Product Description
Unrivaled Functionality
A guitarist is a virtual guitar that's designed to emulate rhythm parts played on an electric guitar. The actual guitar player has been transformed into a step sequencer system with a huge level of customization when it comes to chords or fingering patterns and detailed control over authentic nuance and expression.
The Sequencers
Detailed Control and Vast Arrangement Options
The Patterns page in the center is actually very easy to use. On 16 steps you can determine if a chord is triggered, which strings are played and if the strum goes up or downward.
Each string can be played individually at any time, guaranteeing gigantic arpeggios, nuanced metal riffs are also easily done. The damp- and dead notes make it funky and lively.
The lower lanes are where you can define the chord sequences. Select a root note, choose one of 12 different chord types, each available in three fingering variations and use the "step-repeat" for longer patterns. You can also create up to 24 user chords (incl. impossible chords) by clicking on the fretboard.
The Human Touch
Busy Fingers
The "Animations" page lets you program extra movements for each of the mechanical "fingers" on the fretboard. A finger can be moved up or down by one, two, or three semitones per step, to enrich chords with harmonic elements.
The "Action Section" offers the means for immediate intervention. Loop parts with a press of a button, including dead- or damp notes, half-tempo works as well.
The Guitars
Four Electric Models with More to Come
Three different guitars are built-in: Fender's Stratocaster and Telecaster are included, along with a Duesenberg Starplayer Special. The Starplayer exists in a "Bright" and "Normal" version.
Each of these beautiful six-strings was recorded with 2,000 samples. Extensive sets of fretted notes and open strings have been sampled, each one repeated several times.
The "round-robin" function can alternate the playback of different samples. In Random mode, a sample is selected at random from the available pool for the note triggered.
Amps and Effects
Form Your Sound
Two effect units with 10 effects altogether provide the colors you are looking for. FX1 specializes in modulation effects, including a very nice Chorus, a throaty Phaser, and "Phase Wah" and "Auto Wah" effects. FX2 does classic delays and reverbs, and a reverse‑buffer delay effect.
Two wonderful sounding amp models are available as well as a direct out mode for your favorite amp-emulator-software.
And there’s the Wah-Wah pedal. This is more sophisticated than the average guitar stomp-box, with an integral, variable‑rate LFO to sweep the effect back and forth (this can be deactivated, and a MIDI controller assigned for manual control). The LFO can be set to retrigger with input signals above a given threshold (another way of producing "auto‑wah" effects), and Max and Min's controls allow you to set the upper and lower boundaries of the effects sweep.
Clever and Detailed Mechanics
The Feature List Keeps on Giving
Here are some more features to improve workflow and provide an authentic setup:
- Global Strum Speed controllable by host automation
- Export MIDI sequences to your DAW - can be useful when used to double on another instrument
- Copy/Paste buttons all over the place for effective composing
- Detune strings by a semitone using the pegs
Sounds & Presets
Authentic and Expressive:
- Presets are sub-divided into four categories: Global, Sound, Pattern, and Chord
- Sound presets store settings such as the guitar type and selected effects. Pattern presets store the strumming and picking patterns, while Chord presets store chord changes
- Selecting a Global preset automatically loads the matching presets in the other three categories. However, you can mix and match the different categories, combining the chord progression from one preset with the picking from another, and the effects settings from still another
- User presets of all four types can be created and saved
Features
- Four electric Guitars with more to come soon
- More than 2,000 Samples for each Sixstring
- Control over Strum, Chords & Song Structures
- Action Section for real-time Control
- Slides, Vibratos or Portamentos
- Warm Amps and Direct-Out
- 10 Effects plus Wahwah Pedal & Talk mode
- Mute or De-tune individual Strings
System Requirements
Mac
- OS X 10.9 or higher Apple Silicon M1 supported (64-bit only)
Formats:
- AAX
- Audio Unit (AU)
- Standalone Application
- VST2
Windows
- Windows 7 or higher (64-bit only)
Formats:
- AAX
- Standalone Application
- VST2
Important note: Ths software is only available in 64-bit format for both Windows and macOS and will not function on 32-bit systems.
View Installation Instructions
Notes:
- Looperator is used as the example
- Pop up windows must be allowed within your browser's 'Settings' for the download link to be triggered
Mac
1. After purchasing your product, visit Sugar Bytes to register your software.
2. Enter the email address that you wish to register the software to, as well as copy and paste/manually enter the serial number provided within your User Account > click ‘Register’.
3. Your software has successfully been registered > download your Apple (Mac) installer.
Note: An email containing your Sugar Bytes login details and temporary password (in the form of a code) will be sent to the inbox of the email that you used to register the software with > this may have landed in the junk/spam folder of your email. After logging into your account, you can select the 'Change Password' option to personalise your secret password.
4. Double-click the .dmg installer file to begin the installation process > click ‘Continue’.
5. Read the Software License Agreement > click ‘Continue’ and then ‘Agree’.
6. Copy and paste/manually enter the 8-digit serial code that exists in your Sugar Bytes account.
7. Select the software format (s) that you wish to install, depending upon the DAW (s) you are using > click ‘Continue’.
8. Review the installation and click ‘Install’.
9. The installation of the software has successfully completed > click ‘Close’.
10. Restart your DAW and locate/open your purchased Sugar Bytes software from the plug-in selection.
Note: You may need to Refresh/Rescan your DAW's Plug-in List if the software fails to appear.
The Software is now Activated and Ready for Use Within Your DAW!
Windows
1. After purchasing your product, visit Sugar Bytes to register your software.
2. Enter the email address that you wish to register the software to, as well as copy and paste/manually enter the serial number provided within your User Account > click ‘Register’.
3. Your software has successfully been registered > download your Windows (PC) installer.
Note: An email containing your Sugar Bytes login details and temporary password (in the form of a code) will be sent to the inbox of the email that you used to register the software with > this may have landed in the junk/spam folder of your email. After logging into your account, you can select the 'Change Password' option to personalize your secret password.
4. Double-click the .zip folder to extract and reveal its contents.
5. Double-click the .exe installer file to begin the installation process > click ‘Next’.
6. Select 'I accept the agreement’ > click ‘Next’.
7. Copy and paste/manually enter the 8-digit serial code that exists in your Sugar Bytes account.
8. Select the format (s) that you wish to install > click ‘Next’.
9. Select the software directories in which to install the software formats (32 and/or 64-Bit) to > click ‘Next’.
10. Select a folder in which to install the software to > click ‘Next’.
11. Review the installation and click ‘Install’.
12. The installation of the software has successfully completed > click ‘Finish’.
13. Restart your DAW and locate/open your purchased Sugar Bytes software from the plug-in selection.
Note: You may need to Refresh/Rescan your DAW's Plug-in List if the software fails to appear.
The Software is now Activated and Ready for Use Within Your DAW!
$119.00
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