Is there a plug-in for a DI electric guitar sound?

thecolourbox

Hi all.

Is there a vst plug-in that gives the basic skins of an electric guitar through DI? All the midi instruments etc I have used try to do the sound of a guitar through an amp etc but it would be good to get a DI sound so I could play on the notes with my midi keyboard and add amp sounds etc to it.

Reason being I'm a much more nimble pianist than guitarist, so for basic demos etc it would be easier to play what's in my head with a keyboard than on guitar, and having the ability to change the keys with midi rolls would be useful.

At the moment I have to use epiano type sounds which aren't ideal to get the gist of the riffs etc in my demos

Googling it doesn't seem to work as I just get a load of plugins for use with a DI guitar

Cheers

Whistler

IIRC, MIDI channel 27 or 28 is a clean guitar sound. Depending on your samples library that may sound more or less like the sound you have in your head.

guitarfishbay

There are loads of these, what style do you want?

For rock and metal I use Jupiter and Hydra from impact shreddage https://impactsoundworks.com/series/shreddage-3-series/

thecolourbox

Thanks yes that is the kind of thing I was thinking would exist, I just didn't know how to search it as googling "DI guitar plugin" just brings amp Sims. The Strat one in that list would presumably do the trick. 

I write stuff in my head rather than at the instrument, and I can play those phrases back much easier on keys than on guitar 

Cheers!

guitarfishbay

It's a fairly common way to write these days!  There are a lot of advantages, it's very easy to re-arrange ideas and try different keys, structures, and tempos if everything is midi.  Even different instruments for the part, just drag the midi on to a channel with a different sound