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by bennash - 06/07/26 09:34 PM
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I am a Garageband user and play keyboards only, so I'm wondering what is the best way to record guitar parts so that they sound as "real" as possible? I use my keyboard to play them, and the sounds are of very good quality, but I was wondering what I could do in the recording/engineering process to perhaps improve on it even more.
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Daphna: I have had pretty good luck (after MUCH trial & error) by lengthening each note to overlap the following note & then playing around with the note velocities (I use Cubase). If you're playing the parts in, the note velocities are never going to be the same, so that's probably OK. The hard part is to get it sounding legato. All my music is made on the PC - I use a combination of MIDI keyboard input & the mouse for the parts I can't play. David www.cdbaby.com/aardvark - Instrumental Rock www.cdbaby.com/polaris - New Age/Classical
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Unfortunately stringed instruments are the absolute hardest thing to recreate using samples. There are just to many factors built into the sound of a stringed instrument to make it easy to recreate. This includes Orchestrated strings like Violas and such. One thing that I would consider is this: How valuable is your time? I know people that spend ridiculous amounts of time attempting to create parts from samples - working as hard as they can to get them to sound "real", all to save a few bucks. When in reality if they could just explain to a person who plays that instrument, what they're looking for (or just write it up in notation), it would probably cost them very little and it would get done in much less time. My suggestion is, find a guitar player in your area, it isn't hard. Go to the local music store, ask who some of the better guitar players are. I'd be willing to bet you could find a guitar player who is good, who will record a guitar part for you on a song for $25. He/She will likely get it done in less than one hour and you'll have a guitar part that is real. Hope that helps. Jody ------------------ Music That Makes Your Soul Happy! www.jodywhitesides.com
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