looking for a guitar program

[ardentcrest]

I'm looking for a free program that will let me change the sound of my guitar when i play it thought the computer I.E. make it sound like a banjo or a keyboard or a chorus of voices.

can anyone help it must be free.

[Zidane]

You can connect any shynteticer to the midi track.

Shyntes:
* Hipersonic
* Addictive Drums
* Korg Legasy
* Albino3
* Cakewalk Rapture
* Spectrasonic Atmosphere
* Predator
* Native Instruments FM8
* Native Instruments Battery3
* Native Instruments Kontak2
* Abshynth

[Destron]

I don't think you can do that with a guitar, since each string is, well a string.
The way MIDI keyboards work is that each key is mapped to an interface which tells the computer which note is being played. I'd really be surprised if a guitar can do that, unless you have some sort of "MIDI guitar".

[ardentcrest]

what I'm looking for is that i can plug in my guitar in to my computer and have it sound like a banjo or a keyboard or a chorus of voices. I know I can be done as I've seen it on stage.

[Destron]

Hmmm, he may have been using something like a talkbox -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkbox

I don't know the capabilities of such a tool, but it is often used with a guitar.

[paradoxnj]

Ardentcrest...Zidane was correct. You need a guitar synthesizer. Unfortunately you won't find any free ones. The "free" way is to convert the audio from the guitar to MIDI then load into a VST synthesizer. That takes waayyyy too long and is a PITA to get it accurate.

You can start here

[ardentcrest]

Will try that Mr P.

This is what I want to do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plTVUfQe ... re=related

[paradoxnj]

Ahh...he is using a MIDI converter which is connected to his keyboard. The guitar notes are being translated to MIDI commands and instructing the keyboard to play the notes. He has a pedal in front of him which is changing the keyboard sounds. It's all hardware based. It's something like this.

[dylanwinn]

Audacity will let you change the sound in pretty much any way, with more effects than most effects pedals.

* Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
* Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
* Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects.
* Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
* Other built-in effects include:
o Echo
o Phaser
o Wahwah
o Reverse

Download: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

More Effects: http://www.ladspa.org/

As for the voices effect, my friend has a $50 foot pedal that does that, but the voices are kinda robotic.