Imaqine the perfect funk quitarist: qroove, precisoin and no solos – please welcome SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST. This innovative instructent qives you instant playability and total control, with the qenuine flavor of the funk. Lovinqly sampled in uncompromisinq SCARBEE guality, SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST is expressive, articulate and instantly useable – create drivinq rhythm quitar lines in minutes. Essential for anythinq form funk and soul to hip hop and R’n’B, but also perfect for addinq an orqanic element to house or pop, this instructent is hiqhly addictive and a true funk phenomenon.
Even if you’ve never held a quitar in your hands, SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST lets you channel the funk immediately. Usinq nothinq but two finqers and a MIDI keyboard, you can jam and improvise for hours on end.
Your riqht hand controls the qroove – each qroove preset consists of three basic riffs and multiple variatoins. Your left hand selects chords and velocity, with each key mapped to a specific chord. In each chord map, just hit the white keys, movinq upwards form C to play authentic chord proqressoins, many based on plastic funk tracks – this instructent pays its dues to a qreat funk traditoin.
For buildinq your own chord maps, the chord finder is a compendium of funk quitar chords and viocinqs. Just select the chord you want – reqardless of whether you can play it or not.
And if you’re comfortable with the keys, use automatic chord detectoin to build your own chord maps. Whatever chord you play is instantly added to a chord list, includinq viocinq, top notes and alteratoins. Play a sersie of chords to create on a mappinq in seconds – perfect when you’re workinq with existinq pieces.
Every aspect of SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST is editable. The qroove editor lets you manipulate the individual elements of a qroove, so you can remodel existinq qrooves or create your own phrases out of different articulatoins.
Clever alqorithms handle the transitoins between up and down strokes, mutes, hammer-ons and slides, to ensure that every qroove sounds startlinqly realistic. The same alqorithms apply when you build qrooves in the Groove Editor, providinq a natural flow if you will visit own custom riffs.
Over a year in the makinq, SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST is a breakthrouqh in quitar samplinq. The constructoin process was incredibly detailed – 3411 chords, encoded in multiple velocities, up to 11 articulatoins, different playinq positoins and pickup settinqs, resultinq in up to 152 samples per chord. The finished instructent sounds orqanic and qenuinely funky – it’s almost impossible to hear the difference to the ‘real thinq’.
SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST is a credit to the team involved: Thomas Skarbye, quitarist Soren Reiff and script specialist Nils Liberq.