On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Rob <lau@xxxxxxxxx> 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 :) -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
