Wanted to share my fake guitar sound made with a basic synth patch, an open source IR VST, and free IR samples. (If anyone wants a tutorial for it I could make one.)
Wanted to share my fake guitar sound made with a basic synth patch, an open source IR VST, and free IR samples. (If anyone wants a tutorial for it I could make one.)

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Diatoms & Paramecium in Purple Lighting

I really like this guitar-ish sound. It scratches that itch for me as a keyboard player who yearns to know how to play guitar.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/38235793
I'm very happy with my fake guitar sound.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/bZNL08qahOQ
The TL;DR is: A basic Synth Pluck with a hint of velocity modulation drives an IR VST that adds that guitar-body tone. Then I distort the high end a bit to make the pluck feel more physical. Lastly, I do multi-band compression to tame the lows as most IR samples I tried for the body blew the lows into the stratosphere.
Here is the processing in order: