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> I realized that continuous string instruments (guitar) that have things like slides, bends are quite difficult to capture in MIDI.

It's just pitch bend?

I think trying to transcribe as MIDI is just a fundamentally flawed approach that has too many (well known) pitfalls to be useful.

A trained human can listen to a piece and transcribe it in seconds, but programming it as MIDI could take minutes/hours. If you're not trying to replicate how humans learn by ear, you're probably approaching this wrong.