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Slayer 2

Let’s be real for a minute. Every guitar solo performed on anything other than an actual guitar will be looked at with industry disdain. Sampled or synthesized emulations won’t really sound like a guitar in the end, and it’s especially unforgivable if played on (gasp) a strap-on MIDI controller (the dreaded “keytar”). Every die-hard head-banging guitarist will find out where the offending poseur lives and pour beer on their head (and not that fancy microbrew stuff that synth geeks drink). I’ve seen it happen.

But what if there was an emulation that wasn’t really an emulation at all, but attempted to deliver something so brutally close to the Real Thing that it was no longer a mere guitar-like novelty?

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