Peters Violatar, Arpeggione, fretted cello cellotar, bowed guitar viol

Guitarviol  Introductions- This arpeggione, like other instruments I have made, was born from personal need. I enjoy writing songs and recording, and I wanted to get realistic solo string sounds at home. I messed around with violin and cello a little bit, but did not have hours a day to devote to practice. I looked into midi options but most solo string vst's sound like junk, and even the really good ones still sound cheesy unless you spend a lot of time automating. That's pretty time consuming, and even after all that effort you can still tell pretty easily that they aren't real strings.  Even if you set all that aside, from a writing standpoint there is no comparison between plunking out string lines on a keyboard, and actually picking up a bowed instrument. Simply put, I almost always like what I write on the Arpeggione more than what I come up with on vsts. That's why I first started developing this instrument, the first iteration looked and played quite a bit different, but after