MIDI Guitar 3 & Virtual Electric Guitars 2024

There is a plethora of brilliant virtual instruments on the market today. But that also means it can be hard to navigate. So here are some virtual electric guitars that are playable and well-sounding. Even though these recommendations and suggestions for setting up are specific to the use of the MIDI Guitar 3 software (it comes as an MPE controller with polyphonic bends), there may also be other setups and uses that may serve from a similar way of going about things as well. I can see Roli Seaboard users benefitting from this for instance.

Since I don't go into any particular detail about MIDI Guitar 3 in the video, I promised to leave some links here, and here they are:

What is MIDI Guitar 3 and how does it work?

Want to know more?

Want to know how to Set up MULTIS in KONTAKT?

0:00 Introduction
0:37 Eating my words: The Native instruments Electric Mint
1:00 NI Electric Mint
1:06 NI Electric Sunburst Deluxe/ OTS Texas Twang
1:55 Steps to make them work
2:55 Use a transposer to avoid Keyswitches
3:30 Bendrange setting and the "locked instruments"
4:05 Se to "No pressure" to avoid vibrato
5:10 Setting up Kontakt for polyphonic bends
6:20 Creating an instrument template
8:20 Start building the MULTI
9:55 Using the Orange Tree Samples instruments
10:00 Evolution Strawberry
10:45 Evolution Texas Twang
11:20 Layering
11:58 OTS Texas Twang/NI Electric Vintage
12:30 What's next? A Djent/Chug guitar
13:00 Outro

Gear used:

JamOrigin MIDI Guitar 3

[Plastidon]

This is exactly what I wanted to know, thank you

[tomwatson]

Excellent video again.

Relatively easy (for me) to follow.

[ambientview]

Thank you very much for the video you made. I bow deeply for the amount of work and energy you put into it. It helps me a lot to work with midi Guitar 3

[jumpstar]

That's cool you got it working so good. It opens up a lot of possibilities. Hopefully down the line things will be designed with these kinds of use cases in mind. But until then...

Hey, something I thought about. One of the problems for audio to note is the sampling frequency for accurate detection of pitch. It isnt usually a problem, but for lower notes it naturally takes longer to converge at a solution.

It just struck me that if you tune your guitar up it will give the DSP code a helping hand by raising the frequency of bass notes. Of course you would need to transpose it back down before feeding into the downstream virtual instrument, but that isn't difficult.

Probably this is a well known trick, but thought I would throw it out there.

[katyland]

Good video, as usual. However, your link to the MG3 Beta, is not working for me.

[NACHOXVALLE]

U've made it, truely astounding, u've opened a huge Pandora's box, in a blessing way.

[ThreeBeingOne]

I was literally just thinking about that

[mikebryant]

Thanks!
- I had been scratching my head on a solution with this exact problem! Very much appreciated. When will Midi Guitar 3 be available as a Windows in-DAW plugin?

[luismartin]

Muchas gracias por tus explicaciones. Yo estoy en el punto de vender mi Boss GP10 y usar solamente el próximo Midi guitar 3. La duda que tengo es si los sonidos de guitarra de nylon sonarán con la expresión y legatos suficientes como para parecer reales. Muchas gracias por este prometedor software.