Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your guitar as a MIDI device to control playing virtually any software instrument in real time?
In fact that’s exactly what you can do with a DAW plugin called MiGiC, and you can even download the software and use it free of charge.
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The plugin is still in the testing phase, beta 4 to be exact.
While it’s still in beta testing you can download the VST/AU plugin for Windows or Mac and use it for free.
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If you notice any bugs or issues with MiGiC, just report the problem to the developer and you’ll get setup to receive a serial key to the full release of MiGiC and all future updates upon final release.
According to the MiGiC website, beta 5 is currently under development. It will activate the MIDI FX panel in MiGiC where you will be able to chose a custom MIDI port to send data to, transpose notes, change pitch bend range, add chords, and more to be revealed upon release.
I’ve been testing this plugin and it’s really cool and has all kinds useful applications. You can use it with any kind of software instruments, such as pianos, synths, stringed instruments, loops, and even drums. Some work better than others. The plugin works surprisingly well with Xpand2.
How to Use MiGiC
Here are a few quick steps explaining how you can test MiGiC yourself.
1. Download MiGiC and install the plugin into your DAW of choice.
Magic Audio To Midi Vst Plugins
2. Create an audio track, connect your guitar to it, and add the MiGiC plugin to the track.
3. Create a MIDI track and set the MIDI from input as the audio track that you are running MiGiC on.
4. Add a software instrument of choice to the MIDI track.
5. Activate/record-enable both tracks and start jamming.
There’s a channel on YouTube with in-depth video tutorials explaining how to setup and use MiGiC, and how to fine tune settings to fit your playing style.
Audio To Midi Vst Plugin
Midi Vst Software
Below is a video demo uploaded by Philip Karlsson, the creator of MiGiC, showing how MIDI instruments can be played in real time using a guitar.
MiGiC Guitar To MIDI Demo
via: Ableton Live Expert
Audio To Midi Plugin
“Polycom” is a large library of sounds Polymoog 203a and Polymoog 280a.
For Kontakt 5.8.1 or higher (requires the full version of Kontakt, but not for the free Kontakt Player). Synthesis Polymoog for me is a special synthesis. My full obsession with synthesizers began at a young age around 1979 because of Gary Numan and his album: the principle of pleasure. I must have exhausted this record because I listened to it a lot – it struck me how futuristic it sounded. I remember reading POLYMOOG words and thinking that this word sounds so mysterious and cool, and although I knew that this must be one of those synthesizer machines that I constantly heard about, I had no idea what it was (obviously this was before the internet). So, it was Gary Numan, Chris Payne and Polymog who changed my life path and made me dream of buying synthesizers one day.
I am very glad that I created the Polymoogs library. The Polymoog 203a is a classic synthesizer used in all of Gary’s music, and I named the Polymoog 280a ZOM ZOM library after Gary Numan, and then created the Polymoog 203a library called Polycom after the internal chip in voice cards (don’t worry, you get both Zom Zom and Polycom). Polymoog was also used by people such as Gary Wright, Wendy Carlos, Chick Koria, Jimmy Destry from Blondi, Jeff Downs from Bagles and Asia, Frieze, Ralph Hutter from Kraftwerk, John Fox (Metamatic album) and many others.
• 6.8GB of sample content (compressed to 3.5GB)
• Synth, Effects & Performance sections
• Comes with Original Zom Zom Polymoog 280a library and Zom Zom presets
• Over 450 great Polycom presets & Kontakt multis to get you started
• Arpeggiator – controls include Rate, Order, Strikes, Duration, Swing & Hold
• Effects – Chorus, Tremolo, Phaser, Delay, Fanger, Rotor & Convolution Reverbs
• Extra filter types
• EQ’s – A completely flexible 3 Band EQ
• Extra modulation routings
• MIDI sync LFO’s – controls include Speed, Depth, LFO Shape, Modwheel Amount & Sync
• MIDI Sync delays
• Amplitude & Filter Envelopes – including full ADSR controls
• Global Controls – Velocity, Pitchbend, Portamento & Volume
• Note: Requires the Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.2.1 or above (NOT compatible with the free Kontakt Player)
• Perfect for all types of Pop, Rock, Jazz, Synthpop and Electronica music!