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 I haven't tried to edit chords yet. But, I was under the impression that it could be done.  Is this tutorial what you need:  http://youtu.be/aJQzydSpPgI#aid=P8hZxQ9fm5A

Yes, you can definitely edit chords, but the chords you can change them to are limited to the same ones that the software can autodetect (major, minor, 7th, etc.).  You can't manually type in something like a slash chord.

I wonder if anyone knows of other good guitar software?  I just ran into something called RIffstation.  It will take just about any audio file and show you the chords in it.  It does a bunch of other stuff as well such as changing the speed and pitch, isolating solos and looping,  Anyway, I downloaded the demo (http://www.riffstation.com/) yesterday and ended up buying it the same day.  I recently took a very large CD collection and put in on my PC and these are now all available for me to play - pretty cool!

I'm a fan of RiffStation too.  I bought it the same day that I installed the demo as well.  I use it mostly for playing along with my acoustic on strum-heavy songs.  The chord-viewer is basically like a quick and dirty auto-tab generator that is perfectly synced with your mp3.  Or in other words, like GoPlayAlong without having to sync up the tab to the music.  I just wish the chord-viewer allowed me to manually edit in custom chords (add9's, slash chords, etc.).  It's fine that it doesn't auto-detect them, but it should let me type them in.  I also wish it had capo support, so that you could make all the chord names relative to the capo.

I actually originally bought it because I was impressed with the ability to isolate and mute the guitar track (works better on some songs than others), but now I think the chord-viewer is the killer feature.

 

Amplitube

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/cat-view.php?C=family-amplitube

Lets you set up amps and pedals and play guitar via a usb cable long before rocksmith came out. Though haven't used it in a long time now as Rocksmith contains pretty much the same functionality.

 

If anyone is at all, even remotely, interested in Amplitube, NOW is the time to get it.  There is a "group buy" promotion going on right now (8 days left) that is not a typical sale.  Their last promotion like this was a few years ago.  Basically, the full version of Amplitube 3 and Amplitube Fender are reduced to $99 (from $199 and $149 respectively), and you get free additional collections depending on how many people participate in the Group Buy.  Right now you get 2 free collections (retail $99 each)...so you buy Amplitube 3 and get Fender and Orange collections for free.  It's a pretty safe bet that it will get up to 3 or 4 free collections before the 8 days are up.

http://www.ikmultimedia.com/atgb/

I loved Amplitube before...love it even more now that I have the Fender and Orange collections.

Wait, can you "switch off the amp emulation"?  I do what you are describing, and go into the game's Mixer and adjust my guitar volume down to 0, but my guess is that the game is still emulating the amp...it's just not outputting the sound.

 As the developers, (charters), in my mind own their time and work, if they choose to share it with us that's great. If they don't, that's ok too. We still owe them our thanks for allowing us to see it at some point.

All of this pious respect to "ownership rights" is comical given the nature of what we're talking about here.