Hi Diki,
thank you. Your suggestion would be a good idea. I think there's only about 30 or so styles that use guitar mode tracks, hopefully some of them also use the single note strums I'm currently figuring out.


I've slowly starting to work my way thru guitar mode.
I've managed to work out how to record a couple of simple guitar patterns.
Literally as easy as playing a C2 to get a full strum down or a D2 to get a full strum up. There's 12 of these single notes that trigger a variety of strums, muted strums etc. You don't play any sort of a chord for recording guitar mode tracks.

Once you've recorded the strums you could add RX noises to the track. My playing skills aren't good enough to try & record the strums & RX noises at the same time, so once I work out where they should go, I'll just add the noises in step edit mode. ie fret noises, thumps etc

My problem is I don't know how a guitar is played, though I did find a lesson site this morning that has given me a bit of insight
ie the down stroke appears to be the domininant one ie played slightly heavier & usually on beats 1,2,3,4 wheras the up stroke is played more lightly & not neccesarily over all the strings & usually played on the "&" beat of the bar. Very simplistic but gives me something to try.

Next challenge will be the single strings for arpeggio's & working out what the capo does.

I suppose one way of describing what these strummed notes are , is like having a time slice of a strummed chord ( except there's no audio involved).

I have a feeling guitar mode will only work correctly within it's own environment ie that the chords will play back in correct guitar voicing.ie that if saved as a midifile & then converted to just say a psr, ( using midi to style software) the correct voicing may not be maintained when played back by the psr.
I'd even have to check to see if the strummed single notes get expanded into individual notes, I think they do, but I'd have to double check.

Guitar mode is not a function that revoices chords ie you play in a piano chord voicing and it gets corrected to a guitar voicing which is what the Roland does??? or so I thought.

It's really quite an interesting process.

I'm as useless a guitar player as I am a drummer. Be nice to be able to come up with something that sounds as if it really could have been played by a guitarist instead of being programmed on a keyboard. Bit like some of the drum patterns ,where a drummer would have needed 3 arms to play what has been programmed. Not that I'd have a clue, but has been pointed out to me. haahaa

When I get further into it , hopefully I can explain a bit more.

best wishes
Rikki

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