Lousy Sound??

[Patrick Patterson]

I posted months ago asking how to get my playback to sound like a guitar. Is there another Midi I should be using??

I have other software (ie: D'Accord chord finder that plays a real guitar sound and not some cheap synth sound.

I'd like very much to get my Powertab songs to sound like a guitar.

Can someone please let me know IF this is even possible??

Other than this I love the software and would recommend it highly!

[Eoin Brennan]

its not possible with power tab, power tab only uses midi sounds. other software (like Guitar Pro) have realistic guitar sounds, but they arent open source, Guitar Pro is about €60 i think

[John McCabe]

On 19/07/2010 02:43, Patrick Patterson wrote:
> I posted months ago asking how to get my playback to sound like a
> guitar. Is there another Midi I should be using??
> I have other software (ie: D'Accord chord finder that plays a real
> guitar sound and not some cheap synth sound.

I haven't used the D'Accord stuff, but given that they seem to be a
commercial organisation, I suspect they've developed stuff that either
uses sampled sounds or a decent synthesised implementation.

Powertab however is free software that outputs MIDI information to a
MIDI device. If the only MIDI device you've got on your system is the
Microsoft Software Synthesiser then the sound is going to be pretty poor.

You could take a look at:

http://www.power-tab.net/getarticle.php?id=91

You could presumably download some standalone software synths from
somewhere that will accept MIDI input , then use something like LoopBe1
(http://nerds.de/en/loopbe1.html) to connect the output of Powertab to
the input of the soft synth.