Free guitar to MIDI converter

[Eddy Current]

This is so cool, you no longer have to spend tons of money on a guitar synth and dedicated pickup or learn how to play keyboards in order to put keys, strings and other VSTIs in your masterpieces. Use it as a VST by clicking on "Unlimited Test Piano" in the upper right hand corner, insert it into an audio track that you feed from your guitar and create a MIDI track with a VST sampler/synth and tell it to get its MIDI from the previously created guitar track. It is beta but glitches way less than my GR-33 did and that thing was far from free.

http://www.jamorigin.com/midi-guitar/Windows-Mac/index.html


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I think this VST is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I made a horrible video demo-ing it. There's some glitches but I'm not trying to write a hit song here, just showing some of the possibilities. It is way easier to use than the Roland GR-33 and Fender Roland Ready Strat I had plus that stuff was expensive.

Here's three tracks played on my Ibanez; synth bass, synth solo and drums (reminiscent of Helen Wiggin during her tribal phase). One take on everything and it sounds like it. No FX or mastering, just the VST and the VSTIs I controlled with it.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjWLlnMe6go&feature=youtu.be[/video]

[Edgeofdarkness]

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[Eddy Current]

Maybe they were working on their site when you tried it. I just clicked on that link and hit "Download Windows" and "Download Mac" and got the Open/Save box with both. I even hit save on the Windows version and it started downloading.

[Bardagh]

I tried this out and it's a neat idea but good god there is some serious latency going on compared to playing straight from MIDI. As someone with only the most rudimentary of piano/keyboard skills, it's really fun to load a VST and play it with the guitar. I have some VSTs with sampled period instruments like baroque guitar and lute that would be particularly awesome if the kinks were worked out.

Edit: After fooling with it some more, it isn't latency so much as it seems to have trouble picking up notes if you play too fast or sometimes just at random.

[thefyn]

Thanks for the heads up. It will come in handy for sure.

[thefyn]

This thing is THE SHIT. Love it.

[Bardagh]

It shows promise, but needs work before I would actually shell out some dough for it.