Real instrument track to software track?

Hi,
is it possible to convert a real instrument track back to a software track? Since Garageband has a real instrument tuner built in, it should have everything needed built in to recognize the notes of the real instrument track.
That would be even cooler in real time: imagine striking some notes on your guitar and hear a piano sound in realtime ...
Any ideas?
Tom
  Other OS  

yeah if you use melodine or some other software you may be able to.
but not inside garageband. apple currently don't support that...
converting software track to real instrument just means that creating audio file it's same as recording instruments yourself.

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