GUITAR FOR THE NON-GUITAR PLAYER

Since I started using my FX, I have been trying to find away to set it up for guitar playing. Not being a sufficient guitar player, playing parts on an acutual guitar and recording audio is not an option for me. I don't need anything extremely realistic. Just close enough. It finally hit me that sys ex messages would do the trick.

I started with choosing a decent guitar patch and setting it to 6 parts in the mixer. Starting with C4 and going through A6, the keyboard range is set on each part for that one key only. Part 1, C4, Part 2, D4, and so on.
Then I go to the part view/ Pitch tab and recording into a pattern, I set the OCT and CRS for each part to make each key play the appropriate "string" on the guitar. Then go back to micro edit and place the sysex messages at the beginning of the pattern. Repeat this process in a new pattern for each chord you want and assign these patterns to keys/pads as needed.

You always have the same 6 keys on the keyboard representing the 6 guitar strings. Pick and strum to your hearts content.

I have attached a sample file so you can see it in action.
Chords are D (with a drop D), A and G with the patterns assigned to D2, A2 and G2. These are the only three I have done yet as I just started this and it does take some time.

When recording the patterns, I only record on movement at a time to keep as few sysex messages as possible in the pattern. For example. If you need OCT at -1 and CRS at -8, select the pattern to record on, goto the Pitch tab and select the OCT field for the note you are changing. Press record, change it to -1 and stop recording. Select the CRS field and change it to -7, press record, change it to -8 and stop recording. It takes a little longer to setup, but keeps is cleaner.

Let me know what you think. Any ideas for improvement would be greatly appreciated. I'm far from being an expert on this.

Carl.