Electric Guitar MIDI Device

[Acsii]

Hey,
Does anybody know if there is a MIDI device I can plug into my guitar so I can record a MIDI of it into Ableton Live

[natsukashi]

There are MIDI pickups, that I know. And then you need a box to process those signals into MIDI for the computer. But I have no links. It will probably be tedious though and you will have to get an extra MIDI guitar because you can't turn analog signals into MIDI without transposing the notes yourself. So yeah, you can't do it dually like you can with keyboards (and the reason you can do that is because they often feature that in the keyboard, so it was designed for both analog and midi output depending on your need.)

[Acsii]

There are MIDI pickups, that I know. And then you need a box to process those signals into MIDI for the computer. But I have no links. It will probably be tedious though and you will have to get an extra MIDI guitar because you can't turn analog signals into MIDI without transposing the notes yourself. So yeah, you can't do it dually like you can with keyboards (and the reason you can do that is because they often feature that in the keyboard, so it was designed for both analog and midi output depending on your need.)

Would you recommend recording MIDI on guitar or straight recording...

[natsukashi]

MIDI does have a few positive sides, mainly that you can play instruments that are not guitar with the guitar and as such you can make wicked cool noises. But I would actually recommend going for analogue recording of the guitar because it gives you a better feel of how to record, mix instruments and so on. For midi input I'd rather say invest in a keyboard. They ofter offer more choices for modulation of the sound in DAW than a strangely built guitar as well!

You still have a massive influx of FX at your hand, so you can modulate a guitar to make a very wide array of sounds anyway.

[Acsii]

Oh but I have a keyboard... I was just curious about using my guitar as a midi instrument

[Acsii]

I think you would be good using the midi keyboard, and then modifying the midi to better suit guitar-sounds.

Yea I was just wondering because there was a certain sound I was look for that I can only get on my guitar

[Acsii]

I don't think midi guitar would record anything like guitar. You just have to make the midi sound like a guitar once you've recorded it.

It's the style guitar is played that gives the effect

[Acsii]

oh? what kind?

Psychodallec style bending and slides

[Acsii]

On a side note... Seeming we're talking about midi guitars has anyone heard of the MISA Digital Guitar

[Facade]

On a side note... Seeming we're talking about midi guitars has anyone heard of the MISA Digital Guitar

YES
it has all of my want

[Acsii]

On a side note... Seeming we're talking about midi guitars has anyone heard of the MISA Digital Guitar

YES
it has all of my want

Ikr I was gonna get a piano synth until I saw it

[Facade]

On a side note... Seeming we're talking about midi guitars has anyone heard of the MISA Digital Guitar

YES
it has all of my want

Ikr I was gonna get a piano synth until I saw it

i know ima save up for one

[Acsii]

I... use... a real guitar, and then follow it with my synth.

I have a 4 real guitars it's just that I'm not to good at piano...

[Acsii]

wait, what?

The MISA Kitara is a Synth in the shape of a guitar

[Facade]

haha im too lazy to transpose it from guitar to piano if its anything more difficult then chords xD

[Acsii]

Well that was ambiguous.
What do you think is "more difficult" than chords?

I'm gathering melodies

[Overkillius]

He's saying that melodies may be something that is more difficult than chords.

[Overkillius]

I find software to be the biggest problem myself! xD

[Acsii]

LOL.
I own Mixcraft Pro studio 5, which sucks at everything except for recording instruments. It's great at that. So simple.

but really, I just want my DAW to accept the mods that I write a little bit more... fluidly.
It often lags out or fights me on my oscillators...
for example, on the last song I wrote "If equestria burns" had 112 oscillators firing at about 3:00 in.
Url: http://soundcloud.com/kyoga-1/if-equestria-burns
(if you want to... if that would be alright...)

Hmmm you used to be able to get Ableton Live lite for free if you used SoundCloud...

[Acsii]

I have a soundcloud, i'll see into that. I heard that ableton is really good with electronic music...

Tis...it's what I use in conjunction with Audition

[Acsii]

=/ I dont' get ableton!!!
i'm so sad.

http://soundcloud.com/apps/ableton-live
try this

[Acsii]

it. won't. download.
=/
i'll work on it... Lol.
..
..

did you find a good guitar midi device?

Nah... just a USB guitar or the MISA

[Acsii]

aww.. did you find any that you want to get?

Well there's the MISA...

[Acsii]

hmm. how much do those cost anyways?

Um well it depends on the country (shipping) but it's $789 + shipping
here's the site http://www.misadigital.com/kitara.html

[Acsii]

Hooooooooooooooooly crap. XD i can't even pray to afford something like that.

It's a full synth so expect something like that... although that's cheap...
However they are releasing a controller only version for $300 called the Kitara ERA