I need to do more....

Ok, I haven't been doing the blog at all. I am going to try to post a lot more.
Teaching guitar lessons is my main priority at the current time. This takes up most of my time at night after I get home-- doing transcriptions, chord charts, handouts etc.... I use Sibelius for notation. I can input scales exercises or any exercises for guitar with my Axon AX-50 and my Brian Moore MC1p.13.

Here are some recent comments I have come across or contributed to recently about Sibelius and midi guitar.
Person is trying use a Gr-1 for midi input. This unit is old and a few generation back for Midi conversion.
I recommend the Axon Ax-50

I have both the Gi-20 and the Axon Ax-50. No sounds in either of them.
I use Sibelius to input stuff for lessons with the Axon. It is quicker than the Gi-20 especially on the bottom two strings. Harder to setup but worth the effort and the added features. It has a software editor so, no editing on board like the Gi-20. If you are doing simple projects and not worried about playing fast runs , etc the Gi-20 should work -- easier to work with and setup. When I am doing serious stuff I use the Axon.
Gi-20 $395 vs Axon $495 or so...

Set the units to how you play- sensitivities, etc.
Also in G7, there is a midi input filtering under "Notes/Note input options"
that has to be adjusted to get clean notation I have my velocities set to 40

--I'll still need a sound card or recording interface, or should/could I use the Kontakt Player that comes w/G7?
The Gi-20 and the Axon AX-50 are USB so they do not have to go through an audio interface. You can use the audio output from the computer and use the Kontakt player in G7. I would use Kontakt for playback.

**If I was going to give a student an audio cd of an exercise, I would actually record my guitar audio(with an audio interface) into Logic or GarageBand to match the notation. The playback on G7 might be a little stiff. Bends, slides... do not playback well.

--Another person uses "Sibelius all day every day to input notation and tab, using midi guitar is the most time consuming way of doing. Sibelius' midi guitar input is useless, it doesn't recognize what string you're playing (easily implemented) doesn't recognize string bends and arpeggios come out as a whole mess of tied notes.
I use a cheap USB midi keyboard to input pitches and step input the rhythms, it's pretty quick and needs no clean up."
**Sibelius will recognize what string you are on. Set the midi guitar channels under: "Play/Playback and Input devices". Also set tab range for tab notation.
Arpeggios can be solved with the plugin: "Remove overlapping" notes under Notes and Rest.


I just had a thought-- maybe I will set up my video camera and try to demostrate Sibelius transcribing from the guitar live.
I do not know when I can get to it and post it on www.guitarhelper.net

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