Vir2 Instruments Apollo Manual - Manual (Page 12)

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WELLS
Consistently throughout music production of all genres, guitar swells are
prevalent. Apollo’s Swells category is a tool created to provide composers
and producers access to a wide variety of guitars, effects, and amps in
order to effectively add guitar swells to their compositions. To maintain
versatility, each sound has a wet and dry option, as well as sampled strums
in both high and low iterations of both major and minor chords.
Additionally, each sound includes chromatically sampled single notes across
the range of the guitar’s fretboard in order for the composer to create their
own voicing or single-note performances.
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MAPPING
Chords
Since there are multiple locations on the guitar to play a specific chord,
Apollo provides both low and high iterations of both major and minor
chords. The keys represent a strummed chord which corresponds with the
key you are triggering on the MIDI keyboard. For example, triggering the E2
key will trigger an E Major chord, triggering the F2 key will trigger an F
Major chord, and so on and so forth. Refer to the image above for mapping
specifics.
Notes
The notes mapping has been chromatically sampled representing the range
of a guitar. Beginning the open E, and progressing chromatically up the
neck of the guitar to a high D#.