Session Guitarist PICKED NYLON Explained

Studio expert Eli Krantzberg presents a comprehensive set of Session Guitarist PICKED NYLON video tutorials! Native Instruments have really outdone themselves with PICKED NYLON, and this video series will teach you everything you need to know about the unparalleled realism and authentic capabilities of this virtual instrument. Eli covers every aspect of the plug-in - sounds, functionality, navigation, and more - so you'll be as intimately familiar with the program as a guitarist is with their guitar by the end. These videos are for new PICKED NYLON users.

Videos

• What is Session Guitarist PICKED NYLON? (02:32) - Learn what PICKED NYLON is all about as you see and hear some of its defining features in action.

• Playing Melodies (09:59) - Discover how key switches and other MIDI CC messages are used to control articulations, fret positioning, vibrato, and pitch bend when playing melodies in the Melody version of the Picked Acoustic instrument.

• Combining Melodies & Patterns (04:07) - Explore how momentary key switches are used to toggle between pattern and melodic playback using a variety of automatically generated guitar voicings.

• Controlling Playback (05:43) - Learn to control how long patterns continue after note release and how to trigger dedicated endings that include a sustained chord, a slide, and a guitar body hand thump.

• Patterns (06:09) - In this video, Eli demonstrates how the three different Picked Nylon pattern types respond to incoming MIDI notes slightly differently.

• Auto Chords (04:27) - Discover the Auto Chords panel, which maps the black notes to trigger chord extensions/suspensions and transposes the chord layout so the root pitch is always mapped to C. In minor keys, the relative major is mapped to C.

• Dynamics & Timing (05:36) - In this video, you'll learn how to continuously control the dynamics of the patterns with the Impact slider. Controlled by the pitch-bend wheel, it will increase or decrease the playing intensity of the guitarist.

• Timing & the Inspector (04:43) - Explore ways to modify the rhythm of patterns in the Inspector by modifying the length, start position, volume, tempo, voicing, and fret position uniquely for each loaded pattern.

• The Browsers (07:48) - Discover ways of searching in both the Song Browser and Pattern Browser using attributes and rhythms to create customized results.

• Adjusting the Sound of the Guitar (08:26) - Hear how the controls on the Guitar Settings page are used to choose between mic configurations and/or picking positions, as well as add fret noise, sympathetic resonances, stereo doubling, and breathing noises.

• The Effects Page (07:00) - Explore some of the tone-shaping and sonic manipulation available with the choice guitar-based effects included on the Effects Page of Picked Nylon.

• Playback Parameters & Saving Sound Presets (04:17) - Learn how to lock playback parameters (so they remain when changing songs) and how to save and load sound presets and snapshots.