Session Guitarist ELECTRICS Explained

Studio wiz Eli Krantzberg delivers a comprehensive set of Session Guitarist ELECTRICS video tutorials! If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the features and functions available in Session Guitarist ELECTRIC VINTAGE and SUNBURST DELUXE, and use them to generate countless guitar ideas and tones for your next production, this is the course to watch! Eli walks you through the basics before getting into the more advanced features and functions, demonstrating throughout with audio examples. These videos are for new Session Guitarist ELECTRIC VINTAGE and SUNBURST DELUXE users.

Videos

• Electric Session Guitarists Overview (04:12) - Take a first look at the overall layout and common elements of the electric guitar instruments covered in this series.

• Playing Patterns (10:28) - Explore the chord voicing generator options, and learn how to use the special key switch notes that trigger slides, knuckle hits, and long chords.

• Playing Melodies (08:29) - Hear the influence of key switches to introduce alternate articulations in the melody version of Session Guitarist, the effects of polyphonic versus monophonic mode on playback of overlapping notes when processed with distortion, the use of vibrato and pitch bend on selected notes, and how hammer on articulations work.

• Advanced Pattern Control (10:50) - Explore the use of the impact slider for dynamics, MIDI CC 111 to start playback from different positions within the pattern, the Inspector Panel for shifting the start and end of patterns to create rhythmic variations, and the use of key switches in the Melody instrument as a means of varying and/or extending patterns.

• Pattern Types, Chords, & Voicings (07:32) - Learn how the three different pattern types interact with incoming MIDI, the voicing generator, and the Auto Chords function.

• Fret Position (03:50) - Explore the influence of fret position on both arpeggiated patterns and the melody instrument, and see how to use MIDI CC 114 to automate position changes during a performance.

• The Browsers (05:45) - See how to get the most out of the Pattern & Song Browsers as the collection of patterns is customized within an existing song.

• Guitar Settings (05:59) - Discover how the controls on the Guitar Settings page are used to adjust the sound of the guitar itself, before the signal is sent to the Amps & FX stage for virtual effects processing.

• Amps & FX (08:49) - Explore how this page is used to add effects processing to the guitars, and the result of placing various effects in the signal flow before the amp processing, between amp and cabinet processing, and post cabinet processing. Also see how to save custom sound presets.

• Playback Parameters, Automation, Snapshots, & More (08:48) - See how top use the playback parameters for subtle variations in performance phrasing and timing, how to automate parameters using MIDI CC messages, and how to save and recall snapshots of the entire state of the instrument.