Guitarist
Sugar Bytes
Guitarist And it allows me too as well... by Trusty
Long time coming I got this thing a while back. This review is a long time coming for a few reasons. When I first saw the announcement and later watched the demo video, I was excited. Really excited. When I got it loaded on my computer and up and running. I was blown away by the sound quality of the samples, the three drive models, the expressiveness of the various guitars and the tweakability going on in the presets. I listened with awe for a few hours going through them. Then, I began to initialize (use the default preset) and decided to go at the thing from scratch. Man, I stunk at it. I was getting frustrated, and I spent two days off and on trying to get this thing to make the awesome guitar riffs in my head so I could rock some tunes. I knew this thing, judging by the presets, could be a big asset to my arsenal (to not have to bother
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with guitar players as much is always a bonus too) if I could only figure it all out. I gave up after a couple of days...mildly upset with it and, really, myself. However, it dawned on me that I am really the problem...Not only do I not play guitar so don't think like a Guitarist, but I was not thinking about the sequencer the way Robert and Rico want the users to think about it. I know they are great, smart guys who have crafted this thing expertly, and that they've always made sense to me and so many Sugar Bytes users in the past, that I needed to start again...because I am the problem. Certainly other people out there were having a blast with Guitarist, and I am being left out. Now, in the interim, before we get into all the gritty about how and why this rocks, I want to start at the end and work my way back to the sequencer.
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June 2011