Guitar · Source 13

Acoustic guitar.

Written as MIDI. Played as an acoustic guitar.

Write the part in your piano roll and get a guitar back on the track — the pick on the string, notes ringing until the next one on that string stops them.

Play it in the browser or on a track in your DAW · dø1, $12 a month with Pro
§ 01 · Hear it

Hear it.

Listen for the pick. Each note starts with it, and the open strings ring into the notes that follow.

The part is the melody of After You’ve Gone — 34 notes at 138 bpm, the one the chooser on /sources plays on every instrument. This is the acoustic guitar’s render as it came back: nothing played, sampled or edited.

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Take 1 · Acoustic guitar
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The chooser’s melody — 34 notes at 138 bpm — rendered as acoustic guitar. Nothing played, sampled or edited.

§ 02 · In your DAW

MIDI in. Audio out.

Write the part in the piano roll you already use — Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio, REAPER, Cubase and Studio One — with dø1 on the track, or upload a .mid at /tools/sources. Notes, timing and velocity are read as written.

What comes back is a acoustic guitar take: dry, close-mic, 24-bit / 48 kHz, on the track it came from. Usually 20 to 60 seconds. Render again and you get a different take.

Rendering in the browser is free with an account — 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month: 2,000 credits, dø1 (AU and VST3) and Dø Desktop, which installs it.

Get the DAW plugin AU & VST3 · installs with Dø Desktop
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Guitar · Acoustic guitar
In
MIDI — the piano roll on a dø1 track, or a .mid at /tools/sources
Out
A acoustic guitar take · dry, close-mic · 24-bit / 48 kHz
Range
E2–C6
Time
20 to 60 seconds a render
Price
$12 a month with Pro · free in the browser with an account

Why programmed guitar sounds like a piano.

A keyboard-played guitar part has every note at the same attack and every chord struck as a block. A guitarist cannot do either: notes on one string cut each other off, a chord is a strum with time across it, the pick hits some strings harder than others. Here the part is rendered as a guitar plays it — stagger the notes of a chord and it strums; write a single line and it picks.

The body is part of the sound. An acoustic guitar’s box resonates under everything played on it, which is what makes an open chord bloom and a low note boom. That is in the render, from the notes you wrote.

Questions.

Can it strum chords?

Yes. Notes that start a few milliseconds apart render as a strum; a block chord renders as a block. The stagger you write is the strum you hear.

Can I give it a guitar I like?

Yes. Drop up to 30 seconds of an acoustic guitar recording on the TIMBRE well and the part is played in that tone.

Is it free?

Rendering in the browser is free with an account — 120 credits a month, 10 per 30-second render. The plugin is part of Pro, $12 a month.

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