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Is there anyway for me to plug my guitar in, play, and for it to come out as piano?...
 
You'd have to have a softsynth program and you're guitar would need the capabilities to transmit midi data otherwise I think its impossible but I'm not a guitar player so I don't know for sure
 
Probably not with your existing guitar. jonny mentioned MIDI transmitting and he's right. There are certain pickups for electric guitars (like Roland's GK2A MIDI pickup) that let your guitar transmit notes not as the normal electrical audio signal, but as MIDI data (i.e. "play such-and-such a note at such-and-such a velocity and hold it for such-and-such a length"). Your computer (or any other MIDI synth device) could then take those note instructions and play them back, but through a different instrument sound (piano, organ, synthesizer, etc.). Overall, it's a lot of hassle and doesn't always work that well.
 
i've played a guitar with a midi pickup and it's the wierdest thing to hear trumpet sounds or wierd synth sounds coming out of the guitar. pretty neat though.
 
i was thinking about trying midi guitar a while back. apparently you reall have to adjust they way you play or it sounds really unnatural.
 
Yeah its really hard to get a natural piano sound from a guitar, especially if you are more of a guitarist than a piano player. I personally aint into MIDI guitars, but they are worth getting a shot of to see what they feel like to play the different MIDI instruments.
 
jahme said:
as piano? u need a synth to perform such tasks like that. use reason or something. if u got a mixer connect da guitar to da mixer and try it out in reason. or rewire into reason with sonar or cubase and route the channels.
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Ummm yeah....it takes a whole HELL of a lot more than that. Synths alone can't translate an audio signal into the digital information needed to generate sounds on a different instrument palette. Sure you could use Reason to produce the sound from the MIDI data, but something has to translate what you're playing into MIDI notes. Synths alone can't do that.
 
Last summer I saw Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry, and Jim did alot of cool guitar synth stuff (pretty unusual for a "folk" concert!). He didn't do any piano stuff, but did alot of strings/pads. It sounded really good!
 
You need this:

http://www.graphtech.com/prodghost.htm

this:

http://www.rolandus.com/products/details.asp?catid=6&subcatid=0&prodid=GI-20

and a Soft synth program like Reason. It works quite well, with Reason anyway.

I tried it with a Roland ready strat with Reason, and it was cool. The Graphtech stuff tracks even faster than the Roland Strat would, since it's piezo based, not magnetic based.

It's about a $700 dollar investment though.

Or you could go Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7337491510&category=38082&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7336973502&category=41419&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1

Still not far from $700 though.
 
There are some less expensive MIDI guitar options I have read about, where you just plug your 1/4" cable into a 'MIDI Guitar' box and it will translate the signal into MIDI data, which can be usable with any sound module. (Myself, I prefer actual boxes to softsynths)
 
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