and downloaded their demo classical Guitar and it loaded the player without the sounds. I can't find anything on their site about this

their demos (projects) are different from their trials (actual software plus library) as i understand it

there's no trial of their classical 'luthier' but there are trial versions of other libraries so you can see how the software works. (note - as discussed elsewhere on this thread, this is one of the great advantages of pianoteq - full functioning demos of all instruments with just a few notes disabled.) On their downloads page under 'trials' the link to the library download is right next to the link to the software download.

this is an international forum so what is 'foreign' to you is 'local' to someone else

jacobspauly wrote:

Thank you! I'll be sure to check that out. How do you think it compares to the new Pianoteq one?

I've already invested in the ample sound guitars and am very happy with them for my purposes, so i haven't tried the pianoteq guitar and i can't tell you how they compare. but the ample sound guitars compare very favourably with the real thing for recording and have many awesome features

Nice to see pianoteq offering another option in this space - and a modelled one at that

Thanks for the suggestion about Ample Guitars. I went to their website and downloaded their demo classical Guitar and it loaded the player without the sounds. I can't find anything on their site about this and they have no contact numbers. This seems to be a common problem with foreign company's. I liked their demo but I can't try it out for myself. drag...

Are you a guitarist? Neither am I (but if you are, this post may not be for you).

So why exactly do we need guitar emulations? Can't use them in public without getting laughed at, very hard to use them in recordings with an authentic expression, so why, Modartt? Is there a target audience of "keytar" players somewhere?

I guess that the current economic crisis is affecting software companies, too, so why not using your ressources to refine Organteq 2 and of course focus on Pianoteq and it's family? I'd also love to see an overhaul on the electric pianos. Their sound is way too hard compared to, say, Lounge Lizard.

Sorry, but his time I have to really convince myself that I should support Pianoteq with an update to v8. If I buy, I will never use it's guitar. I just won't. If you are a guitarist and own Pianoteq, you're in luck and may use it skillfully, the rest of us will suck at playing (but yes, the Daniel Fisher video is very entertaining. just like skilled Launchpad players are good at fingerplaying drums). I guess Kontakt or Band-in-a-box will do the job much easier, if you are looking for authentic guitar playing. Sorry for ranting.

I'm an upright bassist and I have a huge need for this guitar emulation with my productions. Of course you can never emulate a real guitarist due to the trillion different ways you can strike a string but it is still useful and they will most certainly improve it thru time...

The lower key switches seem awkward so far for me because they apply to all notes when I only want to apply it to one. For instance if I want one note in a chord to be an open string, inserting a key switch will make all notes play on the open string and cancel each other. A little odd.

You can always try them in demo mode for free. Just to get a feel

yeah that's one of the fantastic things about pianoteq and one of the reasons i ended up buying it in the first place

no reason to demo something i don't want or need though