I saw Clints post, went to Toontrk and got the discount, and picked up two videos. I am almost through with the first one (was watching it while installing all my stuff) which is about getting to know EZKeys. Found out a lout about what I had been missing. I am impressed enough that I might get the monthly deal for a while and pick up on other stuff.

Part 3 of the 4 part Songwriting with EZ Keys, is out at Toontrack.
http://www.toontrack.com/news/writing-songs-with-ezkeys-ep-2-2/

Hey Guys, 
 
Just catching up on this thread - glad you are all enjoying the videos! 
 
Question: Are any of you into RealGuitar from Musiclab? 
 
Eli Krantzberg

Just a quick word, Mr Krantzberg, to tell you how much I appreciate your tutorials. Your voice is perfect for education. Although I generally prefer MacProVideo to Groove3, you absolutely rock!

Eli Krantzberg
Hey Guys, 
 
Just catching up on this thread - glad you are all enjoying the videos! 
 
Question: Are any of you into RealGuitar from Musiclab? 
 
Eli Krantzberg

Hi Eli,
 
I have Real Guitar and I've just been getting into the song arranger portion (for strumming).
 
BTW I found your EZKeys writing series to be an excellent eye opener for me and I've been using EZKeys since it came out.

Love your EZ Keys videos Eli. But sorry, I play a "real" guitar.

The reason I am asking about RealGuitar is because I just finished a series on it (it'll be released on groove3 shortly). And I find it, like EZ Keys, to be a great songwriting tool. Of course if you play guitar it will be of less use :-) But as a non guitar player, I am surprised at what this plug-in can do. I haven't heard a lot of "buzz" about it on the various forums. So was just curious about who is using it.....
 
Anyway, thanks again to all of you for your support!
 
Eli Krantzberg

The thing I like about EZ Keys is it helps me approach songs from a different angle  and that's a valuable thing. If some guitar software could do that I would be willing to look at it. I'll check it out.

Eli Krantzberg
The reason I am asking about RealGuitar is because I just finished a series on it (it'll be released on groove3 shortly). And I find it, like EZ Keys, to be a great songwriting tool. Of course if you play guitar it will be of less use :-) But as a non guitar player, I am surprised at what this plug-in can do. I haven't heard a lot of "buzz" about it on the various forums. So was just curious about who is using it.....

I think on this board, more of us would be interested in the AAS GS2 Strum product, largely because an intro version is packaged with Sonar.
 
I do play guitar, but don't have a nylon string guitar.  I had been messing around with some flamenco style chords and came up with a cool rhythm, but that was purely on accident.  If I started with an idea in my head, I don't know if I could translate that easily into patterns on Strum.

Or those sweet OrangeTree guitars.