Audio Plugin Deals Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 Guitarist by Sugar Bytes is a virtual guitar that’s designed to emulate rhythm parts played on an electric guitar. The actual guitar player has been transformed into a step sequencer system with a huge level of customisation when it comes to chords or fingering patterns and a detailed control over authentic nuance and expression. Get Guitarist now at 66% off for a limited time only, hurry and save! Deal page: https://audioplugin.deals/deal-1 Deal expires on February 3rd, 2021 at midnight eastern standard time KEY FEATURES Four electric Guitars with more to come soon More than 2,000 Samples for each Sixstring Control over Strum, Chords & Song Structures Action Section for real-time Control Slides, Vibratos or Portamentos Warm Amps and Direct-Out 10 Effects plus Wahwah Pedal & Talkmode Mute or De-tune individual Strings Requires macOS 10.9 or higher: Audio Unit, VST2, AAX, Standalone Requires Windows 7 or higher: VST2, AAX, Standalone 1
Doug Rintoul Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 (edited) This is really old software and this review from 2010 was not that great. https://www.musicradar.com/reviews/tech/sugar-bytes-guitarist-303497 The current version is only 1.05 and it does not seem that much has changed since 2010 (except dropping 32 bit support). Does anybody have any recent experience with this? Like Vernon, I was initially interested. Not so much now. Edited January 21, 2021 by Doug Rintoul
Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 Some thoughts after installing Yes, it sounds somewhat "robotic" as the review points out, it may be ok for certain applications but it doesn't feel general purpose. The included effects aren't great, but nowadays I expect that anyway it is good practice to use virtual instruments in conjunction with a 3rd party plugin chain (whether it is something like guitar rig, amplitube, etc, or it is a chain of individual plugins) The tuning knobs "work" and it's possible to de-tune individual strings. I'm not sure how useful it will be for me but it's certainly "interesting" having a choice of a poorly tuned guitar...
Fleer Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 Gotta get it. Love anything from SugarBytes. Already got most of their stuff, so I’ll give it a go.
paulo Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 57 minutes ago, Eusebio Rufian-Zilbermann said: it's certainly "interesting" having a choice of a poorly tuned guitar... I've already got three of those.
paulo Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 I'm not sure if that video is meant to make me want it or to put me off.........?
Doug Rintoul Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 Looks like I need to download the demo and try it out. I watched some videos on the Sugar Bytes site and am now more interested.
Kurre Posted January 22, 2021 Posted January 22, 2021 It's in my pricerange so i bought it yesterday. The robotic thing should be better with a little humanizing of the midinotes.
Doug Rintoul Posted January 22, 2021 Posted January 22, 2021 I went ahead and bought it as well. I am actually having a lot of fun with it. It is actually a pretty good bit of kit. I was a bit hesitant because development has stopped completely it seems. There was talk about additional guitars including an acoustic guitar and other features but that was back in 2013 and nothing since. It does have midi out and midi drag and drop so you are not limited to the guitars it comes with that issue is mitigated somewhat. 2
Fleer Posted January 22, 2021 Posted January 22, 2021 Wondering what they may still do with this in the future. SugarBytes are quite good at creating interesting music software. One of my favorite developers.
Kurre Posted January 22, 2021 Posted January 22, 2021 42 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said: I went ahead and bought it as well. I am actually having a lot of fun with it. It is actually a pretty good bit of kit. I was a bit hesitant because development has stopped completely it seems. There was talk about additional guitars including an acoustic guitar and other features but that was back in 2013 and nothing since. It does have midi out and midi drag and drop so you are not limited to the guitars it comes with that issue is mitigated somewhat. Yup. It's fun. I tweeked a blues preset to sound like a zztop creation. Also in the blues presets there's the wahwah thing. If i had record that gig with me moving the wah handle to the beat i'll bet noone could think robotic.
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