midi to sound like guitar

[sean.hanlon]

I wanted to get the midi notes that I'm programming in Cubase to sound like an actual guitar. From what I understand, this is not very feasible due to the fact that a keyboard sounds so fundamentally different in the way the notes are played. If anyone knows of a sampler(?) that can achieve this, I'd be very thankful. I'm not as interested in getting chords to sound good, as I'm adequate at rhythm guitar and can record the audio myself. If it could just make lead lines sound good, that would be enough.

 

[tdukex]

My experience with MIDI is that you are unable to do pull-offs, hammer-ons, slides, etc. However, with guitar samples (which you can buy CDs of) I think you can achieve what you want. You'll probably need some looping software like Acid Music and a wave editor like Sound Forge XP--both about $50. You also might want to look into Gigasampler. I hear it's awesome.

 

[sean.hanlon]

I appreciate your feedback.
I got an understanding of that this weekend when I discovered that I could record my own samples into the keyboard I had and then trigger them with midi. At first I was thrilled, but after recording some guitar and then playing it back, I realized it still basically sounded like a keyboard. I am running Cubase right now, and do have a cd with guitar samples...it tends to be hard to find samples that work with the songs I'm playing. Plus once you edit the tempo & pitch in time bandit, the sample loses a lot of sound quality (unless I'm doing something wrong). Maybe I need a cd with a larger sample selection?