Are there proven techniques for emulating a strumming guitar when using a keyboard? More particularly: => STRUM DIRECTION: Can the human ear distinguish between a downward strum and an upward strum (i.e., due to the top string in the chord being attacked at a slightly different time than the middle and bottom string, while reversing in order for an upward strum)? And if so, is there an EASY way to apply such attack shifts across a region of MIDI "strums"? => FLUIDITY: When a real acoustic guitar is strummed, there is an apparent fluidity between strums. When a keyboard is used to emulate such strumming, it can come off sounding choppy between strums. Are there any recommended plug in techniques for emulating that "strumming" fluidity when using a keyboard? Thanks in advance for your help. GrantP

Just found your suggested tut, Drew. I was going to suggest a similar tut, but specifically dealing with Universal Audio plug-ins. I found Logic 202: Logic's Plug-Ins: Unplugged very useful. But then in Logic 404: Mixing Electronica, Olav Basoski listed off the plug-ins he used, most of which were UA products (1176LN Limiter, LA2A compressor, Precision Mastering Limiter, Fairchild 670 compressor, Cambridge EQ, Neve 1073 EQ). That got me thinking about getting a UA Xpander and some of those plug-ins, which got me thinking it would be great to see a MacProVideo tut similar to Logic 202 but for UA plug-ins specifically (maybe even done by Mr. Basoski, since he already knows how to use the plug-ins and is obviously a capable instructor?). Anybody else into a UA-focused plug-ins tut?

I'd buy a "Vocals in Logic 8" tutorial too.

I have mixing R&B and the mixing electronica tuts. Both are great. Still, I would buy a mixing rock and pop in logic 8 tutorial as well, especially if instructed by a mixing engineer who mixes those genres (as with the R&B and electronica instructors).