![]() This includes amp and cabinet emulators, compressors, wah pedal, tremolo and, for the bassist, an octaver. The FX tab provides a variety of virtual processing capabilities using what looks like a custom pedal board. This is perfect for when the bass part’s accents aren’t quite matching the kick drum. The editor is laid out like a piano-roll editor. The second tab - Riff in Virtual Guitarist 2 and Groove Match in Virtual Bassist - tailors any Part to your liking. Another two-octave range of your controller is used to play chords in real time so your virtual musicians know which notes to play. This list can be changed to a Part display, where you can choose a specific variation of the Style by clicking or by playing mapped keys on an area of your MIDI controller, referred to as the Remote Range. Styles are selected from a list on the interface’s right side. The Play tab focuses on selecting musical genres and corresponding variations called Styles and Parts. Three primary pages are selected by clicking tabs near the top of the interface. I found the nearly identical interfaces easy to use. Virtual Bassist GUI showing important tone-shaping controls, including dynamics, tone and feel settings. Copy protection is handled by a separately sold dongle, unless you’re using Cubase or Nuendo. Virtual Bassist uses a little less than 600 megabytes of space on your drive, but Virtual Guitarist II will need nearly 7 GB to accommodate its massive amount of variety. They’re Mac- and PC-compatible, and operate as ReWire capable standalone programs or Audio Units/VST/DXi2 plug-ins. The instruments are sold separately, but since their approach and operation are nearly identical, both are reviewed here. MIDI is used merely to let you quickly choose variations and tailor the performances to your liking. Both packages build their functionality not on presequenced MIDI data triggering a sample library, but on real bass and guitar tracks modeled after actual performances. Steinberg’s Virtual Bassist and Virtual Guitarist II plug-ins are useful tools if you’ve got a musical blueprint in your head, want some inspiration to fill in the details, and you’re not the ‘perfect’ guitar or bass player. ![]()
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