Cubasis VST 4.0 – Manual - School of Computing, Engineering and ...

What Easy Guitar has to offerEasy Guitar will provide you with a guitar track to accompany yoursongs. All you have to do is to tell Easy Guitar through your MIDI keyboardin which key to play which chord. The timing, tuning and soundof Easy Guitar will always be accurate. And in contrast to a “real” guitarrecording, you can always edit chords and sound – right up to thefinal mix.How does Easy Guitar work?There are several different ways of playing Easy Guitar:• You can play chords and vary the expression using keyboard velocity, MIDIcontrollers, the sustain pedal, and program change messages.• If you’re not familiar with a keyboard, you can enter chords and other MIDIevents using one of the editors provided by Cubasis VST.• You can use Easy Guitar to dub tracks of existing songs and MIDI files to improvethe way they sound. Many commercial MIDI files include special tracksfor use with chords, although duplicating a typical ‘pad sound’ track (such asstrings) with Easy Guitar will also produce good results.Selecting a playerA player is a guitarist playing in a particular style. This style includesboth the way the guitar is played and how it sounds. You select theplayer from the pop-up menu at the top of the Easy Guitar window.The “acoustic players”When you use Easy Guitar in “Acoustic Guitar” mode, the following“acoustic players” are available:• Ringaracka: standard accompanying guitar, based on 8th notes.• Mellow: modern phrasing, based on 16th notes• Mean Reso: a western riff for blues stylesCUBASIS VSTUsing VST Instruments 16 – 315