You may just be looking for samples or loops.  Google guitar solo loops.

Bristol_Jonesey
I'd reach out to forum member Danny Danzi.
 
He is an excellent player and I'm sure could, for a small fee, write & play something that fits in with what you need.

You rule, thank you for thinking of/mentioning me kind Sir! :)
 
For those of you depressed about this thread, I lost a gig to this 2 weeks ago:
 
http://www.prominy.com/demo/SC/video/Underwater_World.html
 
The client felt it was better to have his friend program what he was after in that software...which was more money than I would have charged him for a solo section. It really bothers me to see how cheap people are when they really want something done right. I get an email a week later that he changed his mind and wanted me to create the part......I told him to go to the beach....and pound sand up his butt! If you're gonna lose a gig, go down in flames while keeping your dignity! LOL! :)
 
Anyway, something like Prominy may be worth looking at, rontarrant. Personally, you'd be better off just hiring someone to play what you need instead of $400.00 plus expansion packs for that thing. You can ask in the Coffee House forum if anyone would be interested in playing on your piece as well. Quite a few great players who may play on it for free for you.
 
-Danny

I will admit that the sound of that is rather impressive.
 
I wouldn't be upset at all if this becomes the major plug-in slated for X4 pro  

Or you might be thinking of the arpeggiator . X2 has dont know about x3.

Tom Riggs
If you can play what you hear in your head slower. Then play it that tempo and then speed it up.
 
I think you could do this with Audio Snap as long as you are prepared to do the work.
 
I would export a mix to a new project. Import it into a new project set to the same tempo as the project you are working on. Then enable AS on the imported clip. set AS to follow project tempo. Then just slow down the tempo of the project and practice till you can play it at that tempo. 
 
You could practice speeding it up till you find your limit. Then record your guitar track.
comp if necessary. Then bounce the comped track to a new track. 
Enable AS on this new track and set it to follow the tempo. Then change the project tempo back to the original.
 
if this all works then you can bounce the new sped up track to another track and then export that track to import into your original project.
 

Yup, that sounds like a good approach. Thanks for the suggestion, Tom.

vanblah
You may just be looking for samples or loops.  Google guitar solo loops.

I don't know why I didn't think of that particular combination of words, but I found a bunch of stuff. Thanks, vanblah.

Danny DanziAnyway, something like Prominy may be worth looking at, rontarrant. Personally, you'd be better off just hiring someone to play what you need instead of $400.00 plus expansion packs for that thing. You can ask in the Coffee House forum if anyone would be interested in playing on your piece as well. Quite a few great players who may play on it for free for you.

Thanks, Danny. I'm really not trying to put musicians out of work; I hope I didn't put that idea across. Hell, I made a living as a musician for almost two years, so I'm very much in favour of musicians making a living. It was one of the best times of my life.
Composing on spec puts me in a position where I have to do it all myself as cheaply as possible. Right now, I make far more money as an actor and that ain't saying much.
And you're right, it's not worth buying a $400 plugin when a session guitarist could likely to it for half that, if not less (depending on what's needed, of course). I'd even consider it this time if it wasn't for the complexity of the song. I don't write/read music and so I'd have to get it across with gestures, words and humming. I doubt anyone who even understand me.

Start by trying to write what's in you head on the piano roll.
 
Most synths contain a reasonable guitar-like sound to start you off (try the Pentagon, or Dimension Pro)
Some of them might even include hammer-ons & pull-offs.
 
You can easily set the bend range to say an octave if you're wanting Vai-esque dive bombs in there.

Good info Danny. There was a lot of key switching going on in that demo. I mean a lot! You would have to be a very good keyboardist and very familiar with that program to do what we saw in that demo.
 
Step recording with it may be an option. But I am thinking the learning curve and xpacks would really start adding up to "Is this really worth it?"

indravayu
As a guitarist, this thread depresses me.

Heh, as a drummer, the 9000 other threads about drum machines, midi patterns, and drum sound replacement do the same. Fortunately, I've moved on.