Aye man exactly, I agree - while programming synthesised/sampled instruments is magic and a world unto itself, some instruments usually sound best when the performance is played by a human and just recorded in a linear fashion.
Guitar is one of those instruments in my opinion. But I would say that wouldn’t I 
I bet you would! 
Playing a guitar live is much faster and more convenient, there aren’t limitations and the results are superior in comparison to a programmed riff in a guitar VST. Programming a riff in a guitar VST is an awkward mouse clicking orgy, just like using a piano roll. Pretty annoying, but I’m afraid in case of guitar VSTs there’s no other way to do it. IF one’s experienced and skilled, the results in a guitar VST can be pretty impressive, but it’ll take A LOT of time to program that shit either way. And you have to know at least some basics in terms of music theory.
It’s fast and it’s dirty but I like it.
I tested the free Syntronik 2 from IK Multimedia… and my childhood appeared… 
NIce one sidwave
Still no birds, but there are b!rds in this track though. 
and hopefully in a week or two i’ll be adopting two cockatiels from the animal protection service, so there’s hopefully real birds in the next one 
im realizing that its all about having fun. have to make bad music before you can ever hope to make good music… maybe? i wouldnt actually know…
track is dubstep and no vsts were used for this one
Are you sure there even is a difference between “good music” and “bad music”? Maybe finding the right ears to perceive the music is the hard part all along. Sounds awesome to me, though!
Maybe finding the right ears to perceive the music is the hard part all along
That’s true. I’m pretty sure whoever played this in an emergency room would be fired, but I can play it here, myself.
Sounds awesome to me, though!
I appreciate it
The thing that sucks about the really good libraries is that they kind of require an 88-key in order to play to the extent that anybody would naturally want to, so that you can change from tremolo picking to pinch harmonics, palm mutes, alternate picking, etc. You could technically do all of this with the old QWERTY + mouse combo, but I think it would take some kind of genius to pull it off like that, especially without the knowledge of how playing guitar actually works in the real world – do that part wrong (just like with drums) and people start asking questions.
So much work, though. DI’ing a $99 guitar is cheaper than all of the shit you need to rock out on a VST
Yeah this is great, imo 
Thank you! The Japanese idea of Wabi-Sabi allows me to call very “incomplete” music finished as long I as enjoy what it sounds like and no longer want to work on it. This is a good way of learning, maybe
yeah absolutely. life itself is wabi sabi
a mentor, who is a composer by training and trade, always says that you can tell when a piece is finished because it stops getting better when you work on it
I’ve definitely worked on WIPs until they become worse than the version they were a week ago. never again!
Neck snappingly head nod worthy. Really good.
Provided they know how to play, and that’s the minority of listeners. But anyway, playing a guitar is intuitive, and creating something in a guitar VST is not. I’m sure creating a small riff in a guitar VST takes much longer than composing an entire song by playing the guitar.
If you’re stuck, just leave it on your drive. Often it’s better to leave it there for a year or a couple of years or a decade or even longer. The result will be something completely different than originally intended, but at least there’s a result that you like. And sometimes it’s fun just to browse through old, unfinished tracks, grab one and finish it with fresh ideas, even if it means one have to rewrite the most of it.
You can’t remix or recook a meal
Sure you can, that’s the reason why there are recipes.
You could also repeat your jams until you know exactly what to do to and when, this way your jam could be turned into a song. Just the same way as DVS NME is creating his songs.
truth!
Ty! Renoise has me making dub slappers quite fast
@TNT
I used to have a habit of working on stuff until the project barely loaded because of CPU. So many projects that I wished I bounced or tightened up idea-wise before they became impossible to work on… old projects are fun to listen to sometimes but I just wish I had released them to not lose or forget about them usually
I put a new little album here…
A cozy and calm little track for better sleep…No!
