The "only" time guitar sounds realistic..when it is played "correctly" as a guitarist would voice chords....a keyboardist style play, just doesn't cut it..sure it can sound ok, but will not sound real...including the favorable Yamaha "Concert" guitar...

I understand why certain chord inversions are not possible on the Audya...because they are not possible on the real guitar and guitarist that played the recorded audio tracks...This isn't difficult to understand..

So they left in the capabilities of a midi sorted guitar to fill in for the more "novice" keyboardists trying to produce a real guitar part....Does it sound real? No, not at all to someone that knows what a guitar can and can not play...For the vast majority that it sounds ok, because they don't know better....the midi guitar parts will sound ok to them anyway..

Just listen to sequences (midi), that a guitar part is recorded by a keyboard player, and listen to a midi sequence recorded via a "Midi guitar" and a guitarist....I rest my case...

Audya is on the right track.....If you like your midi guitar strums that do not and can not sound like a real guitar....be happy and play them..

BUT!!!!!!! Don't fault the company that does it right...


I have been fortunate enough to know keyboard players that excelled in voicing guitar on a keyboard...no coincidence that they were also great guitarist...

Me..I am one of the keyboardist that struggle to sound like a guitarist...

But I do recognize the difference...