Midi Guitar for Garage Band brings a lot to the table for guitar players

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

Guitarist Kenny Wilson about MIDI Guitar for GarageBand