When you start with that and compose for that tuning on your virtual guitar, you can either detune the whole VI and have all the notes in the midi Editor be wrong, or you use the proper notes but the string assignment on the virtual guitar is all wrong and you have to be very mindful of whether or not the thing you are writing is even feasibly playable on your guitar. I bet sooner or later you'll want to use non-standard tunings on your real guitar, like e.g. I often do that to mark the playable range of a sample library in the midi editor. So in Reaper for example you could just double right click that note on the piano roll and name it "lowest". an 8 string VI and you want to later play the piece on your 6-string VI, you just have to remember while composing not to use any notes that are lower than your lowest string on the 6-string is tuned. Imho those are more important and a hell of a rabbit-hole to go into. And since you didn't mention them yet, you might be underestimating the effects that different amp-sims and cab IRs have on the sound. But I do think you are over-estimating the effect that additional strings have (assuming you only use them when you actually need them) and also over-estimating how much more complicated that makes things. Also the way the instruments were sampled with specific styles in mind can be a factor.
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This might be all arse about face, as I say I am not very experienced.ĭifferent Guitars and Basses sound different, and may be more or less well suited for certain styles, that's true. So if there is a song I love the sound of and I want a similar sound, I will want to know what number of strings the lead is, the bass etc, then setup those instruments for a piece inspired by it. That way it helps me stay within certain parameters and get an authentic sound. Second reason is when trying to compose / produce music with a certain feel I prefer to use the type of instruments that the band / genre tends to use. I don't want the added confusion of having say an 8 string but ignoring 2 strings as I will end up using the extra strings by accident and if I then decide to go with a physical 6 string lead I dont want to have accidently composed something the guitar can't do. So I want to give my self a range of instruments in regard to lead / bass and string count then when I settle on one or two that I prefer I will buy the physical instruments and learn to play. Genre wise I am looking at metal, rock, blues, country, funk and quite a few others. I haven't decided yet exactly what I would like to play. I would much rather compose my own songs in Ableton then learn to play my own songs after. However I do want to learn to play well, and up until now I had been rote learning famous songs. What I can do in the DAW outstrips my actual playing ability by a reasonable margin and I don't want my physical playing ability to bottleneck me.
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With learning theory, how to produce, actually being able to play, learning to use the DAW etc.īut now I have been focusing on DAW / virtual instruments I am able to focus more on music theory and am managing to compose my own songs. Something that has frustrated me with playing real guitar, composing etc is that I just haven't had time to learn enough to be able to make my own pieces of music of a high standard.
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I am very new to DAWs / vitual instruments but have really started getting into it. If it is only worth getting a single 6 string and single 7 string which would you recommend and why? I believe there are recorded clean so presumably one can sound pretty much like the other. Any reason to have all 3? I assume what you can do with one you can do with the other. Is there any real point in owning multiple shreddage instruments with the same number of strings? So for instance there are three 7 string leads. That leaves the 6 string and 7 string lead. I don't think there is a 4 string bass so that's easy as well. There is only 1 6 string bass, the abyss so that's easy. There is only one 5 string bass, the precision, so that's easy. I would like a 6 string, 7 string and 8 string lead as well as a 4 string, 5 string and 6 string bass.Īs far as I can tell there is only one shreddage 8 string, the hydra, so that's easy. So I am considering padding out my library with some decent guitars and I am interested in shreddage.