It sounds like for both something like archtop and strat/teles, OTS and ISW are comparable? I already have the OTS archtop, but not the strat. I guess I was looking to try something different, but would you say the ISW engines are generally worse for this kind of thing? My understanding is that ISW has more roundrobin/reptitions sometimes, but might be harder to program. Would I go wrong trying to use the Tele ISW for some strumming and lead?The ISW archtop is amazing!! Less for strumming though unfortunately. I'm a big fan of all of ISW's stuff. For guitars of theirs I only use archtop, Django, and the old shreddage mega chug power chord library. Django has a whole strumming instrument that (if I'm remembering correctly) uses sampled chord strums that can be sequences in the instrument or played in your daw via midi. It works great for that style. I've had less luck with trying strumming/ rhythm stuff with archtop, but I think I'm using an older version.Hmm so I might already have the best I can work with. I never found Orange Tree's strumming easy to work with because it's based on creating patterns. It seems like you haven't used Shreddage, but the thing I like about it so far is that the editing is done in the DAW. I don't know how those libraries compare with Orange Trees / whether they'd complement each other.Orange tree samples' Libraries can do some very decent rhythm work if you can perform it on keys or are willing to spend the time on midi programming. The strum mode is very workable. I always really loved the strumming engines in real guitar/ real strat as well as the electri6city stuff but the rest of the libraries are a bit weak.
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They also have an archtop and wonder how it compared with Orange Tree's version.
Would anyone be able to comment? If anyone's used both, I'd be curious.
RealStrat would probably be good to try too, yes, though I wonder how long it's been since they've updated.
I use orange tree stuff for 99% of my guitar needs. My son is getting pretty good at playing though so I may just start get him to lay down stuff. Anyway I don't use any of the sequence based stuff in the OTS libraries. I generally load a second instance of whichever library (I have very many of Greg's libraries) and change the settings/ key switches for rhythm playing. Usually this involves adjusting the dynamic range under settings and changing what velocities trigger various amounts of muting etc. all the OTS libraries have an upstroke and downstroke trigger which will replay the last chord input via midi. There's also a way to have each string ring out until a new note is triggered on that string.
The thing/ things I miss about real strat/ electri6city are the smart chord recognition (they can both detect a simple piano chord voicing and automatically convert it to a guitar voicing and do it in different neck positions depending on which octave/ inversion you play each chord. Greg has a built in chord recognizer but it's less in depth and different positions are controlled separately via cc.
Some of this stuff may have changed as libraries have been updated and whatnot but I was using all this stuff quite a bit on a day to day basis for some shows I was scoring a while back so I'm basing this off of that.
The NI stuff is fine for what it is. For simple "pop" and "rock" arrangements the Sunburst and Acoustic libraries can definitely work fine. I always wanted funk guitarist to be updated and for their other guitar libraries to be more like FG, but that doesn't appear to be on the cards.
Good luck
JJ
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