Routing MIDI from Guitar Pro 8 to Logic Pro 10.4.4

My client explained that he had followed this tutorial to set up the connection between Guitar Pro and Logic Pro X.

Everything seemed to be working, but certain notes were not being played back by Logic’s sampler guitar sound.

Guitar Pro has an option to use multiple MIDI channels when transmitting a track’s MIDI data outside the app. This is useful in some situations but doesn’t work well with Logic’s internal guitar sounds. I advised my client to set both 1st and 2nd MIDI channels to MIDI Channel 1. 

Logic’s Sampler uses a complex system of zones and groups to assign samples to be played back under certain MIDI conditions. The main benefit of this is that the velocity of MIDI notes affects the tone of the guitar sound.

The notes in this particular zone in this particular guitar preset (Clean Strat) had only been programmed up to the note G#3. Any MIDI notes received from A3 and above would not make a sound as there is no sample assigned to these notes.

I explained to my client that we could remap the zones of this Logic’s Sampler in order to fix the problem, but the easier solution was to select a different guitar plug-in. I recommended we load Electric Guitar from Native Instruments, which my client had installed on his system as part of Komplete 14. This instrument also had a better, more realistic sound when compared to Logic’s Sampler guitar.