Does anyone have experience using any of the Orange Tree Samples guitar libraries with Dorico?
Wondering how well they can be integrated with a notation-based workflow?
I have some background in guitar and am looking for libraries that can be used to produce the specific rhythms and chord voicings I put in the score.
Bonus points if the direct signal from the library can be routed into different amp sims.
If not, any other suggestions?
Seems that some guitar libraries are really not that flexible and simply allow the user to choose or mix and match from a set of strumming presets.
And the chord voicings seem to be generated by the library based on built in logic.
If you can’t create chord voicings, that’s unfortunate. I don’t own that library but I’m always on the hunt for guitar and bass VSTs.
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My go-to is Ample which allows you to create your own voicing for any chord (or partial), strum patterns, finger picking etc. You can trigger them directly through play(ing|back) techniques or MIDI regions. It’s quite a powerful library.
As for passing the audio through an amp simulator, that is as simple as loading it onto the mixer strip. I do that with guitar rig pro occasionally.
Thanks.
Ideally what I like to have is a guitar library that will produce the correct voicing based on what I put in the score. In other words, if I put a position marker in the score and the specific notes in the chord there’s often only one way to actually play that voicing in that position on a guitar.
I’d want the library to be intelligent enough to know that without my having to go into the instrument to craft and save “custom” voicings for chord after chord.
Also to trigger the right strumming patterns (rhythms and pick direction) based on what’s in the score and not a special “strum engine.”
Ample does this quite nicely with what it calls force capo and force string. I have a set of play(ing|back) techniques that trigger positions (I - XII). If you need complicated voicings where, e.g., an open G needs to ring while voicing a G9, 7th fret, open G 3rd string, you’ll need to engage the strummer/chord engine.
For strumming what’s in the score, you would definitely need to map up/down stroke with the applicable key switches (or however it’s done).