Bluezplayer, in general, is correct concerning his assessment of soft/virtual accoustic sounds vs mega voices. Today you can purchase guitar sounds that will exceed the quality and flexibility of the mega voices. The way this is done is as follows:

Ecellent Guitar samples with release samples
Velocity switching
Key switching
Effects, e.g., Amplitude
And so on.....

For example, with key switching you can instantly bring in a new sample. If you wanted to change from pick guitar to finger guitar you would just press a key in the lower left end of your keyboard. Similarly, if you wanted to produce a slide sound you would again just press a lower key assigned to do this. This makes the whole thing very playable - in a studio or as a keyboard player in a band. In addition, many different sounds can be created with velocity switching as well.

If this is not enough you can buy samples which include live guitar picking/chording to insert into your sequences.

So as can be seen you can do everything you wish with soft virtual acoustic instruments. Plus they will sound very good - one guitar may have say 400mb of samples.

All of this is not to say that the keyboard companies do not do a good job with small samples. They do. It just does not measure up to the Big Guys.


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 02-21-2004).]