Which Acoustic Guitar VST do you use?

I was looking at Indiginus Acoustic Guitar Collection and do like the simplicity of use/price ($40).
 
Also checked out Evolution's acoustic which sound fantastic, but a bit pricey ($179). I couldn't find any video demo's on this to see it in use.
 
I read some good things about Real Guitar (Musiclab), but there seems to be a steep learning curve and I don't want to spend a great deal of time programming.
 
Which sounds the most realistic to you guys and which is the easiest in strumming/picking patterns?  

I almost bought that too Starise but after demo'ing it, I didn't care for it.

I use Indiginus for simplicity and Orange Tree Steel Strings for a full feature set.

I find it easier to get something down quickly using Indiginus. I prefer to use the "strum maker live" option rather than the strum sequencer which has all the pros and cons of a step sequencer. The main drawback is you can only define 12 chords at one time. Strumming is straight forward. One chord assigned to one note with the down and upstrokes an octave apart. Velocity switching controls the articulations. Its pretty easy to bash out a part and clean it up if required in PRV.

Orange Tree use a similar chord detection system to Music Labs so you get twelve different strum articulations for a very wide range of chords.  Basically hold a chord down with one hand and the different strums are mapped to notes and triggered by the other hand. Of course it also has a strum sequencer.

Both need the full version of Kontakt, Real Guitar is stand alone.

Glyn Barnes

Both need the full version of Kontakt, Real Guitar is stand alone.

Has anyone tried Indiginus Acoustic Guitar Collection with the new Kontakt 5?

Geeze...there are just so many libraries out there now.  And like the Efimov libraries above...so many good ones!  I wish there was a "clearing house" site for all the available Kontakt compatible libraries...it would sure make searching for a particular instrument or sound easier.  Thanks for the Efimov tout...love the Nylon Guitar.

Indiginus does offer a free version of StrumMaker that you can try. I've not used it, though. I find pseudo-"strumming" faux-guitars awkward and unnatural-sounding. It's a lot easier to just get out a real guitar and strum it myself. I reserve the guitar libraries for stuff I can't play for real, like fast intricate picking or scorching leads.

There is a dropdown menu in the Kontakt options dialog that enables MIDI output, labeled something like "send MIDI to the outside world". I've never tried it, though.

Since I had Kontakt 4...when I saw Indiginous and the strum maker I had to get it. 

Being a guitar player with a crappy sounding cheap acoustic, I though maybe......... but not really. 


It does sound good,  and,  if you are not a guitar player, it's a worth while investment,  but a serious picker can pick it out in a flash as sampled. 

I also bought strummaker and the dulcimer samples.  I don't use them very often but I have them if and when I need them. 

If you have K4 or K5, they are very affordable and sound good. 


One of the biggest problems to getting a guitar sampler to sound right is learning how to play it properly on a keyboard so it doesn't sound like a sampler played on a keyboard. All the cats in the demo's on the websites pretty much have mastered that technique well enough to make a convincing video to encourage you to buy the product.  I guess if you have respectable keyboard chops, it would not be too hard to learn, however, if you are not a keyboard player, making it sound real would be a bit harder..... just a guess. 

These emulations have most if not all common articulations built in via velocity or key switching plus they have built in pre figured "strums" and strum patterns you can choose from and/or play with single keys.  For some things they are quite amazing.

Yellow Tools Free ;  If it's still available that is :  Has a really good nylon guitar. It's about a 2 gig down load for a very nice library.

Here's a video by Geert Bevin, playing Evolution Acoustic Guitar through his Eigenharp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oihkibWc3E8

While it uses a strum palette system instead of strum patterns, I'm going to be adding the ability to having strumming patterns as well as strum keys in the Kontakt 4 update.

If you have any questions about EAG Steel Strings, just let me know!

Mesh


Hi Greg,
If I were to purchase EAG today, would the strumming pattern updates be included when it's released? or would it be part of a new product you're releasing?

Yeah, the strumming pattern system would be included in the update when it's released. This is a free update for all owners of the Evolution electric and acoustic guitars, and features an entirely new script / interface for better playability, realism, and ease of use.

  Just my take, but I sold my copy of RealGuitar after Evolution Acoustic Guitar came out. Listen to the Evolution Acoustic Guitar demos (http://www.orangetreesamp...-guitar-steel-strings) and RealGuitar and I think you can here a dramatic difference between these two products in terms of the tone of the guitars and realism. The underlying samples used in RealGuitar just didn't sound that nice to my ears. I don't know if the problem is a cheap guitar, mics, recording techniques or a combination of all of that, but whatever it is, RealGuitar just doesn't have the kind of beautiful tone that EAG has (or Illya's nylon guitar for that matter, which I don't own, but sounds really nice in the demos).