How To Make MIDI Guitar Sound Real

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Real guitar is always going to sound more authentic and have more character than a midi guitar programmed in your daw.

But not everyone plays guitar so sometimes you have to use MIDI.
Here are some helpful steps to get a more natural sounding guitar from MIDI.

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[jamesschmidt]

Speaking as someone with no musical instrument skills who is finally getting into GarageBand as a starting point for music creation, this tutorial is fantastic to set me on the right path to “humanizing” my synth guitar sounds.

[ApenstaartjeYT]

11:09 you can also change the velocity by control + Command + click and dragging up or down, just so you know!

[stopikitzy.]

1:27 So as we work- (god damn it) so as we showcase. I love that part XD. Good video btw.

[muhammadarifjaya]

My go-to electric guitar sound is a kontakt library from impact soundworks, shreddage. I know it's a metal forward library, but it's a raw guitar library, treating that library with pop forward tone is resulting quite good end product

[manuellayburr]

Speaking as a guitarist who is new to midi and VST, these guitar tips are spot-on.

[thebarbaryghostsf]

Thanks this had a lot of useful information, I hadn't considered when arranging guitar in midi.

[solracm]

You forgot to do the slightly bend down notes when you switch cords on the original guitar I heard it . Meaning when you slide your fingers to the next cord it makes like a slightly bend down or when you switch cord upwards there is a small band upwards at the time you switch while you slide your fingers. Upwards. If you can re -create that affect when you slide your fingers. Other than the squeaky sound. Forget it that would be the best of the best.

[Jamusictv]

Never disappoint! Such a great teacher and musician.

[daftstuff]

im only half way through your video right now and it has already helped me enormously. Many thanks indeed. I look forward to getting back to watch the rest after my amp pedal excursions :) prompted by your sharings

[musicproductionstreams]

This is one of the best channels for music production tutorial, all videos here are awesome!! Keep it up!

[abhigyanborah]

I was just thinking of searching some tutorials on this last night, and you made one! :P Thanks Shane <3

[ElitecomandosSky]

Thank you man, now my guitars sound amazing

[jimrogers]

Hey... thanks for this video. It would have been nice to have links to the two guitar sample libraries, but what you taught here was excellent... great for a beginner in MIDI guitar programming like me. Again... thanks!

[dxwallace]

I've been enjoying making DAW music for 4 years now, and in general, he is right. One thing I might disagree with though I could be in the wrong, is the the amps he mentioned, Guitar Rig, AmpliTube, and THU, had LOUSY sound for me, even though they are considered the best . When I transferred my DAW stuff to a new laptop, I didn't even reload those 3. What Worked for me was Evolution Strawberry and Evolution Rock Standard by Orange Tree Samples (he has one of the Evolution products at 1:21). He is right, I learned with Evolution, you turn off as many settings as possible to get a basic LesPaul or Strat dry sound.

Then, build from there with distortion, or Spring Reverb, cabinets and so on. Lotta "Playing Around" required. Even with Evolution, many of the settings sound horrible. The "Lovely Intro" setting in Evolution Rock Standard sounds amazingly clean and nice as a starter sound similar to a dry Les Paul. The second part to my sound is to add the S-Gear Virtual Guitar Amp plugin to a track that has my Evolution samples. This is where I differ from what he is saying, in that my Evolution has some amp and cabinet settings on, and my S-Gear has amp settings on as well, but it really depends on how all the interconnected settings sound together.

The pain is someone can do a demo of a product that sounds great, but it sounds horrible on your DAW. {sigh}

I found my guitars with an ambiance, slightly distorted sound to be very satisfactory, my clean guitar sounds are pretty easy to make happen, the Rock, high distorted sounds are still hard to get like I want. When I get a sound I like, I save it off as a template so I can pull it up on another song. It's takes some work, but I'm an IT guy, I'd rather do the work here than actually learning to play the guitars I bought {chuckle}. You'll have to learn through trial and error, like I learned many guitar sounds only sound nice when the velocity of your midi data is between 5 and 20. If you have it too high (like velocity 80), the sound is horrible (and with some settings the opposite is true). Lotta moving

On a more encouraging note, IK Multimenia's virtual Bass, MODO Bass sounds good out of the box and you'll have some good bass sounds on Day 1. Fifteen different basses, choice of tube or solid state amp, Old strings vs. New Strings, stress free product. I agree with him also in that acoustic sound is easier to make happen, Native Instruments Picked Acoustic works perfect for me, though a little work is required, but that's the fun of it

GOOD LUCK!!!!

[jamiebrown]

Great video but feel a bit cut short. Maybe do a follow up regarding effects, panning, and layering of guitars?

[LittleRichard]

Halion 6 has loads of decent acoustic and electric guitar sounds and even some of the guitars in the Kontakt factory
library are usable like the Jazz guitar. Even some of the guitars in my sound modules like my Roland SC-88 Pro and
Roland JV-1080 can still sound realistic if these same sort of tutorials are applied and even amp simulation elevates
the quality of the electric guitars on my sound modules. Another option is to use a mix of real and midi guitars
wherever possible as I have guitars but I can only play a limited set of chords. But then take the steel guitar on my
Roland U-220, it sounds nice with finger pick style playing but not so great for emulating strumming. There are also
loads of free guitar VSTs and free and low cost guitar libraries and even some of the free guitar VSTs can sound
half decent. Ample Guitar Lite sounds almost as good as any paid VST.

[dopessongs]

Some times dry is better if you need a clean crisp overall track. The echoes fight each other

[TheSwisspictures]

Thanks a lot for this video🙌🏻! This will help me to create the sounds I really want. I never knew how I should play midi guitar stuff to sound realistic.

[Nogan_Grape]

another guitarist here. spot-on points. Perhaps if non-guitarists mark the keys (or put actual placeholder notes in the midi grid, if they're not using a keyboard controller) to represent the notes of a tuned guitar, they'll see/know to put only one note in each space. E A D G B E

i was hoping you might have specific note spacing and velocity suggestions. i can't get the strumming right unless i midi in from a Godin multiac MIDI guitar.

[Patri_Fides]

I'm hoping they update Logic with a piano roll short cut for strumming like FL studio has. You can sort of do it with Q flam but not really.