jc_denton_in_the_flesh

Does a pretty good job especially if you want to host parties or if you just want to keep your table tidy.

This was the first full-sized classical guitar that I bought after learning on my 1/4 sized Valencia classical guitar. I purchased it for $60 and suffice to say, you get what you pay for. There's nothing really worth noting about this guitar as it is aimed at the unsuspecting beginner believing that actually-functional alternatives such as the Yamaha C40 to be overpriced or simply thinking spending the additional $65 or so to get a decent cheap classical guitar is unnecessary. Out of the box the guitar was badly intonated, the frets were uneven and the the action by the 11th fret was painfully high. You'd get a functional instrument of course if you'd have it set up but with the cost to have a luthier adjust it you might as well just buy the lower-priced student Yamaha or Epiphone classical guitars. I wish I knew that back then.

To me FL Studio brought the best of both worlds - power and ease! I found FL Studio back in 2009 after coming across a trance remix of Baba Yetu and I've been using it ever since. It seems to be geared more towards electronic music but it is such a workhorse of a program.

It's free and doesn't use a lot of space or memory. Yes, it seriously lacks the richness and the accent pallet of industry standards such as East West but its still works really well as long as you don't use it as the star of your track, save for the piano samples which are still good even when considering all the corners cut. Perfect for those starting out or hobbyists like me!

I used the acoustic guitar library from Orange Tree, which is a fantastic one by the way, and this one is just as good. The samples sound as genuine as can be, which is a rarity for a free guitar library, let alone for a guitar library at all, and while this library's main strength is its strumming pattern programmer (which sounds exceptional and is very easy to use!), there's no telling you that it's only good for that. All in all, there's no going back.