Rhythmically I can make Shreddage II sound as authentic as a mock up can get for that instrument (which means, mostly authentic).through conscientious (more like anal-retentive) programming and manual round robins. But of course it's always a much better idea in this case to just do the mock up and eventually get an actual guitar player yourself to record.

1. Vst Plug-ins Electric Guitar

It's extremely hard to get that edgy lead thing going, bent up and held vibrato notes.I mean, you can get some maniacally great rhythm tones if you work on Guitar Rig and libraries of your choice. The leads are where technology seems to be failing.but you could say that about any expressive solo instrument. I could be wrong.

Electri6ity has been around for a while now, but I think it's still the cat's meow of sampled guitar libraries because of how deeply sampled and deeply controllable it is. Its wealth of articulations will allow you to create stunningly realistic guitar tracks, but the trade-off is that there are a lot of keyswitches and keyswitch combos to learn at both ends of the keyboard, and it's a big library that costs $400. For that reason, it may be a little overwhelming to be a 'go to' library, but if you have the ambition to learn and use it, your guitar tracks will have no competition. Rhythmically I can make Shreddage II sound as authentic as a mock up can get for that instrument (which means, mostly authentic).through conscientious (more like anal-retentive) programming and manual round robins. But of course it's always a much better idea in this case to just do the mock up and eventually get an actual guitar player yourself to record. It's extremely hard to get that edgy lead thing going, bent up and held vibrato notes.I mean, you can get some maniacally great rhythm tones if you work on Guitar Rig and libraries of your choice. The leads are where technology seems to be failing.but you could say that about any expressive solo instrument.

I could be wrong. Another +1 for shreddage. I have the PRS version and was trying it out through BIAS and TH3 the other day.

Had an absolute ball, and was able to achieve somewhat realistic results with very little effort. I also love pretty much everything I have from Amplesound, though results through effects engines can be hit and miss. Their Taylor acoustic is lovely if that's what you're looking for. I've not found a really fantastic strum engine/option yet but then I will fully admit I haven't put the time into mastering what I already have in that department. I have heard demos using the guitar VIs that I have that do sound convincing so it is possible though maybe not easy. Again I would agree with this.

It was so much fun to play on a keyboard and sounded great through amp and effects sims. I don't do metal (well not often), and it still worked very well for me on a more moderate level of distortion/drive/breakup +/- other effects.And a heads up for anyone interested and if you're like me and somehow missed the fact that Line 6 is releasing a soft vst version of their Helix effects and amp sim package called Helix Native. I'm waiting on making a decision on updating my soft Amp/Fx packages until I see what it is like. If it's approaching anything like the hardware version(s) it should be great.Linky Dink. Again I would agree with this.

It was so much fun to play on a keyboard and sounded great through amp and effects sims. I don't do metal (well not often), and it still worked very well for me on a more moderate level of distortion/drive/breakup +/- other effects.And a heads up for anyone interested and if you're like me and somehow missed the fact that Line 6 is releasing a soft vst version of their Helix effects and amp sim package called Helix Native. I'm waiting on making a decision on updating my soft Amp/Fx packages until I see what it is like. If it's approaching anything like the hardware version(s) it should be great.Linky Dink. For strumming, I've recently been using Virtual Guitarist Iron.

Vst Plug-ins Electric Guitar

They have a lot of similar strum types in each preset, but different enough that you can switch between them and it almost sounds like a real guitarist if you time it right and it is easy to use. They do a power chord type of strum. I also find if you run them through something like Guitar Rig, they sound a lot better also.I think if you can get OrangeTree to work, it actually sounds better, but I always have trouble trying to get it to work. The manual is not really helpful and the YouTube videos rush through some things. And there's a tutorial on Groove3 where Eli Krantzburg does a whole song using only MusicLab guitars.

It sounds pretty good.