And as Wizoo was working on this, they operated offices in Bremen and Köln, Germany to develop a sprawling array of synth and sample-based virtual instruments. They sold a pair of reverbs under the name “WizooVerb,” and offered Latigo and Darbuka, a Latin and Middle Eastern duet of virtual drum instruments that kicked ass. The other eye-opener was that legendary composers like Hans Zimmer used Virtual Guitarist to lay down musical foundations for their tracks (and Hans Zimmer has no trouble hiring whatever session guitarist he likes)!Īs Virtual Guitarist evolved, Peter and his team had developed tons of other synth and sample-based virtual instruments at Wizoo.
Peter found out that half of the users were, in fact, guitarists who relied on it to lay down guitar tracks faster. It wasn’t like there hadn’t been attempts to emulate guitar before.” And with that, Virtual Guitarist 1 was on its way to fantastic success and sustained huge sales.
Peter Gorges remarks, “I believe Virtual Guitarist did two things for the first time… you could lay down a guitar track using a keyboard in real-time, which was fun too, and even more important, it was real enough to be confused with the real thing. Peter Gorges said he knew then that they were on to something good! The showing at Musikmesse was the turning point where the concept was displayed live with jaws dropping as people immediately realized the power of Virtual Guitarist and its role as an in-house virtuoso that could help non-guitarists quickly add versatile guitars to their tracks.
It was a day to remember, as Virtual Guitarist was set in motion, but the date was September 11, 2001.įast-forward to Musikmesse Frankfurt in 2002-Steinberg had already circulated press releases about Virtual Guitarist and the product was panned on the forums. Sven hooked up with a brilliant developer named Paul Kellett, who was developing free VST instruments in his spare time and in short order, the group went to Steinberg to demonstrate what they had accomplished. Peter had developed a virtual drum instrument for Steinberg called VST Drum Sessions and was approached by Sven Bornemark, a bass player from Sweden, who proposed creating a similar product to record and play back guitars (a different challenge as it would not be as readily possible to work with guitar elements as REX files). One of them is UJAM founder Peter Gorges, who ran the company Wizoo (which, by the way, stands for “Wizard of Oscillators”). It was the result of pioneering work done by a small collective of determined and brilliant people, among them some of my favorite former colleagues at Avid. In a market crowded with virtual instrument plugins, Virtual Guitarist was a standout in its 2002 introduction at Musikmesse Frankfurt, and it has kept its edge.
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