For the first time in 15 years, I am eyeing the feasibility of doing an old-school prog rock album and hopefully actually finish this one. I'm not going the prog metal route of the 90s-on, I aim to do one that is very keyboard/synth heavy and stereotypical of the 70s and 80s (and Motoi Sakuraba's arrange albums from the 90s) purely with samples and FL Studio.

I have everything I need except guitars and that's what I seek help here for. What kind of sample set or loops do you recommend for strumming and chords? Acoustic and lightly distorted electric guitars are what I seek and don't plan on using guitar leads or metal chugs or such.

Thank you!

 

Are you opposed to using Kontakt?

 

I forgot to check this thread.

No, Kontakt is what I largely expected to use.

 

If you don't feature it too heavily in the mix, the Session Guitarist series can be quite good. The acoustics work quite well and you can do some good stuff with the electrics too if you re-amp them.

 

Here's a track I did a few years back for a girl and we decided to make it sound as close to classic Alan Parsons Project as we could for giggles. I think all the guitar is NI except for the lead guitar; we were going to re-track them and just decided heck, they sounded fine, it wasn't really worth the effort

 

Love it, I didn't think anyone would be interested in producing that kind of music anymore. You got the Parsons-sound down to a tee, especially with the keyboards.

 

Thanks!

 

Makes two of us then.

I was thinking for Kontakt libs, some of the Orange Tree guitars might be good. Those are always good, it's just a matter of picking the right one. I don't make progressive rock or use Diva, but I noticed this Diva presets pack recently and remembered it due to this thread. It is from Vicious Antelope so it might be pretty good. https://www.producerloops.com/Download-Vicious-Antelope-Prog-Rock-Bundle.html
or "elsewhere".