Re: [LAU] Possible to have realistic guitar strumming sounds using my keyboard?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Rob <lau@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 04:42 am, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>> No arguments here on the last sentence. I'd still like to know how
>> feasible it is though, and if anyone has any pointers. Basically, to put
>> it very bluntly, I'm a much better keyboardist than guitarist =p.
>
> Years ago I was able to do what I considered to be passable downstrums
> after practicing a lot, but even then, I'd only want to use those as
> accents in a song otherwise carried by keyboard sounds, not as actual
> rhythm guitar parts -- if it's possible to simulate alternating downstrums
> and upstrums fast enough to do that, it would have to be done by someone
> who's a much better player than I am.  I think the key is to make sure you
> keep in mind what is and isn't possible on a guitar.  The subset of that
> that's also possible on a keyboard is what you have to work with.  I ended
> up buying a basic acoustic/electric for a hundred bucks, and as poor as I
> am at guitar, I still do better with it.  (Getting a good recording of it
> is what makes me still not do it very often.)
>
> I vaguely remember that there was some Windows software that would
> "strumify" MIDI chords for you back in the 90s in non-realtime, and the
> demos sounded pretty passable, but I never tried that.

My accompaniment generator, MMA, attempts to do strumming. It's not
bad, but not great either. The biggest problem is that when you strum
a guitar you're not really just hitting one string after another ...
and that's what my program does ... simply puts in a timing delay
between each note. Like others have said, best to play a guitar (or
sax or kazo...) if you want a specific sound :)

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