Reference Guide Virtual Guitarist IRON

In the following part of this user guide, every feature of Virtual Guitarist IRON will be explained in depth.

Menu Bar

The top bar of the Virtual Guitarist IRON interface lets you load and save presets. It also contains important management functions from checking your trial status to contacting support.

Loading Presets

Preset Browser

A preset in Virtual Guitarist IRON is a complete setting of the entire plug including style selection and all control values. Here’s how you can switch presets:

• Advance to the next preset by clicking one of the arrows left and right of the PRESET name
  
• Click on the name of the current preset in the PRESET menu to open the Preset Browser (see image above).

As you can see, the Preset Browser is a clean, organized list of presets, categorized by simple musical terms.
Virtual Guitarist IRON ships with over 150 Factory Presets. Take your time exploring them, as this is the quickest way of getting an overview of what Virtual Guitarist IRON can do!
If you have freshly installed Virtual Guitarist IRON, there will be only Factory Presets. User Presets will appear once you have saved your first own preset.

Save / Save as ...

You can of course save your own Virtual Guitarist IRON presets. You can name them and assign a category too.

The difference between the Save and Save as ... buttons:

• Save overwrites the preset with the changes you just made.
  
• Save as ... lets you assign a name and a category, so does not replace the
  current preset.
  

Factory Presets can only be saved using Save As ..., they cannot be overwritten.

Moving, renaming and deleting presets

You can rename, move or delete presets directly in your operating system. You will find Virtual Guitarist IRON presets in these folders:

Bell icon - Notifcations 

When you launch Virtual Guitarist IRON, it will automatically check for updates. If an update is available, the bell icon will be illuminated.
Clicking it will open a dialog that lets you choose whether you want to download the update now or later.

We built this mechanism to save you the pain of manually checking for updates
in order to stay current and stay current on the latest improvements of Virtual
Guitarist IRON.

Speech Bubble icon - About Page

The About Page is the place for information about your version and licensing status of Virtual Guitarist IRON. It is also a portal to other services:

Visit Product Site takes you to ujam.com with regularly updated news, videos, tutorials, and other helpful stuff.

• Contact Support lets you report problems and ask questions.
• Read User Manual opens this document.
• Acknowledgments – the people behind Virtual Guitarist IRON.
• License Agreement – legalese stuff for gourmets.
  

Style Bar

In the Style Bar, you choose a STYLE (selection of phrases) and a KEY. It also contains the CHORD display.

Style

A STYLE in Virtual Guitarist IRON is the counterpart to a particular phrasing style that you ask your guitarist to play. Styles are the “rhythmic vocabulary” of Virtual Guitarist IRON, which is why we have included 100 of them.

You can select styles by either clicking the small arrows to skip to the previous/next style, or by clicking the name of the current Style to bring up the full list.

Style List