Originally Posted By: MarioD
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=details

You 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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