EDM artists work within the limitations that their tools provide. There's a reason that you hear synthesised/sampled pianos all the time in electronic music, bu

EDM artists work within the limitations that their tools provide. There's a reason that you hear synthesised/sampled pianos all the time in electronic music, but rarely synthesided/sampled guitars: midi sucks at expressing guitars. There are some really great guitar sample packs out there, I particularly love the Impact Soundworks Shreddage series, but just look at how much they had to mangle MIDI to make it feasible, with NINE (9) sections of the keyboard dedicated to mode switches, and chopping up the velocity space into five different articulation modes, and they still can't model unison bends which are a staple of classic rock guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2h9AmL2BhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2h9AmL2BhI edit: actually after double-checking, they do support unison bends, but it's a special CC parameter that you have to turn up to do the technique and then turn back down when you don't want it anymore, pretty hacky. The point is, you can't use MIDI to actually play these instruments like real guitars live, even though these sample packs can produce realistic guitar sounds, you need to do butt-tons of midi programming in ways that MIDI wasn't intended to be used in order to make it sound mostly right to the point where it's probably easier to just learn to play the instrument than put in the extreme effort of meticulously programming all this faff.