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zeruf · Post by **zeruf** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:09 pm

I'm looking for a nice electric guitar vsti, or whatever works best. I have slayer and slayer 2 but I'm wondering if anyone can suggest something better for a rock sounding lead guitar. Even a good sample library and amp if that works better.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:28 pm

Check out the Pettinhouse stuff. He's got some video demos on his site that are very well done. Reasonably priced, the Direct Guitar package covers a lot of bases. I personally use the X-Gear/Amplitube stuff for FX/amp emulation.

Karmacomposer · Post by **Karmacomposer** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:31 pm

Realstrat is a pretty nice elec. guitar synth - made by musiclab.

Check out Manyguitar. It's not a true guitar rompler per se, but man does it sound good.

Mike

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:32 pm

If you own kontakt then orange tree samples core guitar strawberry is the best I've used.

jeffn1 · Post by **jeffn1** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:34 pm

I used Prominy LPC on Trick or Treat and Harmonic Propulsion (and Time-Space Continuum, using the distorted library without additional distortion).

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=9221

jeffn1

Gregjazz · Post by **Gregjazz** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:40 pm

Check out this awesome new video of Matt Guillory playing the CoreGuitar Strawberry electric guitar for Kontakt, from Orange Tree Samples:

Matt is an incredible keyboardist and a great guy, too! Check out some of his other videos to hear more of his playing.

zeruf · Post by **zeruf** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:04 pm

From the sounds Prominy LPC is what I'm looking for.

Mistheria · Post by **Mistheria** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:26 pm

Hi,

I can suggest you two excellent products that slightly differ each other but both are excellent, two state-of-art pieces!

I use them both on any my productions, results are simply impressive!

Prominy "SC Electric Guitar"
http://www.prominy.com

EastWest "Ministry of Rock"
http://www.soundsonline-europe.com

If you need just Guitar emulation, SC Electric Guitar by Prominy gives you the complete solution. LPC (Les Paul emulation) is also excellent and available in LE (cheaper) version as well.

If you are looking for a virtual rock band, including bass and drums, so Ministry of Rock by EastWest do its best job here.

Check them out and find your solution because it's there... guaranteed!

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:37 pm

Mistheria wrote:Hi,

I can suggest you two excellent products that slightly differ each other but both are excellent, two state-of-art pieces!

I use them both on any my productions, results are simply impressive!

Prominy "SC Electric Guitar"
http://www.prominy.com

EastWest "Ministry of Rock"
http://www.soundsonline-europe.com

If you need just Guitar emulation, SC Electric Guitar by Prominy gives you the complete solution. LPC (Les Paul emulation) is also excellent and available in LE (cheaper) version as well.

If you are looking for a virtual rock band, including bass and drums, so Ministry of Rock by EastWest do its best job here.

Check them out and find your solution because it's there... guaranteed!

Sorry for butting in here, but I'm after some funk guitar type E-guitar library and was looking at chris hein individual clean e-guitar download, as it's only £85 but does this Prominy 'SC Electric Guitar' do good funk sounds, I just listened to the demo's but they were all rock but there is no way I'd of been able to tell that it was samples at all - highly impressive stuff but any good for funk? It's the last thing on my to buy list a good Funk E-guitar!

Mistheria · Post by **Mistheria** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:00 am

breakmixer wrote:
Mistheria wrote:Hi,

I can suggest you two excellent products that slightly differ each other but both are excellent, two state-of-art pieces!

I use them both on any my productions, results are simply impressive!

Prominy "SC Electric Guitar"
http://www.prominy.com

EastWest "Ministry of Rock"
http://www.soundsonline-europe.com

If you need just Guitar emulation, SC Electric Guitar by Prominy gives you the complete solution. LPC (Les Paul emulation) is also excellent and available in LE (cheaper) version as well.

If you are looking for a virtual rock band, including bass and drums, so Ministry of Rock by EastWest do its best job here.

Check them out and find your solution because it's there... guaranteed!
Sorry for butting in here, but I'm after some funk guitar type E-guitar library and was looking at chris hein individual clean e-guitar download, as it's only £85 but does this Prominy 'SC Electric Guitar' do good funk sounds, I just listened to the demo's but they were all rock but there is no way I'd of been able to tell that it was samples at all - highly impressive stuff but any good for funk? It's the last thing on my to buy list a good Funk E-guitar!

Hi,

if you're looking for a funk-oriented guitar sound, RealStrat by MusicLab is really nice and can cover also other styles (pop, rock, ...): http://www.musiclab.com

Anyway, with the right playing/programming, amp simulation and the right preset, you can get your funk guitar from all of the plugins I mentioned:

MusicLab "RealStrat"
http://www.musiclab.com

Prominy "SC Electric Guitar"
http://www.prominy.com

EastWest "Ministry of Rock"
http://www.soundsonline-europe.com

eDrummist · Post by **eDrummist** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:15 am

breakmixer wrote: Sorry for butting in here, but I'm after some funk guitar type E-guitar library and was looking at chris hein individual clean e-guitar download, as it's only £85 but does this Prominy 'SC Electric Guitar' do good funk sounds, I just listened to the demo's but they were all rock but there is no way I'd of been able to tell that it was samples at all - highly impressive stuff but any good for funk? It's the last thing on my to buy list a good Funk E-guitar!

I always thought the Prominy demos sounds great. It's made with a ton of samples -- even more, in addition to the Strat, they have a Les Paul, which is my favorite electric guitar. IMO, Prominy's Strat and LPC and Orange Tree Samples Strawberry are incredibly realistic, but Prominy has chord strums and Strawberry doesn't. I own just about every electric and acoustic guitar sample library out there, plus VSTs like RealStrat and VirtualGuitarist. (I'm a customer of and have even provided marketing advice to several of the guitar and bass sample developers, additional choices you should consider checking into include Pettinhouse and Lyrical Distortion.) I know of a couple of KVR users who have Prominy, like JeffN1, who have told me that it is very, very difficult to use. Consequently, on their advice, I have avoided it, but admit that I regularly re-visit the Prominy site thinking about whether I could deal with the usability challenge and should add it to my libraries.

That said, considering usability (or ease of use) and realism, my top choices to date have been RealStrat (Music Lab is coming out a Les Paul version soon), mainly for its strumming abilities, and Strawberry from Orange Tree Samples (one of the developers I advise). RealStrat's sample qualities are not as high quality as Prominy or Orange Tree Samples, but it's great for strums. If you can hold on a couple of weeks or so, Orange Tree Samples is working on an add on for its Strawberry electric guitar that does strums that should be excellent.

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:19 am

Mistheria wrote: Hi,

if you're looking for a funk-oriented guitar sound, RealStrat by MusicLab is really nice and can cover also other styles (pop, rock, ...): http://www.musiclab.com

Anyway, with the right playing/programming, amp simulation and the right preset, you can get your funk guitar from all of the plugins I mentioned:

MusicLab "RealStrat"
http://www.musiclab.com

Prominy "SC Electric Guitar"
http://www.prominy.com

EastWest "Ministry of Rock"
http://www.soundsonline-europe.com

Thanks alot for the reply, is Chris Hein's not as good as RealStrat or Prominy as Funk just used the Clean E-Guitar sound mostly(combined with wah wah/amp sims)? from my research into it and that's the cheapest option, almost half the price of RealStrat, You can just download the Clean E-Guitar(instead of 'Guitars' full library) from Chris Hein's shop and it comes with kontakt 2 also, good option or not....

Cheers again....

eDrummist · Post by **eDrummist** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:25 am

breakmixer wrote:Thanks alot for the reply, is Chris Hein's not as good as RealStrat or Prominy as Funk just used the Clean E-Guitar sound mostly(combined with wah wah/amp sims)? from my research into it and that's the cheapest option, almost half the price of RealStrat, You can just download the Clean E-Guitar(instead of 'Guitars' full library) from Chris Hein's shop and it comes with kontakt 2 also, good option or not....

Cheers again....

I've read posts from a lot of happy customers of Chris Hein's Guitar, but I don't own it. Personally, I'm not crazy about the guitar tone on the demos (that's just a subjective, personal preference thing), but if you like it, you should get it. It does strumming. Chris is a very respected developer with a good deal of satisfied customers. I've read it's a very usable product.

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:27 am

Cheers edrummist, I haven't got Kontakt so it's really

1. buy prominy(has k2) most expensive but best sound
2. buy RealStrat, mid priced
3. buy Chris hein E-guitar - cheapest, e-guitar only download(has k2)

just want to know how chris hein compares with the other 2.....thanks

Edit - you answered already, before i asked you

thanks

breakmixer · Post by **breakmixer** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 12:31 am

eDrummist wrote:
breakmixer wrote:Thanks alot for the reply, is Chris Hein's not as good as RealStrat or Prominy as Funk just used the Clean E-Guitar sound mostly(combined with wah wah/amp sims)? from my research into it and that's the cheapest option, almost half the price of RealStrat, You can just download the Clean E-Guitar(instead of 'Guitars' full library) from Chris Hein's shop and it comes with kontakt 2 also, good option or not....

Cheers again....
I've read posts from a lot of happy customers of Chris Hein's Guitar, but I don't own it. Personally, I'm not crazy about the guitar tone on the demos (that's just a subjective, personal preference thing), but if you like it, you should get it. It does strumming. Chris is a very respected developer with a good deal of satisfied customers. I've read it's a very usable product.

To tell you the truth the demo's for funk didn't blow me away neither, but I thought it was more down to how it was getting used and the style of the demo...

I think Prominy blows Realstrat clean out the water, but Realstrat is good I watched the Voodoo Chile??!! youtube video, but Prominy was too my ears a real Strat sound, so real it was unreal, if that makes sense!

Best virtual guitar?