Before you read any further, YES, I know it's nigh impossible with a VST. There is no guitar emulation out there that can capture the sound. I'm most likely buying an actual guitar for 100 or 200 bucks and just playing it.

But I'd love to know your opinions, I already have ample guitar and some kontakt libs, but was wondering if there's any (acoustic) guitar, telecaster, or any electric that gave you shivers sounding genuine for a VST.

 

RealGuitar?
MusicLab - Info

 

SugarBytes - Virtual Guitar (AudioSexPro Tip)

Guitarist is a virtual guitar that's designed to emulate rhythm parts played on an electric guitar. The actual guitar player has been transformed into a step sequencer system with a huge level of customisation when it comes to chords or fingering patterns and a detailed control over authentic nuance and expression.

https://sugar-bytes.de/guitarist

 

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I can't tell if vst is good enough to replicate a complex acoustic instrument like a guitar but I think that physical modelling is the way to go.
Here an old product, still good IMHO.
Ironaxe

 

DSK Music: Dynamic Guitars --> www.dskmusic.com/dsk-dynamic-guitars/

Guitars VST instrument: 3 Guitar types: Acoustic, Nylon & Steel

 

sure lol revitar and virtual guitar are the answer here. He dropped here from another decade, straight in the head. stop your bs bot, ppl have ai today and what not, you just clutter things, do you understand that? and yes 200 bucks will make you laugh at those vst so hard, i did with 100 and there's no coming back to the dreaded vst, just practice and practice to save lost years, what a fool thinking brah I got kontakt guitars, ima got covered (btw, OTS libs for kontakt did the 'most' guitar sound for me) but sure enjoy the list uploaded here, install them, try them and then make another post like this. An amount of time equivalent to get trough first stages of learning guitar.

 

Automatic fretting logic in virtual instruments will never truly do what you envision in your head. Just forget about it.

So it's down to how well you can program guitar MIDI.. and how well you can program guitar MIDI is down to how well you know the real thing.

If you're prepared to put in the effort (and don't underestimate the amount of effort), all of these come with well recorded samples, most cover the basic articulations, most have similar MIDI programmability.

Maybe pre-recorded strums, big pattern and phrase libraries (AAS Strum, Session Guitarist, ...) are a better fit for what you want to do?

 

Edit- I can't read
I like NI Session guitars if they're buried in a mix (if you put them too far up front they just sound too perfect). And I like all the Shreddage 3 guitars but a lot of deep programming is required as xorome said, and reamping as well. The Prominy guitars also work quite well but also require a large amount of deep editing.
RealGuitar and uJam are useless hot garbage, imho.

 

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Ample Stuff is quite good i think.


Take a listen!