Members jetsbass Posted April 20, 2015 Members Share Posted April 20, 2015 Hello, I am looming for an external sound module that has realistic electric guitar sounds preferably distorted rock. I would be attaching this to my Roland GR-20 guitar synth that I use playing my bass guitar. I'm looking for something older that won't break the bank. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 1001gear Posted April 20, 2015 Members Share Posted April 20, 2015 So far it takes a guitar and amp. Samples are static and respond only to rudimentary control and at comparatively very low resolution at that. Modeling is nearly as bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keybdwizrd Posted April 20, 2015 Members Share Posted April 20, 2015 I can only speak as a keyboardist - for us, regardless of the sound, the challenge is to play parts on the keyboard that have the voicings and riffs that are guitarist-like, and not keyboardist-like. And it is just plain difficult to manipulate samples in a way that come off sounding like a real guitar. All that being said, you will find decent guitar samples in the Yamaha Motif modules, as well as Roland modules like the XV-5050. I have personal experience with those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Etienne Rambert Posted April 21, 2015 Members Share Posted April 21, 2015 Hello' date=' I am looming for an external sound module that has realistic electric guitar sounds preferably distorted rock. I would be attaching this to my Roland GR-20 guitar synth that I use playing my bass guitar. I'm looking for something older that won't break the bank. Thanks[/quote'] Acoustic is harder to get right than electric. I have some good electric guitar and distorted elec. guitar samples on my Korg M3M. Plus you can buy samples to load from 3rd party vendors. I agree w/Keybdwizard. Motif modules - especially Motif ES & later - are known for having excellent guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted April 21, 2015 Members Share Posted April 21, 2015 I think the key is to use guitar processors after dry guitar sounds. A good amp sim, wah-wah, distortion, etc. help give that "guitar character." Samples of distorted guitar don't work because the distortion occurs for each string...which can be a cool sound, but not an authentic guitar sound. I wrote an article called "Realistic Guitar Emulations with Samplers" and it's right here on this site. Check it out, and feel free to comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members keybdwizrd Posted April 21, 2015 Members Share Posted April 21, 2015 Here's an incomplete "rock demo" I made using only sounds from my Roland Jupiter-50, including electric guitar. These kinds of guitar sounds are available in the newer Roland instruments with the "SuperNatural" sounds, such as the Integra-7 module. Again, I am a keyboardist, and it is really rough to play these sounds with voicings that are consistent with what someone does on a guitar. But I try my best. https://soundcloud.com/michael-walth...mplete-050714a Well, the above link should work, but I can't remove the link from this post (below), that doesn't work. Sorry about that. Don't know why that is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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