New electric and acoustic guitar collection

[alex78]

An interesting new sample collection by nord : https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-lib ... -30/latest
I wonder why they haven't released any really good overdrive guitar sample yet. Ok, it's not common for a keyboardist to play guitar parts, every band has a guitarist for that, but sometimes it's good to have a decent guitar sound for some riffs when the guitarist is soloing!

[PScooter63]

Yep, I'll be making room for almost all of these! I'd previously made do with a lone custom ES335 sampleset; somewhat uneven, but better sounding than all the existing guitar library.

I'm gigging tomorrow night, so I know what I'll be doing for the next few hours...

THANKS, CLAVIA!!

[Sampletekk]

An interesting new sample collection by nord : https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-lib ... -30/latest
I wonder why they haven't released any really good overdrive guitar sample yet. Ok, it's not common for a keyboardist to play guitar parts, every band has a guitarist for that, but sometimes it's good to have a decent guitar sound for some riffs when the guitarist is soloing!

Try the onboard distortion! Sampling guitars with distortion/overdrive is usually not a good idea since the distorted sound should be a result of all the notes, together. If you sample a guitar wit dist, you get a separate distortion per sample, and that's not very natural sounding.

[maxpiano]

An interesting new sample collection by nord : https://www.nordkeyboards.com/sound-lib ... -30/latest
I wonder why they haven't released any really good overdrive guitar sample yet. Ok, it's not common for a keyboardist to play guitar parts, every band has a guitarist for that, but sometimes it's good to have a decent guitar sound for some riffs when the guitarist is soloing!

Try the onboard distortion! Sampling guitars with distortion/overdrive is usually not a good idea since the distorted sound should be a result of all the notes, together. If you sample a guitar wit dist, you get a separate distortion per sample, and that's not very natural sounding.

Makes a lot of sense to me

[alex78]

Try the onboard distortion! Sampling guitars with distortion/overdrive is usually not a good idea since the distorted sound should be a result of all the notes, together. If you sample a guitar wit dist, you get a separate distortion per sample, and that's not very natural sounding.

I agree, that's why no keyboard can emulate perfectly the overdrive guitar sound. I use a Nord wave for this type of sounds and it's tube amp effect sounds very bad in high levels, so when I use it I prefer keeping it very low just to boost up the overall sound a little bit. If I want a full distortion sound I can't achieve it only with the onboard drive effect. However I have found some distorted guitar samples made by other users in this forum that sound pretty good (better than clavia's stuff for my taste), especially with a small amount of reverb, some chorus (1st or 2nd setting), a very subtle tube amp level, comp filter and some eq. For even richer sound I put a distorted organ on the second slot and blend it all together with the guitar distinctively louder than the organ. It sounds just fine!

[cphollis]

Jeez. I play in this acoustic trio, and I remapped about a dozen tunes to the new guitar samples. Did a party gig last night. It was very, very good.

For example, we do "Girl From Ipanema". It sounded like a masterful acoustic guitarist on stage, but it was just me. Such a sweet sound, really. I do stuff that would be hard for 99% of guitarists. More fingers?

We also do "Danny's Song". I did all the finger picking parts, sounded amazing. Plus a few more. Seriously impressive. There's now a bunch of songs within reach (as I'm the only real instrument) like "Can't Find My Way Home".

If you do acoustic material, this is one to check out! Who knew I could be such an amazing comping guitarist?

[zoot-allures]

I have found some distorted guitar samples made by other users in this forum that sound pretty good (better than clavia's stuff for my taste),

Which samples made by other users did you use for your presets? I have Nord Stage 4 and I think you can cover with good samples a lot of ground. The only sound I still can not achieve is nice creamy distortion. I understand that the amp in the Nord Keyboards has his limits. In the Nord Stage it is okay for dirty E Piano Sounds, but you can not achieve convincing High Gain Guitar sounds with it. I am happy if somebody can prove me wrong...