Computer software for guitar????

[TheHarleyMan2]

I wasn't sure where to post this.

Does anyone KNOW if there is a computer software, where you can plug your guitar in your computer and have it put musical notes as well as tablature form for everything you would play on the guitar you are playing?

I know there is some computer media stuff out there, but it is mainly adding in musical notations and adding in whatever instruments, etc., that is not what I am looking for.

I looked online and everywhere, but it seems with the technology we have today, that there would be some way to plug your guitar in the computer, (with a program software that reads your guitar note structure), and one could play, and produce there own music.

Does anyone know what I am talking about?

 

[meka]

I don't think so. That's the reason why MIDI guitars exist.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

Yeah, that is what I am thinking, but it seems someone with the know how would design a program for music and a USB plug that plugs into your guitar and the computer.

Something like this would be good for guitarist and the like.

 

[ext1jdh]

Computers are not magic, they only appear magical.

What you propose is much more difficult than it sounds.

 

[River]

I don't see what it would buy you that a video of your playing doesn't.

The market for sheet music of my playing is an absolute zero, because I wouldn't be able to read it anyway.

 

[AngryHatter]

Music Transcription Software - Music Notation Download
Seventh String Software - the home of Transcribe!
Different Types of Music Transcription Software - what are the options?

Band-in-a-box has rudimentary transcription, too.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

I don't see what it would buy you that a video of your playing doesn't.

The market for sheet music of my playing is an absolute zero, because I wouldn't be able to read it anyway.

Well, first of all I don't have a video camera and why would I want to watch myself play when I am wanting it on musical nad tablature form? Just about all the computer media has it were you can make your own tablature and musicical notes, etc. Yeah, that is kind of cool, but I heard some of these softwares, (from some of the tablature stuff on CD I got on e-bay of songs), Now these are OK, but to hear a sorta bell tone for each note hit that is supposed to be a guitar doesn't sound right to begin with and many of them go through it too fast to try and learn it. But i am more interested in putting what I play on the computer with it showing up on paper so to speak.

I tried doing some stuff with media softwares, where you could make your own music, but I am not a computer or music genious either, which makes it more frustrating on my end.

Let's look at my idea and what I am looking for. Let's say I got a software that recognizes guitar notes and can haev it show up not only in tablature, but also in chords, and musical form. (Kind of like Fretlight Guitars) you read the music software of a song played by the program and see it played on the computer, and it shows up on the lighted fretboard on the guitar in your lap where it is supposed to be played. Still the music is on musical form on the computer software as well, right?

Well my things is. If I got some of my own original music, I know how it is played. Playing a few notes, then writing it down on paper, (so you know what notes you are playing in time), then you go back and play more notes and go back to writing more stuff down, then all of a sudden to play a particular couple of notes, then realizing you kind of messed up, but it sounded really good with what you were playing, then you are trying to remember what notes you hit. I am sure some of you have done that before, trying to go back and remember how or what you did adn couldn't get it quite right. I know several times I came up with and played one of my new melodies for a few hours and the beat was good, then come back the next day and forgot what beat I was using to get the chorus I had the day before down. then with the software i am speaking of, you got it up on the computer screen what you just played and you can go back to it easily.

Also, lets say you give what you played and printed out to someone what you came up with. They could get an idea of how it is played because you have it tabbed adn musical noted out. But with just tabs then you got to show them how else it is supposed to be done in your mind which some cases they don't get it write.

Someone with the know how, should be able to come up with a software for guitar, and one plugging their guitar in the computer, play and have what is played show up on the computer in tablature as well as musical note form of what it is you are playing.


That is my idea and what I am looking for.

 

[ext1jdh]

automatic guitar transcription.
Automatic Music Transcription Supporting Different Instruments

and it didn't take a wall of text to get there.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

Music Transcription Software - Music Notation Download
Seventh String Software - the home of Transcribe!
Different Types of Music Transcription Software - what are the options?

Band-in-a-box has rudimentary transcription, too.

I downloaded Music Transcription as well as seventhstring which is free for 30 days. I put in a CD from a guitar book that only has guitar on it just to check it out. All I see when the music is playing is a piano keyboard, and sounds wave lines and a line showing where the song is playing at. I looked to see if there was a button, link, etc, to get a music or tablature page to come up and see if it would show music as well as tablature, and nothing, no where. I am not that literate with midi software, and these 2 doesn't show any way to get music sheets to come up or show what notes are played, etc.

This is just another point I am making about midi software. Now if somenoe sat down and show me how to do it then I might figure it out. Everyone I know that uses computers are in the saem boat as I am.

 

[ext1jdh]

Youtube, dude. There's no free ride. You might actually have to buckle down and experiment

 

[erudog]

For a while there was buzz about a Guitar Hero type program called Guitar Rising. I think it was meant to do what you were asking about, and then some. The program has not progressed as far as I know. Do a search on guitar rising though, and you'll see their promo vid from like 4 years ago.

 

[stinger]

Guitar Pro 6.

I won't transcribe what you play unless you use MIDI, but you can use it to put notes on "paper". Plus it will play it back for you.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

I know many moons ago, Lyrus came out with a software program called G-Vox that Fender endorsed in the early 90's, which also came with a pick-up you placed in front of your bridge on your guitar, and it also had the midi software. It pretty much did what I am inquiring about. But they quit making them in the mid 90's for some reason. Now the G-Vox is strickly midi software that you can't plug your guitar in with the computer and have it come up on tablature on the midi program.

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

bump....keeping it fresh

 

[Texas Joe]

Y'all are going to think Im crazy, but I was thinking about this idea when I was in 7th grade so 1989ish? Anyway computers weren't what they are today and we certainly didn't have the good ole internets. I am assuming you are talking about software that writes as you play?

I could see the software being useful for a variety of reasons. I have played things a certain way in the past but later on when I try to recreate it, its not the same. There are so many ways the pros could use it and even make money from it. Wouldn't it have been nice if they had this to capture some of our heros live performance NOTE for NOTE?

 

[TheHarleyMan2]

"G-vox Guitar 101" had a program out in the early to mid 90's that not only allowed you to plug your guitar into your computer but also shows you what you played on the guitar on the computer but also let you print it out what you played in tab as well as music form, which was cool. It also had a game that you could play that would show notes and chords and helped you compete with teh cartoon characters on the screen that helped to play better, or show you messed up. You could also ad other instruments in with your music in midi files that you played on the guitar.

The software can still be found once in a while on e-bay, but it only runs on windows 95and is not compatible with later windows or XP.

I can't understand if it was a good program why Lyrrus discontinued the software.

 

[180gROC]

I use Finale PrintMusic.

I can set up a microphone that I can sing or play guitar, or about anything else into and it notates what is played. No midi...

It's not a perfect system. Voice works better than guitar but guitar works as well.

 

[android13]

Your concept is certainly not easy to do as it sounds.

Do you:
Go talk to Henry J and ask for a computer software development section at Gibson?

But seriously, you probably won't find your perfect program. Not yet, anyway.

 

[huw]

It's been done, but you need a MIDI pickup.

John McLaughlin put out a DVD called "This Is The Way I Do It" - he used a Godin guitar with a MIDI pickup to transcribe the imporvised solos he played, so that the score could appear on screen as he played.

You hear the guitar normally, from the magnetic pickups, but the computer transcribes from the MIDI pickup.

Jump the video to about the 2 minute mark to see it, it mostly just talking before then.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lqi1vyKBuY[/ame]

A little Googling should turn up what software he used...

 

[djlogan33]

I got a brand new Fretlight FG-421 guitar with one LED light, at the high-E string at the nut, not working, for only $189
They normally sell for $300-$400.

It's an amazing tool to teach/learn new scales.

From their website:"Optek’s innovative approach to musical education is two-pronged.
It’s most recognizable component is its specially designed FretLight guitar.
Throughout the training process, unmistakable visual cues are provided through a series of – wait for it – “fret lights” mounted beneath the guitar’s fingerboard.
These lights react to instructions from the second component of the system.

Its companion software package is a unique set of applications and training exercises designed to teach everything from guitar tuning to music theory."

IMO, it beats the hell out of looking at books, tab-sheets or paying a guitar instructor $50/hour or more guitar lessons.

The Fretlight guitar lesson displays chords or lead riffs on the fretboard at normal speed or can be slowed down to any speed for you to follow.
For me, I can learn new tracks on the Fretlight,
then play the track on MyLesPaul