Geetar

Physical model plucked strings with pitch compensation.

(123 Votes)
1.1 (Updated 16 years ago)
945.6kB
March 20, 2007
Reaktor 5 or lower

DESCRIPTION

This is a typical waveguide-based physical model of a set of plucked strings. They can emulate a guitar, a clav, a bass, or an electric piano. One thing that sets it apart is a pitch-compensation circuit that keeps the strings in tune when the reflection filter is changed. It is tuned for a 44.1kHz sample rate.

The ensemble includes the SpaceMaster reverb to provide ambience. The too-b overdrive circuit is included courtesy of Robin Davies. The graphic control elements were created by Vera Kinter, URL http://www.artvera-music.com, and are included courtesy of Bernd Keil.

Some features of the instrument are:

1. The timbre, sustain, and volume of the strings can be adjusted at every octave.
2. The strings can hit the frets, facilitating the creation of slap basses and other noisy instruments.
3. The instrument can be tuned to Just Intonation, creating clean major and minor power chords.
4. Some snapshots have key signatures in their names, because they use Just Intonation and should be played in certain keys for the best effect.

COMMENTS  (33)

Jason Perry
1 year ago
Great sound though! Amazing example of what's possible with Reaktor.
Jason Perry
1 year ago
Holy crap. I can't imagine running this 15 years ago!! I'm getting dropouts on an HP ZBook G6 9th Gen i7-9750H 16gb...
Diego deus
1 year ago
A lot of thanks! Thank you!
Matthew Babineaux
3 years ago
It’s STILL amazing after all these years! In case this helps any users, I heard extremely realistic results routing this through the Kodiak morph filter. Geetar alone is awesome in building a guitar but to build specific ones—strats, teles, p bass, dobro, Taylors, Martins—I was able to do this super carefully by getting close in Geetar, then running it through Kodiak, then using Reaper’s Tilt EQ, saturation, parametric EQ, and other filters to get the clean tone just perfectly real. Then any amp sim of choice would work just fine. I’d also recommend routing plectrum attack and decay to an exp pedal, setting your value limits for those parameters, and routing pick “tone” to mod wheel. For acoustic guitars, I’d also EQ two separate, short reverbs and turn them way down—-one that’s just low-mids for a few ms of body resonance after the note ends, and another that’s just for the ultra-highs so the strings sound like they’ve got a stereo image.
Jan Sandahl
5 years ago
I can play for hours with this! So well done. I'm new to Reaktor and I'm blown away by what's available in so many areas. Love this! The awkward tuning that's so typical of guitars. The strings close to mic setting... Thank you Chet. :)
yerry feldstein
6 years ago
Yes, that's the best implementation. Thank you!
Thala Estra
6 years ago
10 years ago. the time seem to be freezed with this. a guitarist... thanks!
Robin Davies
10 years ago
...but runs very sweetly and happily on an i7. :-P A lovely sound, plays beauytifully. If only reaktor ran on guitars, I'd trade in my main axe in a flash. Flattered that too-b made it in there somewhere too. (I wrote that). Thanks for a beautiful instrument.
Eric Sample
12 years ago
I very much enjoy the sense of physical snap in this program-I can Feel hammers hitting-strings plucking-A real pleasure!
Paul Koly
14 years ago
Stunning, malleable sounds; with a magical interface.I have made a quiet deal with God to not smoke any weed while using this Wonder Instrument, as profuse yelps of pure joy may alarm my neighbours and lead to an unwelcome intervention.Seriously,I would like to congratulate you on this brilliance. Thank You! Please keep creating.
Dr. Charles Francis
15 years ago
Brilliant! One of the most beautiful instruments I've ever played!
Robin Barklis
15 years ago
a little dear on the CPU as people have noted (around 60% on my 2.0 Core Duo Mac), but still very nice. Thank you.
Robert Gage-Smith
16 years ago
the first patch takes a tonne of juice from my 2.16 intel mac but it sounds brilliant!! Well done.
jace cavacini
16 years ago
reduced to 6 voices and running on the same machine with my mLan i88x, this is playable and sounds nice, but it still eats too much CPU. At least now i can vote on it :-)
bill bradley
16 years ago
Brilliant
arachnaut
16 years ago
Absolutely gorgeous sound.
Aaron Zimmermann
16 years ago
brings my G4 Powerbook to its knees, but OH GOD, this is one beautiful synth!
vsevolod ulitsky
16 years ago
Hello Chet, No need to respond, I just discovered how to automate...Sorry. Once again, thank you so much for your hard work.
vsevolod ulitsky
16 years ago
Hello Chet, First of all, thank you. What a wonderful piece of work! What would you do to be able to automate your parameters, say in Logic?
Neville Edwards
16 years ago
Sounds fantastic despite the high cpu, never knew Reaktor was capable of such a good physical modelled sound.
Chet Singer
16 years ago
Just the description. The ensemble itself is unchanged.
JPaul Morton
16 years ago
whats been updated?
Red Wierenga
17 years ago
Really great sound. Thanks a lot. Unfortunately, it overloads my P4 2.66 with any more than 2 voices.
JPaul Morton
17 years ago
I didn't think anyone could improve on the sound of the Plucked String ensemble, but you have. When I change the number of voices to 6 it runs at roughly 60% (depending on the snap) on my HP laptop
Paule
17 years ago
CPU using is good on XP4D 2.8 = 75% as VST in Cubase 5 VST on 12 voices. Thanks for stringing.
Stephan Becker
17 years ago
well, running on my 1,8GHz Athlon at 44.1kHz causes processor overloads even if spacemaster is bypassed. at 22.05kHz it's about 70-80%...
Chet Singer
17 years ago
I probably should've uploaded it with 6 notes of polyphony instead of 12. Guitars have only six strings anyway...
Matthew Todman
17 years ago
Very Nice! Very high CPU but runs fine on me 2.1 centrino... 68%
jace cavacini
17 years ago
It overloads without even playing any notes on my laptop (Centrino Duo 2GHz). 44.1, etc. Can't play it except for a few notes and crackling. Too bad as the model seems to be well done.
Chet Singer
17 years ago
Hmm, I didn't expect such CPU issues. I run it on a 1.8GHz Pentium, and it consumes about 70% when running 12-note polyphony.
Ned Bouhalassa
17 years ago
Too bad it's such a cpu hog. I can't even run it at 36Khz on my G5 dual 2Ghz!
Phil Durrant
17 years ago
i agree with Herwig. but i cannot use it at 44100 on my g4 Mac. now getting a Macbook is even more urgent. Chet, your uploads are fantastic!!
herw
17 years ago
wow - bravo etc !!!!!! the very best physical modeling ensemble i ever heard. Very very impressive snaps and realistic sounds - fantastic! voting 12 (if i could). The core structure is absolutely first class. Only one bad thing: i have to bye a new computer ;-) (its a cpu beast) ciao herw
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