MIDI Guitar for GarageBand App Reviews

For casual users, this does pretty well, and seems to be better than most of the older Roland hex systems, and obviously far cheaper. However, if you’re serious about guitar MIDI and its use with a Mac, the Fishman Triple Play, while obviously more expensive, still tracks far better and is faster.

Very disappointed with tracking, like ma boy said The Fishman Triple Play gat Ya!

Version 1.0.3 still crashes when scanning for plugins. According to the developers website, this was supposed to have been fixed with this version.

I immedately got this as well as the VST version. Roland GK3/GR55 for sale. This app is more musical and does not suffer from the glitches of the Roalnd hardware at a tiny fraction of the price. Thanks for this. Looking forward to follow developments.

Once I started using Midi Guitar for Garage Band on my Mac , I put my hardware guitar synth in the closet . Thats where it has stayed ever since . Midi Guitar happens to be extremely versatile on how you can configure it to your playing style and to the guitar that you will be using . The sensitivity can be set to accommodate various makes and models of guitars . I personaly have used various Teles , Strats , Les Pauls and Les Paul types , Semi Hollow 335 type guitars and full body hollow bodied guitars with surprisingly good results . This became possible once I set the sensitivity and had the waveform dialed in to the accomodate the guitar that I was gonna be using .Once set to the guitars sweet spot , Midi Guitar tracked very evenly on all six guitar strings . I like the built in Guitar tuner, Also I have found the Polyphonic tuner that shows the notes of the chord being played to be very useful for precise tuning . As a guitar player have you ever asked yourself this question ? Why should keyboard players have all the cool sounding synths and get to have all the fun ? I have asked myself that question and I honestly thing that Midi Guitar for Garage Band is a giant leap forward for guitar players of all abilitys . Just so we are clear Im not a paid endorser and I dont work for the company …I have been using this app for a while and I have found some very creative things that you can do with this . Did you know that you can use Midi Guitar to help you transcribe the guitar playing of a solo guitar player … I took a Joe Pass song and slowed it down just a little bit , then I ran that into a little mixer into Midi Guitar and played the recording of the tune …I had Midi Guitar set up to play a synth in Garage Band and the cool thing was Midi Guitar grabed most of the playing on the tune . Now it wasnt 100% perfect , but it more than 60 to 70 % …some of the polyphonic chords were happeing a little to fast for Midi Guitar .I was then able to open up staff View in GB and read along …Then I opened up the GB tune in Logic and I was able to save it as a Midi File after I did some edits …pretty cool huh? Other ways Midi Guitar has helped me to become a better guitar player are simple things like practicing my guitar using Midi Guitar while playing to the synth patch … I like to do that in MainStage because some synth patches are percussive , some swell , some evolve over time …all cool stuff for guitar players of all abilitys to work on …. AS far as how I use Midi Guitar the most , it is pretty simple in my case . I use Midi Guitar to trigger all my synths VIA my guitar and playing in the music productions and tunes I may be working on . Midi Guitar tracks so well , most of the time all my performances are done in real time …my keyboard chops are pretty low , so Midi Guitar has been a great app for me. Anyway , it has been nice rapping with you guys , I know I left a long review , but if you happen to want to hear how I have used Midi Guitar on some home produced recordings feel free to goggle Guitarist Kenny Wilson . My soundcloud page has a bunch of music that was done w Midi Guitar …I don;t play keys at all so if you hear a synth …it was done with Mid Guitar all the best , Kenny

Works very well for me with Logic Pro X.

I am a professional musician that has been playing the guitar and bass for over 35 years and have tried many of the main midi guitar converters out there. I have had the Roland, the Axon AX-100, the Sonuus and have found the MIDI Guitar to be the best. When recording, it has very few glitch or ghost notes and tracks very well. I have since sold my AX-100, which was one of the best when I purchased it. I would highly recommend this product. Great customer support also.