Guitar strumming

orion-diaram wrote on 6/1/2018, 10:20 AM

So here's a good question.
How can you make a guitar strum? I've tried having tiny notes follow in sequence, but it's not even close to being a strum.
Raising the speed (tempo) I think would be daft.
Anyone have any ideas please?

Brightest Blessings

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CosmicOutpost wrote on 6/1/2018, 2:10 PM

Have you got concert guitar? Looking at the piano reel of the demo track, it's less about the length of the note but more about the staggering of when the tracks play by fractions of a beat. The upper three notes play in about an eighth of one beat.

orion-diaram wrote on 6/2/2018, 1:00 AM

Ahhhh!! I get it now. Who would've thought the demo track would come in handy?!?!
Taking a real close look at the demo, I noticed the blue bars were slightly out of alignment. I noticed this before, but thought it was just a glitch with the display. Turns out I was wrong.
After trying to move the bars myself, I realised they were "snapping" into place.
Then I unchecked the padlocks (In the red circle) and voila the bars are no longer snapping in to place.
Thus the strum was born.
Something the manual doesn't teach you....

brian-hill wrote on 6/2/2018, 10:21 PM

Good to know! I've been curious about this recently. I'm glad you've saved me the headache. Thanks!

CosmicOutpost wrote on 6/3/2018, 3:45 AM

Happy to help! If anyone find out how to play more than the bottom 11 notes with the Power Guitar Instrument then I'd be very grateful!

johnebaker wrote on 6/3/2018, 4:01 AM

. . . . If anyone find out how to play more than the bottom 11 notes with the Power Guitar Instrument . . . .

How are you playing the instrument ie computer keyboard or external MIDI keyboard/sequencer?

John EB

CosmicOutpost wrote on 6/3/2018, 4:41 AM

Hi

. . . . If anyone find out how to play more than the bottom 11 notes with the Power Guitar Instrument . . . .

How are you playing the instrument ie computer keyboard or external MIDI keyboard/sequencer?

John EB

Hi John - both! I have an MAudio Keystation 32 and transposing the keys up and down just moves the less useful samples. The Electric Bass is similar too.

johnebaker wrote on 6/3/2018, 7:59 AM

On the on-screen computer keyboard I can get 3 octaves on the Electric Bass, I do not have the Power Guitar installed.

In order to get the 3 octaves displayed and play I did have to zoom out on the on screen keyboard.

I cannot test with a MIDI keyboard or sequencer at the moment, however the M-Audio should be able to play all the notes from C1 up I suspect zooming out on the on-screen keyboard may enable this.

HTH

John EB