Guitar Chords to MIDI Software ???

[arcaxis]

Anyone know of any software that will read guitar chords and convert it to MIDI output in realtime? I've got an older Digitech Vocalist that can interpret keyboard chords, but I'd like to try doing it with guitar. TC Helicon makes a piece of gear that will do it, but I don't really want to shell that much cash for one.

[drstawl]

Either Band in a Box or Jammer will do that.

One can also automate that without the associated rhythmic interpretation in Cakewalk. IOW- place a chord with a specific note value in a manner similar to placing a single note.

[arcaxis]

I had changed my original post to make it clearer what I am trying to do and I think I only made it less clear.

I want to take the signal output of a guitar either acoustic or electric and use some software to interpret the chords and output a MIDI signal in real time. The MIDI will be used to drive the harmonization effect of my old Digitech Vocalist Workstation.

I'm trying to make my old Digitech unit do what the current Digitech Vocalist Live series can do, interpret chords.
http://www.digitech.com/products/Voc...alistLive2.php

I do have Band in a Box and if it will do that, I'm just not aware of it.

[drstawl]

Originally Posted by arcaxis

I had changed my original post to make it clearer what I am trying to do and I think I only made it less clear.

I want to take the signal output of a guitar either acoustic or electric and use some software to interpret the chords and output a MIDI signal in real time. The MIDI will be used to drive the harmonization effect of my old Digitech Vocalist Workstation.

I'm trying to make my old Digitech unit do what the current Digitech Vocalist Live series can do, interpret chords.
http://www.digitech.com/products/Voc...alistLive2.php

I do have Band in a Box and if it will do that, I'm just not aware of it.

The closest I've seen to that that WORKS I saw at NAMM 2008.
It depended on a MIDI-capable guitar; you are talking about interpretations of a microphone signal. I've yet to see that work reliably on even a NOTE absent a completely isolated sine wave from a tone generator. Guitars don't produce that sort of signal.

[wreckd504]

Don't know if its what you're after but to get midi data from my electric guitar I use a Roland GK-3 pickup on my electric guitar

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLGK3

And that connects to a Roland GI-20, which converts the signal from the midi pickup into midi data

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLGI20


It's a bit of work at first to get the sensitivity on each string right, and a few other things, but I find it useful because I know more chord voicings and scales on guitar rather than keyboard.

Pickup was easy to install, but you have it depends on what kind of bridge you have. The give a few different kits with the pickup to allow for this, but I went a bought a cheap cort m200 because the bridge had two poles on either side that just lift off.

[arcaxis]

The link below is for a hardware device TC Helicon makes. I was hoping to find something I could do with my PC and some software.

http://pro-audio.musiciansfriend.com...tar?sku=500539

It does probably the same thing as the Roland GI-20, but using the guitars stock PU's rather than the installed Roland PU.