Guitar As A MIDI Controller-Amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5IVj_x6UUQ
Does anyone know if this can be done with sonar x3??? this is amazing!
i want to do this!!!!!   

The Jam Origin MIDI Guitar software is very good for this. You do still have to play quite cleanly, although it does pick up most chords. Where it struggles is recognising octaves and repeated notes, as it's obviously hard to spot where one stops and the next starts.

Be advised that Melodyne Editor does not provide pitch bend information in an audio-to-MIDI conversion. Do not upgrade to Editor expecting to see this functionality.
 
Edit: My phone never catches grammar errors for me!

To answer the original question, yes there are ways to do this with Sonar, with other software products (vsts). Don't know if there is a "free" solution that works (Synodeia is free, does it work?), but there's Jam Origin, Intelliscore Ensemble (convincing video demo on utoob), maybe others, although there's a bunch of discontinued products if you search (looks suspiciously like the developers threw their hands up in the air). As other comments above say, you're likely to be disappointed looking at a software solution. Like cutthroughrecordings says in the video, latency is an issue and no dynamics. You have to play around with eliminating fret noises too. For non-live transcribing, maybe. For live performance? Meh.
 
(Now, this isn't necessarily a Sonar solution, but I've heard that there are some IOS apps that have made significant headway in this area.)
 
One has to figure that after years of trying the software audio-to-midi route, the best solutions are still hardware. Here's an actual quote from an old (2007) harmony central forum post: "Mr. Anderton, i was wondering why you never make a Realtime Guitar to MIDI app/plugin ?" I'm guessing one reason is because it's darn hard! Consider this too, keyboard players are willing to walk away from their beloved baby grands to play midi controller keyboards. Why? Because piano-audio-to-midi (via software) doesn't work well either. That is, it's not just a guitar issue, it's an every-instrument, including voice, issue. Keyboard players just got over it and went with the hardware "work-around" (midi-controller keyboards).
 
I do use a Godin guitar with the built-in midi (13-pin as mentioned above), and I'm pretty happy with it. If I want to transcribe something, I just record at a slower tempo to allow my limited playing skills to be cleaner! But I don't have to slow down much and I can play all six strings at once and they all get put on the Piano Roll (or, ugh, Staff View). I also use the Godin live a lot and I get pretty accurate results even when playing fast and sloppy (my signature style--uh, the sloppy, not the fast). Actually, for some live work I have the guitar controlling a soft synth in Sonar AND also, in parallel, a computer doing real-time animation (www.voxspectra.com if you are curious what it looks/sounds like). In that live situation, there is so much to worry about, a few fluffed notes are way low on my list!

I've used JAM Origin with Finale to write music notation. Latency is not a problem as long as you turn off Finale's sounds. You're playing guitar, so you don't need more sounds since you can already hear what you're playing. It works very well for me. I suspect the latency issues deal with sound generation and not MIDI detection.

The thing with Jam Origin is, the company finished the initial release of MIDI Guitar this time last year put out a (broken at least for me) beta of MIDI Bass and effectively vanished. No word or update on either product. I bought the original MIDI Guitar beta when they offered a decent discount, not sure I would buy now even at that price given how quite the company has been.

I remember playing someone's MIDI guitar sometime in the early 90's. It was a Fender Strat with a MIDI pickup as I recall. I played it into Cubase on an Atari ST and we had it triggering a Proteus 3. I was actually quite amazed at how well it converted my fingerstyle playing. I recorded a set piece and then went into Cubase to tidy up the notes in the score editor. It really didn't need that much work, just a few bum notes here and there. My technique was probably very solid back then, I used to practice 5-6 hours a day. But even so, I wasn't expecting such good results. Imagine my surprise when, over 20 years later, it doesn't seem to have improved that much. LOL!
 
I've done a lot of polyphonic guitar to MIDI conversion with Melodyne. It's been quite hit and miss for me. Sometimes the results are good, sometimes I have to tell Melodyne that it's drunk and should go home 
 
One thing I've found that helps with Melodyne is if you turn the tone pot on your guitar all the way down. 

sharke
I've done a lot of polyphonic guitar to MIDI conversion with Melodyne. It's been quite hit and miss for me. Sometimes the results are good, sometimes I have to tell Melodyne that it's drunk and should go home 
 

I'm pretty sure you are sharke, but you're low and high pass fltering the audio before processing it right?

200bpm
Even if it could track every note, it would be impossible to learn to play a guitar like a piano. 

Huh ? what ? , no love for the ole one handed piano player 
 
https://soundcloud.com/guitarist-kenny-wilson/midi-guitar-practice-s-f-m-father
 
Kenny

Michayl: Go listen to Pat Metheny last train home , then you can begin to understand just how hard it is to play and land the part.... I know only 1 person who can come even close ..to land a perfect part you have to play it ahead of the track...if you get a chance chk out the old ARP Avatar...good luck !