When a guitar string is plucked, it rings out until it's stopped, or it's plucked again.

On the MIDI track the non-bass strings of the guitar only ring out of a quarter note, and then stop. This makes the guitar sound more like a harpsichord than a guitar. Even using a better sampled instrument won't take care of the problem.

If you extended the duration of the notes so they sustained until that string is plucked again (even if it's another note), it makes the guitar sound a lot more authentic.

Another option would be to insert pedal on/off MIDI events to sustain the strings.

But I've found that editing the note duration only takes a short amount of time, and makes a huge improvement.


-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?