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Roland Schmidt

“Don't construct a chord that uses eight notes - it’s unplayable on a guitar!”: How to humanise your virtual acoustic instruments in your DAW projects

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PLUGIN WEEK 2025: One point which is undeniable, is the immense power and ease offered by even the most humble of DAWs. But, as a consequence, we’ve also become accustomed to sidelining the human performance, and nowhere is that more important than with acoustic instrumentation.

The widespread and commonplace use of elements such as quantise and pitch correction, has resulted in some DAW-recorded music sounding a little sterile.

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