are there any guitar notation programs?

[yoohoo]

where you can plug in your guitar and it records the notes onto staff paper? (not finale guitar), or for that matter, plug in any instrument into your interface besides a midi keyboard and have it notated? Thanks

 

[prestomation]

There are such things as pitch-to-midi convertors, but they aren't practical because you can only do one note at once, no chords or anything.

You can get a pickup and get a midi tracker , which can work great, but aren't for the weak-walleted.

 

[ibanezrocks]

I'd rather just write out the tab and have it show up as standard notation as well. And its free...

Power Tab

 

[Dani Pace]

I've looked long and hard for one, so far I haven't found it. Seems like with all the voice recognition software that someone would come up with a program to write music from a sound source. I guess we just haven't requested it from the right program writer. Let me know if you find one.

 

[treymonfauntre]

yes there is! i own one. its a thing fender made called gvox. its a pickup that screwed onto a fender strat and plugged into your computer. i'm gonna go try to gather up all the pieces and see if it still works and then put it up for sale

 

[IronFlippy]

Get a MIDI guitar. I have one from the 80s, but the tracking sucks because it's so laggy. Basically, it's a built-in audio-to-MIDI converter. Transforms the guitar into a MIDI controller. Then you can just use any MIDI sequencer and boom, instant notation. Of course, MIDI guitars are rare and not too cheap. But it works.

 

[HapiCmpur]

where you can plug in your guitar and it records the notes onto staff paper? (not finale guitar), or for that matter, plug in any instrument into your interface besides a midi keyboard and have it notated? Thanks

You might try posting this question in the Songwriting forum, too, yoohoo. A lot of folks over there use notation software of one kind or another.

You've piqued my curiosity, though, so I have to ask: Why aren't you interested in Finale Guitar?

 

[juststartingout]

I have a Roland synth which puts out midi. That is really the only practical way to do it. You can plug in a Roland Ready Strat which you can get for a few hundered. There are basically 2 parts to doing it. The first is a GK2 pickup which will provide 6 pickups (one for each string) with 6 lines going to the synth. The second part is the synth which does the conversion of the 6 signals to midi.

Overall, it works ok and will get a lot of the work done for you, but it is probably faster, just to write out the tabs and convert it to notes from there. The advantage of having a synth guitar is the best justification to buy one, but just doing note conversion is a plus.