Step-entry for the thing is a very trying way to try to go about it, and even after long hours of work cannot duplicate what can be done using a MIDI keyboard controller with Pitchbend Wheel, Expression Pedal and simply Recording the part as MIDI in realtime.

Even then, it is sometimes a good thing to go back and overdub the Pitchbends at differing parts after resetting the Pitchbend parameter, such that instead of full travel = +/- 2 half steps, the typical default, changing that to a different value in order to have longer or shorter slides can help.

As for Hammer-Ons and Pulloffs, the real problem there has more to do with the MIDI synth patch in use, while some are a bit better than others due to having more Velocity layers to choose from, there are likely to still be problems with the Attack of each note in the given Patch, which if a Picked or Plucked guitar example, often don't have any samples without at least a small amplitude pickmark in them.

MIDI "Jazz Guitar" patches may work better for this purpose, especially when followed by guitar effects and/or amp simulation plugins to alter the "original" sound of that patch.

That said, I'm also of the mindset that certain instruments just should not be attempted using MIDI if your target is a finished recording and this particular instrument choice is one of those.

That, or shell out the amount of money it takes to get your hands on the new Yamaha Tyros 5 and record its fantastically realistic modeled sounds as Audio to DAW...


--Mac

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