Lucy wrote:I personally do not have high expectations to replicate exactly guitar finger play.
Well, with the right samples in all the right places, some modest measure of realism is possible. Here's a short improvisation on the Efimov Nylon (a sample library for NI Kontakt). Not 100% convincing, I agree, but not complete rubbish either, I'd say.
(The strings of the Efimov can be selected with key-switches, by the way, which makes it perfectly possible to play the same note on different strings.)
As for modelling guitars: IK Multimedia did a magnificent job with their MODO bass. True, electric basses are not nylon guitars, and the timbres, resonances and sonic complexities of a nylon guitar are infinitely more organic and varied than those of the average electric bass, but what MODO definitely shows is that many of the playing techniques of a stringed instrument, as well as the behaviour of strings, can not only be modelled very convincingly, but that they can also be translated/implemented quite successfully in an instrument that's triggered from the keyboard. (Good sample libraries, like the ones from AmpleSound and the better Kontakt-libraries, also offer pretty good solutions for playing a guitar from the keyboard.)
Having said all that, personally, I don't think Modartt should start doing guitars. For starters, if they don't come up with truly excellent results (that can at the very least compete with the best sampled instruments) the whole project will only damage the company's reputation — the last thing I would like to see is Modartt releasing bad- and synthetic-sounding, cheap-ish virtual guitaroïds, only to prove that they can do it —, secondly, a good and playable Pianoteq Guitar would require a drastic revision of the software and interface (to accommodate for all the guitar-specific timbral and performance parameters) and, finally and most important of all: there still is a lot — a HUGE lot — of ground unexplored and unconquered in the area of modelling pianos. I, for one, hope that's where the focus remains.
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Last edited by Piet De Ridder (08-06-2017 21:37)