作为史上最伟大的运动员之一，这位斯特拉托是世界闻名的。这是一把用途广泛的吉他，曾用于摇滚、乡村、流行和爵士等音乐流派。如果你没有这把吉他（99.9%的人都没有），那么VST采样器就无法模拟你弹奏真正的吉他。东西方当然试图让你在禁区内尽可能靠近。虽然这不是我最喜欢的东西方吉他，但如果我在训练中需要一把吉他，我肯定会使用它。
Strat 56库包含许多很棒的补丁，其中一些可以在另一个名为Goliath的产品中找到。老实说，如果你有歌利亚，你就有东西方第56层。Goliath包含所有最常用的补丁，但不包括其中的按键开关补丁。您还可以使用Goliath获得大量额外的补丁，这些补丁都非常棒。
该库包括许多不同的变体以及按键开关，使用可用的变体，您可以在弹奏按键时听起来非常接近真正的吉他手。按键开关补丁非常适合保存在一个乐器中，从声音到声音的按键切换可以获得很多即时变化。
一旦你找到了你的midi节奏，你就可以探索East West Play软件所提供的可能性。这需要一个声音，并将其转化为数千种可能性。Play具有多种功能，其中许多功能只有在您打开混音器部分的FX窗口时才会显现出来。在Strat 56的Play乐器上，您会发现一个用于塑造声音的包络，一个高通和低通滤波器，用于去除不需要的频率，如隆隆声、立体声扩展，实际上与这款Strat 56采样器、EP-1延迟、放大器和混响器配合得非常好。我个人建议避免使用前面板内置的混响和放大器，切换到FX部分的混响和放大模拟器。原因是它们听起来完全一样，但你可以更好地控制FX部分的参数。
使用内置放大器模拟器这样的处理，您可以模拟运行各种不同放大器的strat。就我个人而言，我不太喜欢strat在这些放大器中的声音，但它们有自己的用途，如果你愿意，可以使用。另一种选择是通过内置的Omnicide失真插件运行strat。这将声音设计带入了一个非常肮脏但微妙的领域。它可以对地层产生很大的影响。就我个人而言，这不是我在strat上使用的东西，但使用微妙的声音可以获得非常令人愉悦的声音。
内置的SSL通道条和总线压缩器在启动以及所有乐器和声音方面都表现得非常好。内置的SSL通道条可以以各种方式使用。使用通道条压缩器驯服你的动态，均衡strat并删除或增加某些频率，甚至使用内置的瞬态设计器在每个样本开始时获得更多的捕捉。我每天都在Audio Animals使用SSL控制台，对这些通道条的工作原理以及它们的声音有很多了解。虽然在我看来，这种硬件模拟并不是市场上最好的模拟，但在Play中使用它来处理你的声音肯定是一个非常好的模拟。
The stratocaster is world renowned as one of the all time greats. It's a very versatile guitar and been used in music genres such as rock, country, pop and jazz to name just a few. If you don't own this guitar which 99.9% of us don't can a sampler VST emulate you playing a real guitar. Well East West have certainly attempted to give you the ability to get as close as is physically possible in the box. Whilst this is not my favourite guitar East West have to offer it's certainly a sound bank I will use if I need a strat in the session.
The Strat 56 library contains a lot of great patches some of which can be found in another product called Goliath. In all honesty if you have Goliath you have the East West strat 56. Goliath contains all the best most used patches minus the key switch patches within it. You get a ton of extra patches with Goliath too which are all pretty awesome.
The library includes a lot of different variations as well as key switches and using the variations available you can get incredibly close to sounding like a real guitarists whilst playing keys. The key switch patches are great for keeping in one instrument and key switching from sound to sound obtaining a lot of instant variation.
Once you find your groove in midi, you can explore the possibilities the East West Play software has to offer. This takes a single sound and turns it into thousands of possibilities. Play has a multitude of function, many of whist only become apparent when you open the FX window in the mixer section. On the face of the Play instrument for Strat 56 you will find an envelope used for shaping your sounds, a filter both high pass and low pass used for removing unwanted frequencies such as rumble, stereo spread which actually works incredible well with this strat 56 sampler, an EP-1 delay and amp and reverb. I would personally recommend avoiding the reverb and amp that is built into the front panel and switching to the reverb and amp simulator in the FX section. Reason being is they are exactly the same in the way they sound but you gain more control over the parameters in the FX section.
Using such processing as the built in amp simulator you can emulate the strat running various different amps. personally I'm not too keen on how the strat sounds through these amps but they have their uses and are there to use if you so wish. Another option is to run the strat through the built in Omnicide distortion plugin. Which take sound design to a very dirty and yet subtle realm. It can be used to great effect on the strat. Personally it's not something i would use on a strat but used subtle you can achieve a very pleasing sound.
The built in SSL channel strip and bus compressor as always work incredibly well with the start and all instruments and sounds for that matter. The built in SSL channel strip can be used in all manner of ways. Tame your dynamics using the channel strips compressor, EQ the strat and remove or increase certain frequencies, even use the built in transient designer to obtain more snap at the beginning of each sample. I use an SSL console at Audio Animals day in day out and have a lot of knowledge on how these channel strips work and how they should sound. Whilst this emulation of the hardware isn't in my eyes the best emulation on the market it's certainly a very good emulation to have and use within Play to process your sound. |
