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I am wondering if anyone has any experience/success with using a product like this http://www.sonuus.com/products_g2m.html to convert their guitar playing to MIDI? Or, is there another device that is better for this? I am looking for a way to get my fingerpicking style saved as MIDI patterns that I can then reuse with sample libraries. Thanks in advance for any ideas or thoughts on this. If I cannot do this easily in MIDI my next step will be to try and create a UserTrack for this purpose! 
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Try MidiGuitar from http://jamorigin.com. Or see if you can find a Yamaha EZAG or EZEG on ebay. Bear in mind that your success will depend on your playing technique regardless of how good the converter is. They tend to pick up everything.
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John^3.... have you experimented with the audio to MIDI feature in RealBand? Or the audio to MIDI feature in Melodyne? One nice thing about audio to MIDI is that you start with clean notes, and you don't tend to get artifacts. If the translation to MIDI isn't perfect, you can usually edit the occasional MIDI note easily. An actual device that you might consider is the YOU ROCK GUITAR Its fairly inexpensive, and is surprisingly robust and free of the usual problems that plague just about every MIDI guitar technology. HERE'S ONE ON EBAY But.. I gotta admit.. the G2M you posted looks very cool! The application of using it with a slide guitar positions you to replicate the sounds of more fluid-sounding instruments, as in the example. Keep us posted about whatever you decide to do! I'm very interested in hearing which route you take and what results you get! No matter which way you go, I'm predicting you are about to embark on a journey of fun!
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John(cubed) - the sonuus guitar to MIDI is a monophonic converter, that is it will only do one note at a time. Thus you can not use chords with it. The jamorigin is polyphonic so you will be able to do chords with it. The problem you will have using a guitar to MIDI converter is latency. It takes time for the converter to find what note(s) the guitar is playing. This is also true with MIDI guitar controllers although the latest ones are better but not yet perfect. Plan on doing a lot of editing arranging the notes to their proper timing. I have discovered the best audio to MIDI converter is Melodyne Editor: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=838226&Q=&is=REG&A=detailsYou would record your guitar to a wav then have Melodyne editor convert it to a MIDI file. Melodyne will work as a VST so you may not have to leave your DAW. I use this method exactly like you want. BobH or myself will finger pick a chord progression and Melodyne converts it to a MIDI track, but you also retain your wav file. Thus you can have you guitar track and converted track playing at the same time if you so desire. I will admit Melodyne Editor is on the expensive side at $350 USD BUT it does work. If you would like send me a PM and I will give you my email. You could send me a MP3 file of you guitar playing and I will convert it to a MIDI file for you, I will not do any editing to the MIDI file so you can hear exactly how it works. I hope this helps. [edit] - I forgot to mention the Melodyne also works on strummed chords and that I rarely have to edit the MIDI track.
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John(cubed) - the sonuus guitar to MIDI is a monophonic converter, that is it will only do one note at a time. Thus you can not use chords with it. The jamorigin is polyphonic so you will be able to do chords with it. The problem you will have using a guitar to MIDI converter is latency. It takes time for the converter to find what note(s) the guitar is playing. This is also true with MIDI guitar controllers although the latest ones are better but not yet perfect. Plan on doing a lot of editing arranging the notes to their proper timing. I have discovered the best audio to MIDI converter is Melodyne Editor: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=838226&Q=&is=REG&A=detailsYou would record your guitar to a wav then have Melodyne editor convert it to a MIDI file. Melodyne will work as a VST so you may not have to leave your DAW. I use this method exactly like you want. BobH or myself will finger pick a chord progression and Melodyne converts it to a MIDI track, but you also retain your wav file. Thus you can have you guitar track and converted track playing at the same time if you so desire. I will admit Melodyne Editor is on the expensive side at $350 USD BUT it does work. If you would like send me a PM and I will give you my email. You could send me a MP3 file of you guitar playing and I will convert it to a MIDI file for you, I will not do any editing to the MIDI file so you can hear exactly how it works. I hope this helps. [edit] - I forgot to mention the Melodyne also works on strummed chords and that I rarely have to edit the MIDI track. Hey Mario - I saw a band last week and the lead player hit a pedal that changed his guitar sound to a piano, single notes and chords - it was very cool. Any idea what he might have used? Regards, Bob
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if it was a pedal, it may have been one the Roland guitar synths. The current version is the GR-55
You can get guitar synths all day long on eBay for pretty good prices (compared to new.. Roland is really proud of their products, if you know what I mean)
I recently bought a GR-55, and it is one of the best gear acquisitions I've ever made. Above and beyond the synth capability is the guitar and effects modelling. It is amazing what they can do to reproduce the sounds of just about any guitar, amp or effects pedal ever made.
For example, if you want the sound of a strat played through a vox amp with gain at 50% and volume on 3, select those attributes, and that's what it will sound like!
Or if you want the sound of a rickenbacker 12 string played through the clean channel of a fender twin, they modelled that too.
The acoustic guitar models are also good.. you can make your electric sound just like a steel string acoustic.. or a nylon string guitar.. you can even create custom instruments by swapping pickup models (single coil, humbucker, lipstick, p-90 whatever)
And you can even program special tunings without having to touch your machine heads at all. They're pricey, but all things considered... Best bang for the buck I've ever seen.
If you go to youtube and search for GR-55 you'll get enough hits to watch for days without seeing the same thing twice.
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I can't say for sure but it was probably this Roland GR-20: http://www.roland.com/products/en/GR-20/
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Wow ($$$$$)! I think I'll just stick with my guitar. 
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Yes there is a lot of money up front to get into guitar synths....I recommend a used Roland GR-20 on FleaBay. Keep looking till you find one close to $200.
I have used their GK-3 pickups extensively, which I think are ugly, but they do work pretty well and also allow you to separate your straight guitar sounds to your pedalboard, all the sounds and effects you would normally use, and keep the synth access separate. 99% of the time you will not want or need effects on top of the synth sounds.
The synth-ready guitars by Godin and Carvin are really nice because you don't see all the extra hardware. But, I don't think there is a way to route your normal signal to your effects. But that may be the case only with the nylon string classical synth ready guitar, if you get the electric maybe you can.
Guitar Synths like the GR-20 are also a cheap way to get into the external module world. There are tons of used ones out there, unlike standalone synth modules. People who buy those tend to keep them forever, whereas a lot of people try the guitar synth and then go "Meh. I want a Keeley Modded Compressor pedal instead".
I saw Al DiMeola in concert recently and he had one of those monophonic converters on the whole time, with a volume pedal to just bring it in on little runs when he wanted to. As you may know he is exceedingly fast on guitar and whatever he was using it kept right up.
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Yes there is a lot of money up front to get into guitar synths....I recommend a used Roland GR-20 on FleaBay. Keep looking till you find one close to $200. I look at it as though for $700 I bought an American Strat, an American Telecaster, a Rickenbacker, a Gibson Les Paul, an electric 12 string, an acoustic 12 string, an acoustic 6 string, a fretless bass, a bevy of other basses, a Sitar, several other makes of guitars that I can't remember, 40 different amplifiers (all major brands with signature sounds), a flanger, a chorus, a reverb pedal, a compressor, an EQ, an echo plex, a looper, a synthesizer with EXCELLENT SOUNDS, thousands of top quality Roland tones and hundreds of patches and more that I just can't recall. Pretty good haul for about the price of a Mexican Strat. I have used their GK-3 pickups extensively, which I think are ugly, but they do work pretty well and also allow you to separate your straight guitar sounds to your pedalboard, all the sounds and effects you would normally use, and keep the synth access separate. 99% of the time you will not want or need effects on top of the synth sounds. Something changed on the GR-55... they left a sonic filter out that used to be included in previous versions... so guitars with built in hexaphonic pickups don't perform as well on the GR-55 as they did on previous guitar synths. But the GK-3 works fine. I have a Godin LGXT, but since buying the GR-55, I put a GK-3 on the Godin! The synth-ready guitars by Godin and Carvin are really nice because you don't see all the extra hardware. But, I don't think there is a way to route your normal signal to your effects. But that may be the case only with the nylon string classical synth ready guitar, if you get the electric maybe you can. The Godin guitars do provide a way to keep the guitar signal separate from the synth (OR combined, or both) Guitar Synths like the GR-20 are also a cheap way to get into the external module world. There are tons of used ones out there, unlike standalone synth modules. People who buy those tend to keep them forever, whereas a lot of people try the guitar synth and then go "Meh. I want a Keeley Modded Compressor pedal instead". LOL! That's totally true! I saw Al DiMeola in concert recently and he had one of those monophonic converters on the whole time, with a volume pedal to just bring it in on little runs when he wanted to. As you may know he is exceedingly fast on guitar and whatever he was using it kept right up. I'd love to know what he was using. The COSM stuff is FAST! NO latency! But even on pro MIDI gear, there is still latency when triggering synth tones or patches. .
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Try MidiGuitar from http://jamorigin.com. Or see if you can find a Yamaha EZAG or EZEG on ebay. Bear in mind that your success will depend on your playing technique regardless of how good the converter is. They tend to pick up everything. Thanks sinbad! I have downloaded their demo and will give it a try!
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John^3.... have you experimented with the audio to MIDI feature in RealBand? Or the audio to MIDI feature in Melodyne? One nice thing about audio to MIDI is that you start with clean notes, and you don't tend to get artifacts. If the translation to MIDI isn't perfect, you can usually edit the occasional MIDI note easily. An actual device that you might consider is the YOU ROCK GUITAR Its fairly inexpensive, and is surprisingly robust and free of the usual problems that plague just about every MIDI guitar technology. HERE'S ONE ON EBAY But.. I gotta admit.. the G2M you posted looks very cool! The application of using it with a slide guitar positions you to replicate the sounds of more fluid-sounding instruments, as in the example. Keep us posted about whatever you decide to do! I'm very interested in hearing which route you take and what results you get! No matter which way you go, I'm predicting you are about to embark on a journey of fun! Thank you Pat! I will definitely try the audio to MIDI feature in RealBand! Maybe I already have what I need!?! Have you used this feature? Does it work pretty well? You mentioned Melodyne...I wonder if the pitch module in my Nectar plugin would work for this? That is something else I guess I should try. That MIDI guitar looks cool too but I'd prefer not to get another instrument right now since I already have a guitar/banjo/fiddle infestation in my house!
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John(cubed) - the sonuus guitar to MIDI is a monophonic converter, that is it will only do one note at a time. Thus you can not use chords with it. The jamorigin is polyphonic so you will be able to do chords with it. The problem you will have using a guitar to MIDI converter is latency. It takes time for the converter to find what note(s) the guitar is playing. This is also true with MIDI guitar controllers although the latest ones are better but not yet perfect. Plan on doing a lot of editing arranging the notes to their proper timing. I have discovered the best audio to MIDI converter is Melodyne Editor: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=838226&Q=&is=REG&A=detailsYou would record your guitar to a wav then have Melodyne editor convert it to a MIDI file. Melodyne will work as a VST so you may not have to leave your DAW. I use this method exactly like you want. BobH or myself will finger pick a chord progression and Melodyne converts it to a MIDI track, but you also retain your wav file. Thus you can have you guitar track and converted track playing at the same time if you so desire. I will admit Melodyne Editor is on the expensive side at $350 USD BUT it does work. If you would like send me a PM and I will give you my email. You could send me a MP3 file of you guitar playing and I will convert it to a MIDI file for you, I will not do any editing to the MIDI file so you can hear exactly how it works. I hope this helps. [edit] - I forgot to mention the Melodyne also works on strummed chords and that I rarely have to edit the MIDI track. Thanks Mario! I do like the idea of recording the track and then working with the WAV file.
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I look at it as though for $700 I bought an American Strat, an American Telecaster, a Rickenbacker, a Gibson Les Paul, an electric 12 string, an acoustic 12 string, an acoustic 6 string, a fretless bass, a bevy of other basses, a Sitar, several other makes of guitars that I can't remember, 40 different amplifiers (all major brands with signature sounds), a flanger, a chorus, a reverb pedal, a compressor, an EQ, an echo plex, a looper, a synthesizer with EXCELLENT SOUNDS, thousands of top quality Roland tones and hundreds of patches and more that I just can't recall. Pretty good haul for about the price of a Mexican Strat. WOW! That was quite a haul!
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That reminds me of when the Variax came out....I was sitting in a store just playing with all the sounds for quite some time till my wife came back to get me. When I got up to leave practically everybody in the whole store said something to me on the way out, including the owner! I guess people were really into all the different sounds, as I was. I jokingly asked for a discount? Wayyyy out of my price range at the time.
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I have used their GK-3 pickups extensively, which I think are ugly, but they do work pretty well and also allow you to separate your straight guitar sounds to your pedalboard, all the sounds and effects you would normally use, and keep the synth access separate. 99% of the time you will not want or need effects on top of the synth sounds. Something changed on the GR-55... they left a sonic filter out that used to be included in previous versions... so guitars with built in hexaphonic pickups don't perform as well on the GR-55 as they did on previous guitar synths. But the GK-3 works fine. I have a Godin LGXT, but since buying the GR-55, I put a GK-3 on the Godin! Ahhhhh, the battle rages on. Nothing against Roland, they are a class act all the way. I'm SURE whatever they changed makes the newer product track better! Good to know though, I've been eying the GR-55 for a quite some time.The synth-ready guitars by Godin and Carvin are really nice because you don't see all the extra hardware. But, I don't think there is a way to route your normal signal to your effects. But that may be the case only with the nylon string classical synth ready guitar, if you get the electric maybe you can. The Godin guitars do provide a way to keep the guitar signal separate from the synth (OR combined, or both) Maybe I should try plugging in to the quarter inch jack? LolI saw Al DiMeola in concert recently and he had one of those monophonic converters on the whole time, with a volume pedal to just bring it in on little runs when he wanted to. As you may know he is exceedingly fast on guitar and whatever he was using it kept right up. I'd love to know what he was using. The COSM stuff is FAST! NO latency! But even on pro MIDI gear, there is still latency when triggering synth tones or patches. . [/quote] I have no idea what he was using but I'm sure whatever it was, it was top of the line. There's probably an endorsement deal in the works somewhere
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You mentioned Melodyne...I wonder if the pitch module in my Nectar plugin would work for this? That is something else I guess I should try. I guess it would constitute due diligence to look at that... but Melodyne has several different features... and the pitch correction feature is separate from the audio to midi feature. Whether Nectar includes that too would be something to look at. Regarding whether or not I have used the audio to MIDI converter in RB: I've experimented with it, but never used it in a project. I'm not sure if it's polyphonic.. it might just be able to convert single notes at a time. Depending on which version of Melodyne you get, some are able to convert chords to midi, some aren't
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Our new rock & pop RealTracks bring a powerful mix of requested favorites, fresh genres, and modern chart-inspired styles! We have more of our popular “Producer Layered Acoustic Guitars (15)” featuring Band-in-a-Box favorite Brent Mason. We’ve continued our much-requested disco styles (10), and added new Celtic guitar (5) with a more basic, accessible approach than our previous Drop-D or DADGAD offerings. There are also highly requested yacht rock styles (17), inspired by the smooth, polished soft-rock sound of the late ’70s and early ’80s — laid-back grooves, silky electric pianos, warm textures, elegant harmonic movement, and pristine production aesthetics. Fans of heavier styles will love our new glam metal (13), capturing the flashy, high-energy sound of ’80s arena-ready guitar rock. We also have a set of rootsy modern-folk rock (18), with a warm, organic sound combining contemporary folk textures and driving acoustic strumming. And we’ve added lots of new modern pop styles (16) — the kinds of sounds you’re hearing on the radio today, featuring exciting new drums, synths, and cutting-edge RealTracks arrangements.
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Our new country & Americana RealTracks deliver a rich collection of acoustic, electric, and roots-inspired styles! We have new country pop (9) with legendary guitarist Brent Mason. There is also a potpourri (14) of bouzouki, guitars, banjo, and more, perfect for adding texture and character to contemporary acoustic arrangements. We’ve added funky country guitar (5) with PG favorite Brent Mason, along with classic pedal steel styles (5) featuring steel great Doug Jernigan. There are more country songwriter styles (8) that provide intimate, rootsy foundations for storytelling and modern Americana writing. Finally, we have “background soloing” acoustic guitar (12) with Brent Mason — simpler, but still very tasty acoustic lines designed to sit beautifully behind vocals or act as a subtle standalone solo part.
Check out all the 202 new RealTracks (in sets 468-488)!
And, if you are looking for more, the 2026 49-PAK (for $49) includes an impressive collection of 20 bonus RealTracks, featuring exciting and inspiring additions to add to your RealTracks library. You'll get new country-rhythm guitar styles from PG Music favorites Johnny Hiland and Brent Mason, along with modern-pop grooves that capture today’s radio-ready sound! There are also new indie-folk styles with guitar, bass, 6-string bass used as a high-chording instrument, acoustic guitar, and banjo. Plus, dedicated "cymbal fills" RealDrums provide an added layer that work very well with low-key folky styles with other percussion.
The 2026 49-PAK is loaded with other great new add-ons as well. Learn more about the 2026 49-PAK!
2026 Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
With your version 2026 for Mac Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition or PlusPAK purchase, we'll include a Bonus PAK full of great new Add-ons for FREE! Or upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for only $49 to receive even more NEW Add-ons including 20 additional RealTracks!
These PAKs are loaded with additional add-ons to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box®!
This Free Bonus PAK includes:
- The 2026 RealCombos Booster PAK:
-For Pro customers, this includes 27 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For MegaPAK customers, this includes 25 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For UltraPAK customers, this includes 12 new RealStyles.
- MIDI Styles Set 92: Look Ma! More MIDI 15: Latin Jazz
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 46: Piano & Organ
- Instrumental Studies Set 24: Groovin' Blues Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 19: Songs with Vocals 9
- Playable RealTracks Set 5
- RealDrums Stems Set 9: Cool Brushes
- SynthMaster Sounds Set 1 (with audio demos)
- iOS Android Band-in-a-Box® App
Looking for more great add-ons, then upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49 and you'll get:
- 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums with 20 RealStyle.
- FLAC Files (lossless audio files) for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums
- MIDI Styles Set 93: Look Ma! More MIDI 16: SynthMaster
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 47: More SynthMaster
- Instrumental Studies 25 - Soul Jazz Guitar Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 20: Songs with Vocals 10
- RealDrums Stems Set 10: Groovin' Sticks
- SynthMaster Sounds & Styles Set 2 (sounds & styles with audio demos)
Learn more about the Bonus PAK and 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
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