Easy Guitar to Synth [REAPER]

[Sloan]

Guitar
ReaTune (check Send MIDI events when pitch changes)

1. Disable sending to parent track (master)
2. Send that to another track with midi controlled VSTi
3. Make sure to just send MIDI, not audio
4. Party hard

It will be monophonic only and kinda buggy, I just tried this on my lunch break and thought it was hilarious, but great for controlling synths for when you don't want to use a keyboard. Haven't had time to tweak settings and see if it can be more accurate. I was amazed at the latency, it's pretty good.

 

[Igor Samurovic]

Woah, this is amazing! Why didn't I know of this earlier?

 

[Igor Samurovic]

No need for a midi pickup! However, that's why it's monophonic, if it required a mini pickup it'd obviously be polyphonic, but hey, this is some secret treasure I set window size to 50 and used my fretless with trillian, and put a slap bass preset. Now, THAT was funky, in both meanings

 

[AntonioPetrole]

Dope! I'm making a tutorial right now with the same thing but you can play full chords and it recognizes it flawlessly with this plug I found. Cheers!

 

[Sloan]

Dope! I'm making a tutorial right now with the same thing but you can play full chords and it recognizes it flawlessly with this plug I found. Cheers!

yes! more details!
this was a super quick thing during my lunch break and i thought i would post since i haven't seen anything similar mentioned here before. very handy if you want to just slap some quick synth stuff on, or any midi controlled deal.

 

[DanLights]

this sounds like it would be really fun, and actually quite useful for a project I have in mind, thanks dude!

 

[bryan_kilco]

Just tried this with ReaSynth and sort of got it to work. Or must I purchase some synth plugin?

 

[Terminus]

/\ Any synth that's in vsti format will work. Thanks for the tip btw.

 

[StoneLord]

Guys guys, try this:

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

It works surprisingly well.

 

[RedDog]

Now you can really use your guitar as a ghetto bass. Just get Zombass.

 

[Sloan]

Now you can really use your guitar as a ghetto bass. Just get Zombass.

GREAT idea!

I'm gonna check out that MIDI GUITAR thing right now...

 

[RedDog]

Guys guys, try this:

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

It works surprisingly well.

WICKED +1

 

[otamatone]

haha it's awesome, thanks for the tip !

 

[Igor Samurovic]

This is one of the things you might never actually need, but it is so 'cool' you'll have to whack it into something

 

[StoneLord]

The midi-guitar vst is good enough to use in place of a keyboard for us guitar playing but piano challenged types. Tracking aint perfect, but good for pads and non-shred melodies. You have to play clean though.

Edit: Did you try it out Sloan?

 

[Sloan]

I tried the trial real quick but it didn't seem to work right...might mess with it more later....

 

[Chainsaw Calligraphy]

Now you can really use your guitar as a ghetto bass. Just get Zombass.

My first thought too, but it seems like reatune has difficulty picking up on rhythm when there isn't a note change. Should be fine for simple bass lines though.

 

[Igor Samurovic]

My first thought too, but it seems like reatune has difficulty picking up on rhythm when there isn't a note change. Should be fine for simple bass lines though.

To get over this, put a gate on it that cuts a lot of stuff out, and use an expander on the signal, it will make the attack more prominent.

 

[abaga129]

This is awesome! I can see this being a huge game changer for me. There's nothing I gate more than drawing in complex midi parts

 

[abaga129]

Dont really want to pay $99 just for that midi guitar program though :/ Might see if i can do this with melodyne.