It's extremely difficult to get any midi guitar to sound right normally let alone trying to do bends. This is especially true if it is an upfront instrument vs being buried in the mix. Not that it's impossible..... but to do it...
You have to be thinking musically like a guitar player would be thinking. You have to understand all the inherent articulations and noises that are part of the performance. Things such as pick and finger noise, string squeaks, and other noises that a guitar player doesn't really create or notice intentionally but is nonetheless there in the performance. Then, the actual bend itself. The bend is dependent on the thickness gauge of the strings and a few other things. On my electric guitar, I can and often bend more than a complete full step, but on the acoustic, it might not even be a half step bend.

Using some of the newer sampled guitar synths, you can get pretty close to fooling non-guitarists. And someone who is really good with the synth can make guitarists wonder. Especially with the Real Strat and the Real Guitar synth. https://www.musiclab.com/products/realguitar/info.html
Listen to the samples they provide.

To get really good results, one should naturally be fairly familiar and proficient on the keyboard. AND.... have a good understanding of guitar parts from a guitarist's POV.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 07/13/22 07:57 AM.
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