# Trying to imitate a slide guitar with SampleTank 4

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**Category:** Instruments\
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**Created:** [October 7, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/t/trying-to-imitate-a-slide-guitar-with-sampletank-4/1318 "2026-10-07T11:41:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![igtorque](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.ikmultimedia.com/igtorque/32/652_2.png) [@igtorque](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/u/igtorque)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/t/trying-to-imitate-a-slide-guitar-with-sampletank-4/1318/1 "2026-10-07T11:41:46Z")

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Hi. I’m experimenting with SampleTank 4 Steel String F guitar, and also with Classic Guitar 1 from Miroslav Philarmonik 2. I’m trying to find a way to slide gently between two notes, as if using a slide guitar.

I usually employ Ample Sound’s Ample Guitar M Lite, which has a nice feature called “Legato Slide”, which you can activate “playing” an inaudible note (E0) before the two notes you want to traverse. I’ve found a similarly named macro (Legato) in Steel String F, but it doesn’t seem to work as I expect.

Any suggestions? Is it possible to use these SampleTank / Philarmonik guitars in this way?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![skinnygriftin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@skinnygriftin](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/u/skinnygriftin)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/t/trying-to-imitate-a-slide-guitar-with-sampletank-4/1318/2 "2026-10-07T19:24:32Z")

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do you have an example of what you mean by slide? slide could be many things, it could be pitch shifting, it could be metal against strings on a finger, it could mean sliding one or multiple fingers on strings, etc. maybe an audio example woudl be better to show what you want? heck, if its simple enough i can just record it and send it to you

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**Author:** ![igtorque](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.ikmultimedia.com/igtorque/32/652_2.png) [@igtorque](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/u/igtorque)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ikmultimedia.com/t/trying-to-imitate-a-slide-guitar-with-sampletank-4/1318/3 "2026-10-09T19:16:11Z")

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Hi, skinnygriftin.

Well, as Brian May once said, I want it all and I want it now 🙂

What I can achieve with Ample Sound Guitar M and very little effort is to slide just one finger on one string. I’m happy with that at the moment, but I can’t achieve it with SamplTank 4’s Steel String F Guitar.Guitar.

I’ll upload an example (mp3), if I can figure out how to do that.