Triggers (C4 to C5)

• C4: strum down
• C#4: strum down, muted
• D4: strum up
• D#4: strum up, muted
• E4, F4, G4, A4, B4 and C5 (the white keys): the 6 strings
• F#4: plays the chord shifted by the Chord Slide value
• G#4: stops the chord with a hand mute sample

Chord mode panel

Chord panel: shows the chord you are playing and its octave. The Voicing menu lists every possible voicing of that chord on a guitar, and you can select one for each octave. Click Edit, change the chord, then Apply to override that voicing or Insert to add it to the voicings available for that chord. Export and Load save and recall a chord configuration, including the song builder settings

Chord Mode: Guitar separates the note selection from the triggers: pressing a chord with the left hand only makes the soft sounds a left hand makes on a real guitar, and the right hand triggers the chords or single strings. Piano plays the chord as soon as you press it, with upstrokes and downstrokes chosen automatically from the position in the bar; release and replay any note of the chord to repeat it. It is more intuitive, but allows less detail and realism

Up/Down Trigger: on Manual, C4 strums down and D4 strums up. On Auto, C4 strums up or down depending on the position in the bar

Let Ring: whether the chord stops when you release your right hand - handy for fast or complex chord progressions

Mixed Mode: a mix of the solo and chord modes. Play one note at a time, or two as a legato, and it plays single notes or hammers and slides as set in the solo mode; play three notes or more, or two at once, and it strums the chord as in the piano mode

Accent: how hard you must play to trigger all 6 strings. Min String Amount sets the minimum number of strings played in a strum at the lowest velocity

Strum Speed: the overall time taken to strum all 6 strings

Strum Center: your right hand's position over the strings: at the top (1) you hear more of the first and second strings, at the bottom (6) more of the last two

Clean Play: how clean and precise the playing is: at 6 the engine always uses clean samples, at 1 it mostly uses samples of notes that were not pressed well

Chord Hammers: plays the hammer-ons and pull-offs between one chord and the next - probably what makes the library most realistic

Capo: simulates a real capo. With Transpose off, an E chord with the capo at fret 1 sounds as an F; with it on, the E stays an E and the engine looks for an alternate position starting from the capo - useful to play chords high on the neck

Auto Voicing: uses different chord positions depending on the octave you play in. Turn it off on a small controller, or to always play the first position

Patterns panel

Triggers: assign 13 patterns of your choice to 13 notes, from C4 to C5, or click the keys on the interface. Starting a pattern stops the previous one, releasing the key stops it, and the velocity you play sets the velocity of the whole pattern

Let Ring: whether the "off" events in the pattern are played

Length: the length of the pattern, from 1 to its full length, to fit the time signature of your song (odd numbers too)

Speed: plays the pattern at other speeds, half or double for example

Link: makes Let Ring, Length and Speed global for all patterns, or applies them to the selected pattern only

Average Vel: the centre velocity of the pattern. It starts at the velocity of the trigger and can be modulated from a MIDI controller - the modulation wheel by default

Deviation: the spread between the lowest and highest velocities of the pattern's events, also modulatable in real time

Shuffle: adds groove without quantizing, so the playing stays realistic

Latch: when on, a key starts the pattern and pressing it again stops it

Bar Sync: a pattern only starts at the next bar - useful when working in a sequencer

Pattern Maker

Grid: a step sequencer made for guitar strumming: each fret is a quarter note, and you can add a whole chord or, with the link icon off, a single string. Events on the same step are strummed with the strum engine's settings

Velocity: select an event and drag over it; a velocity of 0 removes it

Arrows: the up and down arrows at the top set the strum direction

String mute: the speaker icon to the left of a string mutes it completely

Mute and Stop: each step's Mute button plays a muted chord, and Stop releases the chord at the end of the step

Strum Speed: the strum speed of the pattern

Shuffle and Humanize: general controls, the same as on the patterns panel

Pages: create as many pattern pages as you want for variations on one key; copy, paste and reset a page or the whole pattern. Import the factory presets and modify them, save and reload your patterns, preview them, and Add to patterns puts them at the bottom of the patterns list

Song builder

Availability: the song builder works in the chord mode and the patterns mode

Set all chords: puts the same chord on all 12 notes

Song presets: predefined songs with their chord progressions; change the root if needed, and Song info shows the progression

Mode presets: most musical modes with their chord progressions, again with a selectable root

Chords: set the type and the root of each chord, so a song can use different chords on the same root note. Keys shown in red after choosing a preset play a "5th": there is no valid chord for that note in the song or scale. You can set any chord by hand, even starting from a preset

Solo mode panel

Legato Mode: what plays when you play legato (press C2, then C#2 before releasing C2): Hammer plays hammer-on and pull-off samples, Slide plays slides up and down, Legato plays regular sustains but still stops the first note, and Off turns legato off

Legato Distance: the interval within which the legato applies

Slide Speed: the speed of the slides, in the Slide legato mode

String Selection: automatic string and fret selection, or the hand constrained to the first position or a position of your choice

Keyswitches

• F0: palm mutes while held (F#5 toggles between palm mutes and regular notes)
• F#0: Slide legato mode
• G0: simple legato mode
• G#0: legato off
• A0: fret noises
• A#0: a right hand hit on the strings
• B0 to D1: percussion sounds
• D#1: harmonics (flageolets) while held

Preferences panel

Release Vol: the volume of the release samples

Fret Noise: the volume of the automatic fret noises, heard when the left hand moves in solo mode and when you change chord in chord mode

Pre Notes Vol: the volume of the soft noises your left hand makes when selecting a chord in the chord mode's Guitar setting

Dynamics: the volume of the lowest velocity

Velocity Curve: how the volume responds to velocity

Midi Sensitivity: a MIDI remapper: how hard you need to press a key to reach a given velocity

Palm Length: how long the palm mutes last

Bridge / Neck: load and mix the two pickups as you like

FX panel

• Distortion, with an amount control
• Chorus, with speed and amount
• Amp simulation, with several cabinets to choose from
• Tape delay and spring reverb

MIDI guitar

Strings MIDI channels: select the MIDI channel of each of the 6 strings. You may need Set patch as omni so the instrument responds on all MIDI channels