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Archtop Jazz guitar
Is there an iOS app with this sound? I know that I can get VIs for my desktop.
Scarlet Jerry
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Garage band guitar is the only one I can think of. Works pretty well for a virtual instrument.
Is there a jazz guitar in GarageBand?
iFretless Guitar has the best hollowbody guitar I know on iOS; I also like the jazz guitar in SoundCanvas. The SampleTank hollowbody is also worth checking out.
Or you can build a kind of Jazz guitar with Geoshred
if you're not a guitar player you can fake it pretty well with a modified FM epiano sound.
Short attack, reduced decay, sustain and release. Velocity/Mod-Wheel to add some grit.
These guitars don't have as much wood resonance/overtones as a typical steel steel string. Frequency response by a clean/low crunch guitar amp sim.
For a guitar player it's hardly convincing, though - but regular listeners don't really notice the difference.
There are also various soundfont versions out there. Jazz Guitar is of course a standard GM patch, so any MIDI player with a GM soundset (such as bs-16i) will have some version of it.
Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I’m still searching for that traditional archtop blues lounge band sound. Something that sounds like the Orange Tree archtop
I tried soundfonts and iFretless, but nothing provides this classic sound. I will try Geoshred and the FM piano idea.
Thanks!
Scarlet Jerry
That is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous, and if I had $179 I'd be all over it. There's definitely nothing even fit to wipe the feet of that in iOS. Wow.
As I can recall, the Jazz Guitar patch in Korg Module Tritonpack is really nice...
I think SampleTank has the closest match. Just after Audiobus was first released, I used it in GarageBand on this track. If I can get it to post. Okay, I can’t! Anyone know how I can attach a file from AudioShare or Mastering?
This should work...https://soundcloud.com/ian-sainsbury/moonacababa
It's not bad if what you want is an EP trying to sound like a jazz guitar, but it's completely unguitarlike. I forgot to mention iFretless is the only one (outside GeoShred) that's MPE-compliant, though it can be a bit fussy and the transition between different samples isn't always terribly smooth.
Another vote for the SampleTank.
There are also some decent soundfonts floating around the web.
Ahhh! Nice track!
@iansainsbury Thanks!. I think that Sampletank sounds the best. I'm guessing that this is the Hollowbody guitar in the Electric Guitar pro pack? I can spring for $2.99.
Scarlet Jerry
As far as memory serves, @scarletjerry , that was the one, yes. I’m sure a decent reverb will help, but it’ll never sound quite like that VST, and it’ll certainly never sound like an ES-150!
righty, right - the reverb in the final part of the track works great, but the clean parts reveal the difference to a real guitar perfectly. The key tracking simple cuts the smoothness a player would apply - a natural matter of facts with keyboards.
There used to be sample sets (back from the Akai days) that compensated this with a bunch of carefully programmed articulation layers, but to 'learn' those was allmost as much effort as learning to play the guitar
nice and mellow song btw
There is an arch top hollow body electric but I think they intended it as a 60s tangy Shadows type rather than your typical jazz sound.
Besides the Orange Tree Archtop (which I have and agree is fantastic), another great Kontakt jazz guitar is the Impact Soundworks Archtop: Hollowbody Electric Guitar. Usually $129, it's on sale (till tomorrow) for $89 here:
https://impactsoundworks.com/product/archtop-hollowbody-electric-guitar/
I bought it last summer and so far have made a couple of tracks with it (note: I don't work in anyway for Impact Soundworks).
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