Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
I recently bought that Realitone Fingerpick Guitar for $49 and it is pretty cool. But I am very tempted by the $139 RealGuitar because of the songwriter mode it has. Every time I write I love having a tool to experiment and quickly try out progressions and riffs and strums. I had hoped to use RapidComposer for that but have not yet clicked with it. I like how RealGuitar has a chord wheel built right in (BIAB should have that; so easy to implement!) Yes they got that from EZKeys and Strummed Acoustics got the Beat finder from EZDrummer And I liked how you can copy from an online chordsheet, paste into RG to get the chords then drag them and a pattern onto the song. Yes that makes it easy, and when you drag the chord track out of RealGuitar you will get Chord names in the markers, I asked them to do that (and they did it the next day smile ). It all looks like an easy way to experiment.

Do you know if I will be able to export the complete MIDI rendering of their patterns to my DAW for further editing or using with a different guitar VSTi? Yes you can can set the output to Midi only and write that to another track in Reaper or just set output of RG to midi only and use a Send then load Kontakt into the receive track, you can put a midi transpose (by +12 or -12) plugin before Kontakt to get it in the correct keyboard note range.



So track 1 is RealGuitar BB Chords, Route Button > Sending to Track 3 Kontakt and Track 4 Midi Out

Tracks 2 is Pattern track (set in RealGuitar > Patterns > Chord > "Track") Sends to Track 1

Track 3 is Kontakt receiving from Track 1 (you can add key switches on this track for Kontakt instruments with articulations like bends slides etc.. as you can't use articulation switches in Pattern Mode in RealGuitar))

Track 4 is Midi Out write from Track 1 RealGuitar set to Setup > Output Mode > Midi

I just recorded the midi on Track 4, but there was an easier way to write the output of the item, just got to find it again.


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