You must have a lot of patience to want to get perfectly quantized audio recordings. I gave up on trying that ages ago, and now am just using midi tracks and synths to get everything sounding correct.

Me too, Vab --- except for guitar. I've been playing fingerstyle guitar for many years (over 50!) and I just want to make recordings of the real me playing my real original (midi) arrangements. I'm getting too old now to show off much in real time and even have steadiness trouble when I try to record. That's why quantizing has become so important for me.

If you said that after all the punch recording and quantizing it isn't the real me that I end up hearing anyway, I'll agree but ask that you promise not to tell anyone. :)

Yea I have no clue what you mean by finger style. My only experience with a guitar was a friend trying to teach me how to play twinkle twinkle little star on one ... And I was hopeless and everyone laughed. Like the time I couldn't figure out how to turn a mac on, everyone laughed too.

But when I was like 4 years old I was playing all those kiddie songs effortlessly on the piano, and was playing every scale by ear by age 7. I am piano wizard, I am not guitar or music production wizard :(

My next step to learn is how to create as accurate sounding guitar chords as possible in acoustic strum session. The backing track to my first song is about 80% complete, minus strummy guitar chords as the main melody on it is guitar based with just quiet fluttery piano chords as a background accompaniment, and another one of my ideas needs big overdriven guitar power chords.

And I also want squeaky finger string slide sounds too but have no idea how to make those. But for now I got strum session sounding perfect.

With my piano and addictive keys and other midi instruments, I can mostly play anything by ear, but I'm a slowpoke at getting it right.

If I did not play the guitar I would try to get a musically correct rhythm using acoustic strum session, and then groove quantize it or manually add different velocities for down strums vs up strums.

LOL I try to get squeaky finger string slide sounds OUT of my tracks!

I've been able to get good distortion guitar sounds from my keyboard using Amplitube 3, but the most fun is to use the audio out of my keyboard to plug into a real guitar stomp box distortion pedal. Then plug the output of that into my soundcard input. That way I can hear what the distortion sounds like while I'm playing it.

Oh I see. No squeaky strings without an actual guitarist then :(