Guitar to MIDI converter software

[hotmitts]

Does anyone have experience of this ? What's good , what's best, any free ones ?

Just demoing MIDI GUITAR 2 by Jam origin -

Seems quite good, but the demo cuts out so often it's difficult to tell

Thanks for looking folks, any thoughts appreciated, innit

[kranick]

Logic Pro X?
https://support.apple.com/uk-ua/guide/l ... fd1b83/mac

[Niowiad]

As far as audio to midi specifically for guitars, I found the JamOrigin plugin to be the best.
You still have to experiment with the settings, and probably adjust your playing to avoid double note triggering and noted picked up by unwanted string ringing. It's not easy but it can be done.
I'm personally not aware of any freeware as good and tweakable as the JamOrigin software.

[Yann Seven]

I have tried near everything, but nothing is very accurate. If you record on a computer, you have to edit after recording with Jam Origin with is quite impressive for example. But don’t expect to play sounds in a realistic way.I’ve had the roland GR 09, the GR 33, the VG 99. You can play with internal sounds but don’t expect to play VSTIs with this: too much latency, glitches and lack of responsivness. I’ve had the Yourock Guitar, the fender mustang x box, the Artiphon Instrument and the Ztar. None of these controller are able to respect good control for velocities.
So i decided to make my own with existing material, and see if people are interrested in.
It is horrible but much more accurate than all these previous controllers:

[hotmitts]

Thanks for the replies.

Well that sounds very nice. I guesws as long as you play within the limitations you can get nice results ?

[ShawnMH]

Jam Origin is the best you can get (that I know of) for now.

It scans and opens any VST instrument and effects for use within the program, some work better than others, as VSTs can have a wide range of latencies to add.

I also own a Roland VG-88, GR-1 and GR-33. I prefer the Jam Origin Midi Guitar in most cases.

[SirkusPi]

Wow, although I’ve long been casually looking for something like this, somehow I’d never heard of Midi Guitar 2. I just tried it now (with my electric ukulele rather than guitar), and was very impressed! Not perfect, to be sure, and so not something I’d use in a live setting (if such things still existed ), but for recording in the studio where editing the midi is possible, it was lots of fun! For the current $99 price, I’m probably going to take the plunge. Playing my Orange Tree guitars on my ukulele was awesome!

[Jamesk_95]

If your end goal is to just write parts on guitar and turn them into midi, then most daws can do that. In Logic Pro X it’s as simple as selecting your guitar part and pressing control + shift + D and selecting midi replace. It’ll read the pitch/velocity and length of each note you play and create midi data for it. I write so much more naturally on guitar so I use it to write synth parts this way.

If you’re trying to in real time use your guitar to trigger synths then yeah, to parrot everyone else jam origins was the best I tried. But not perfect. Struggles greatly with tracking triads. And has it’s artifacts no matter what the settings. That’s my experience. Definitely try it yourself

[hotmitts]

Thank you. I work in Reason which only converts monophonic notes....yes I wouldn't expect any process to be perfect at this point, but it's interesting triggering synths with guitar, I guess as long as you aren't perfectionist, and are prepared to be a bit experimental ?

[Jamesk_95]

Anytime! And yeah you nailed it chords are always the problem I’d guess because of how harmonically rich/imperfect a guitar is. Even media companies like Apple struggle to implement it in logic so that tells you something

Give Jam origins a shot they have a free trial! Also, I don’t think it’s really perfectionism. Its like in a video game with motion controls, and the game reads an input incorrect, you feel cheated cause the flub was not caused by you miss playing, but the system not working right. Sort of perfectionism I guess haha but more like a nuisance.

Idk if people have mentioned the electro harmonix pedals here. Like the b9/c9 etc. Check demos of those if you haven’t yet

[SirkusPi]

I agree chords are the main “problem” in Midi Guitar 2, in that the detection is far from flawless, while individual note detection seems pretty spot on. For whatever it’s worth, I find that using a pick for chords works much better than finger strumming (although still not perfect by any stretch), maybe because of the louder, more defined transients.

[bill45]

Jamstix has a new midi guitar

[SirkusPi]

I do wish Jamstix would do a 4 string midi ukulele / bass. They’ve been considering it for years (according to their website), but I guess they’ve never felt the market was there to justify it. That’s why I’m enjoying the Midi Guitar 2 software: because it does work (terrifically for single notes, and decently ok with chords) with (electric) ukulele (and the accompanying Midi Bass works monophonically with bass).

[ElVincente]

I love to use midiguitar2 for jamming with synths , but for recording and editing I prefer to use melodyne.

[hotmitts]

I love to use midiguitar2 for jamming with synths , but for recording and editing I prefer to use melodyne.

Not familiar, does melodyne convert to MIDI, I see it makes audio easy to manipulate