If you're keeping it simple you can use the Mac keyboard to play some parts. Under Windows show musical typing or use command+K. I used it for programming some basic drum parts and fills I needed before using the Drummer software in logic. If you're going to do heavy riffing I do believe you'd need a converter. I have Axe FX and Boss products which track synthy stuff pretty well, but that's single line stuff and they have some kind of synth built into their hardware / software. Aside from that there isn't any way to access any midi stuff from a guitar without a converter as far as I know.
You need to be sending MIDI commands which you can't do on an unmodified guitar. I agree with zeffbeff that your best solution is a cheap midi keyboard. They probably start around $50.00 if you need to do something a bit elaborate. If need be you can build it up a few notes at a time or chord by cord and correct the MIDI data in Logic. It sounds to me like the Jam Origin software is exactly what you're looking for.and it's very, very cool.You simply plug a guitar into your audio interface; the Jam Origin converts the analog signal into MIDI pitch commands, effectively making your guitar a full-blown MIDI controller.no additional hardware needed.
Guitar To Midi Converter Software
It includes some basic built-in sounds, or you can route the MIDI to a software or hardware synth.just like a keyboard controller.It also has a free trial download, so you can put it through its paces using your own guitar and computer audio setup without spending a dime. I strongly recommend checking it out. It sounds to me like the Jam Origin software is exactly what you're looking for.and it's very, very cool.You simply plug a guitar into your audio interface; the Jam Origin converts the analog signal into MIDI pitch commands, effectively making your guitar a full-blown MIDI controller.no additional hardware needed. It includes some basic built-in sounds, or you can route the MIDI to a software or hardware synth.just like a keyboard controller.It also has a free trial download, so you can put it through its paces using your own guitar and computer audio setup without spending a dime. I strongly recommend checking it out.
I'm wondering what would it be the best guitar to midi converter TO PLAY GUITAR SOUNDS in Logic behaviour. I'm mostly a pianist, but I can play a guitar too (not well like keyboards but I can manage it) so I'm not interested to play sounds which I couldn't play with a normal guitar. For that I have my keyboard. I'd like to play guitar samples with a real guitar like a controller, so to convert in Midi world all those guitar play modes like vibrato, bendings, mute notes, hammer actions, ecc. And transfer them to good guitar soundsI already have Musiclab products and other guitar samples and groove, and they work fine, but sometimes I'd like to directly play on the guitar what I want.But I need some help to realize which system would it be better for efficiency and reliablity.Any advice would be appreciatedTnx.
Free Midi Guitar Software
Just get a regular guitar, and use the guitar amps and processing in Logic.Guitar MIDI controllers are basic at best, and cannot do much with the infinite playing techniques of a real guitar. MIDI is a relatively inflexible and simple control mechanism. It would work if you wanted to play keyboard parts from a guitar, but once you start getting 'guitar-ey' it starts sounding bad quite quickly.Probably the only people still doing guitar convertors is Roland, but even they have abandoned MIDI guitars in favour of COSM-modelling from the real strings, rather than converting to MIDI. I have an old Ibanez MIDI guitar and guitar/MIDI brain.
I forget the model numbers and I'm not at the studio. Newer converters are a bit better from what I can find online elsewhere. The tracking is a bit slow, but if you're used to some digital latency it's not too bad. It generates all sorts of MIDI slop ranging from misidentified upper harmonics to outright wrong triggers caused by (for example) the finger nails touching the strings after finger picking, or even a slight bump of an adjacent string etc. It requires very precise playing and muting of unused strings.
I felt like I had gone to guitar heaven when I first got it.' Wow, I can play a MIDI flute solo!' But as my keyboard skills improved, I used it less and less.
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