GUITAR SOUND EMULATION

What a guitar, harp or piano sound have in common is the short duration of their sound once the key or string is played. The way to achieve a sound like this on reaktor is by using a Hold Envelope whose main function is to shorten the sound.

 

The first components added on the left hand side are the time controls which then are controlled by the Hold Envelope. Then multiplying the sound generator and the Hold Envelope together, would make the sound short which is ideal in order to emulate any string sound.

Now, to make it sound more similar to a guitar sound, the  sound of the oscillator (already shortened) goes attached to an amp/mixer which connects with a simple delay and a low pass filter. All these final steps in order to get a more similar sound to a guitar.