Re: Arranging program?

charles robinson wrote:
"Gerry" <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2009110314070016807-somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 2009-11-03 11:36:58 -0800, "charles robinson" <robinsonchazz@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

First "with the guitar" do you mean explicitly without the use of a
gk2a/synth/midi-out way to address the computer? I don't know of any
approach that would let you play your note and have it appear on a staff
and in time without a gk2a or similar approach.

A good affordable arranging program. I'm not sure what that would be
either. I know you can use Band-in-a-Box, play a midi line into it while
a set of changes goes by and it will harmonize your line to fit the style
you have selected. Among those styles might simply be an alto and
trombone harmonized in sixths, or it might be a five-horn "Supersax"
harmonization, or four trombones, or "Singers Unlimited" or a
George-Shearing thing.

So then logically you could use that sort of thing, making multiple
passes, then output it to a midi-file which you could then upload to Logic
or Cubase or something and push it around until you were happy? Of course
Logic and Cubase are not inexpensive, but there are similar programs that
are.

Is this the kind of thing you're talking about?
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First "with the guitar" do you mean explicitly without the use of a
gk2a/synth/midi-out way to address the computer? I don't know of any
approach that would let you play your note and have it appear on a staff
and in time without a gk2a or similar approach.
... I was hoping that by now someone had developed a
simple interface that would allow you to play your guitar into an arranging
program without having to use a synth pickup.
I don't think they have come up with that yet. There are systems that allow you to plug in and have the output go, via usb, directly into your computer. But I think it is just producing a handy audio-ini. It would take another chip, or a significant program to figure out what pitch and duration each note was and then talk (quite likely in midi) to a notation program.

My interest is not so much in
having automated harmonization but rather having parts played in concert
transposed to the keys of the various instruments involved in order to save
time. Having the ability to hear the entire arrangement played back upon
completetion is also of interest.
To my knowledge (I'm eager to hear of any newer approaches) there is only gk2a which when connected to a GR30, GR33 or the current reduced-feature GR20 will output midi which can be fed to your computer you can then use it with whatever program you like. I am using Logic with a Mac. I play the note, it appears on the screen. When I'm done, I can transpose it to another key, say for a Bb instrument, and so forth.
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Dogmatism kills jazz. Iconoclasm kills rock. Rock dulls scissors.


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I'm definitely not going to buy a synth just to make arranging a bit easier so I guess I'll just have to wait until something better appears.
Charlie

These days the synths are in the form of software that's built-in to the computer program as plugins.

There are apps out there that can take a monophonic audio recording (i.e. 1-note at at ime, no chords, etc.) and turn it into MIDI data.
But usually the output of this type of algorithm leaves much to be desired.
If you really want to generate notation from the guitar you'll need a guitar-to-MIDI converter like the Axon or the Roland systems.
You'll also need to install a hexaphonic pickup to one of your guitars.
You'll also probably need a MIDI interface to get the signal out of the MIDI converter into the computer, unless your MIDI converter has USB output - like the Axon AX-50.

But you won't need any hardware synths, assuming that your comoputer is powerful enough to run some software synths.

This computer notation thing is something you'll have to spend considerable time learning anyway. Add a guitar-to-MIDI converter into it and it's a big learning curve you need to be aware of.

You might also consider a character recognition program that allows you to scan handwritten scores and convert that into data that programs like Sibelius and Finale can understand. I can't remember the names of any such programs, but they're out there and I think they might work better than the monophonic pitch-to-MIDI stuff.

Also, most notation programs are not geared towards arranging specifically. They're geared towards notation in a more generally way, with arranging being a subset.

Good luck.


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