emulating the sound of a guitar

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Not sure where this question would go, but as I'm using Cakewalk SONAR, figured I'd throw it here.

I've got a good amount of sampled guitar sounds (both riffs and single notes), and I've got an Alesis QS7.1 Synth (read "Keyboard" unless you have intimate knowledge of the QS and can help). I'd like to record guitar parts for a lot of my projects, but instead I'm usually forced to leave them out due to a poor ability to emulate the sound of a guitar.

Anybody have any advice? Either for how to get a guitar sound out of a synthesizer, or how to take a sample (even a single-note or strum) and make it sound realistic. (Getting a real live guitar player to play the parts isn't an option at the moment, unfortunately.)
 
A million guitar players with no gigs and you want to make it a million and one!
Keyboard players trying to sound like guitar players.
Guitar players trying to sound like keyboard players.
This world is going to hell in a handbasket.
I know that did'nt help but I GOTTA GET RID OF THAT DARN NEWBIE STATUS.
 
To get a more realistic sounding guitar out of a synth module (actually it was a SoundFont), I have recorded the midi stream as an audio file and processed it with Cakewalk's amp simulator. It sounds pretty convincing. Listen to the song "everchange" (particularly the last 30 sec.) at:

http://besonic.com/crossing

The electric guitar in this song is from a Sonic Implant demo SoundFont that was available at the CreativeLabs site for a while.

The other synth sounds were captured from an Alesis QS6.1 through the line in of a SoundBlaster 32. The acoustic guitar and vocals were recorded with a $50 Media Play microphone using a Radio Shack “Y” cable through the mic in of the same card -- so it is defiantly a "Low-Fi" recording.

I recently acquired some better equipment and hope to rerecord the song.
 
I believe Craig Anderton is working on a guitar sample CD. You might want to check that out.
 
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