Steinberg Virtual Guitarist 1 Manual

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Multi-effect board
The fully-featured effect board is an important and integral component 
of Virtual Guitarist “Electric Edition”. Its functionality, sound and design 
is a true reproduction of the floor box collection guitarists use to take 
on stage or to the studio. We’ve put a lot of focus on an authentic look 
and feel in every detail. Note for example that even the LEDs of the 
modulation effects flash in sync—like in the good old times.
Since...

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Effect management
All functions for managing the effects are clearly organized in the 
menu bar at the top of the FX page.
Here you can select and save effects, bypass the FX board and deter-
mine the mode of FX switching by part or player.
Switching effects on or off
The bypass switch in the menu bar completely deactivates the effect 
board.
Effects are bypassed when the button is pushed and the green LED is 
lighted.
Apart from the global bypass, every...

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Selecting effects from the bank
An effect program in Virtual Guitarist always stores the setting for the 
entire board—at the push of a button you can switch and set all effect 
devices at a time.
• To step through the 32 effect programs one-by-one, click the little 
arrow buttons left to the effect menu.
• To open the effect menu for selecting an effect, click the larger metal 
button to the right of the menu.
Renaming effects
To rename an effect...

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Effect handling for parts
Effect setting
In Virtual Guitarist each of the 8 parts has its own effect buffer (set-
ting). These settings are independent from the effect bank and are 
stored with the song. 
When the button Part is active, selecting a part also calls the effect 
setting for this part. Alternately, you can retain the same effect setting 
for the entire player by clicking the Player button.
Switching effect settings within one part
As a bonus...

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Wah pedal
The Wah effect has been named by its sound. It adds a filter move-
ment sounding like a morphing between the vowels U and A.
❐Playing a wah pedal is an art of its own. Therefore Thomas Blug has recorded 
special Wah players with built-in wah effects. Here, the wah is part of the 
signal and doesn’t need the Wah pedal of the effect board.
In non-virtual life, a Wah pedal is inserted between guitar and amp. 
The Wah pedal in Virtual Guitarist...

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Foot Control
To control the wah effect manually, just click-hold on the pedal and 
move the mouse up and down. Of course this movement can be writ-
ten into automation tracks if you wish.
Additionally, you can control the pedal with the modulation wheel. For 
this purpose you just have to not assign the wheel to any of the two 
destinations (Fill, Vibrato) in the setup page—it gets automatically 
routed to the pedal.
Of course you can also control the wah...

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This is how you set the AutoFilter:
1. Play the guitar phrase you want to autofilter. Switch on the AutoFilter 
and set the Freq knob to a medium value.
2. With the knob switch select the direction of the filter movement. In the 
left position (positive) the filter frequency follows the signal level, in 
the right position it moves in the opposite direction (higher level = 
sound gets darker), e.g. for underwater soundscapes.
3. Now turn up the...

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2. Set the delay time with the time knob. When Sync is deactivated, the 
display reads milliseconds.
3. The mix knob determines the balance of dry and effect signal.
4. The feedback knob sets the number of delay repetitions (technically 
this is the amount of the effect signal that gets fed back to the input). 
Very high feedback values can lead to an increasing delay level and 
finally create distortion—this can be wanted, however, for dub or 
psychedelic...

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Phaser
The Phaser is the absolutely typical effect of the 70ties. Apart from 
being used with guitar sounds, it added the characteristic gargling and 
bubbling to keyboard and synthesizer sounds—even drums weren’t 
exempted. No funk, electronic or progressive rock album and no crime 
score of the 70ties would be imaginable without the phaser.
The phaser effect—as the name suggests—is created by adding a phase 
shifted signal to the original....

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Tremolo
Tremolo (also called amplitude vibrato) is commonly used to liven up 
clean or slightly overdriven guitar sounds. It was most popular before 
Chorus became an alternative, and it’s typical for many guitar track 
classics.
Programming the tremolo is pretty straightforward: You can only con-
trol Rate and Intensity. Tip: Play Long Chords rather than rhythmical 
phrases when setting the Tremolo. Unlike hardware tremolo effects 
this one can be...