Guitar Pro 6 (bilingual software)

(as of 28/08/2010 03:35 - more info)

$60 $47

Listed Under: Linux

Guitar Pro 6 is the standard in guitar tablature editing, now with 40 new features, a new interface and mixing table, and more improvementsProvides an optimal display of your score, together with all ..read more

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Guitar Pro is first and foremost software designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings. Its great ease of use and the success of its specific file format have made it software used by guitarists worldwide. It now includes editing support for many other instruments like the piano or the drums, a realistic audio engine, and interactive tools to support every musician’s practice. Since its release, Guitar Pro has become known as the most powerful and intuitive tablature editor on the market. It stands as the definitive leader in its class! Guitar Pro is the top software choice of guitarist worldwide looking for a solution to learn, practice and teach guitar. The release of Guitar Pro 6 has been eagerly awaited by its millions of users and includes over 40 new features while improving those that have made it the success it is today. New features include : – A new easy-to-use User Interface (including full screen mode) – Piano Grad Staff – New notation symbols – Parametric equalization on each track – Over 50 pedal effects and over 100 instruments – Configurable tones – Tap tempo – Jazz fonts – Anacrusis – A new, complete mixing table. Since the Guitar Pro format has become a true standard on the Internet, the software will let you enjoy thousands of scores that are already available over many websites.

5 Reviews

  1. Greg Rebuck says:
    August 25, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Hey music lubbers. I wanted to write this review anyway but even more so that GP6 has received some tough criticism. Much of the dissatisfaction is from owners of previous versions of Guitar Pro. Since I’m new to the product I have a different perspective, one not colored by certain expectations. By the way, I’m also a software developer so I can add that to the equation as well.

    From my “dual point-of-view” GP6 is both a great musical tool and a well-done piece of software. The slams it’s gotten for being unresponsive, hard to use, buggy, etc. are a bit exaggerated. I believe those who have trouble with it don’t have computers with the required firepower; it does ask for a fairly modern machine and it’s not kidding! Though I’ve had it crash a few times, this is certainly no worse than Firefox; moreover, the program does very frequent updates that happen hemidemisemi-automatically.

    It has a rich and satisfying palette of tools for painting your musical masterpiece. It has a plethora (oh yes El Guapo…a plethora!) of RSE2 instruments to fill up your canvas. Some of them sound great (fine oil paint), some are “good enough” (acrylics) and some are like throwing a crayon into the dryer (uh, don’t try this!) Strangely, the best sounding ones are guitars and similar stringed instruments; oh wait, this is *Guitar* Pro, not Bassoon Hero!

    I also love the effects/amps you can use to shade and enrich your tableau. They really make a dramatic difference to the sound, just as they do in the real world. You can try out effects you don’t quite understand instead of “Daddy, what does a phaser do?” “Well son, it’s used to kill Klingons.” Yeah, dad’s a trekkie, not a musician.

    You probably already know that there are thousands of GP-based tab/chord downloads out there; unfortunately, it’s hard to find sites that use the new .gpx format at this time. Regardless, GP6 can import all of its predecessor formats and others such as Power Tab. It also does a nice job with many ASCII tab files, which surprised me somewhat.

    As nice as all of these features are, composition/playback is the heart of the package. Let’s just keep it simple here. You can represent just about any musical notation and the scores are easy to manipulate. You’d likely go bonkers trying to figure out how many possible built-in scales there are, and what each term means; learn Latin and Italian if you really want to know what these are (c’mon, you really just wanna impress chicks–I know you!) The playback will let you set each track individually so you can use it for backing while you play…say…your bagpipes. And if you want to input via something other than a computer keyboard, voila, summon the useful (albeit slightly hokey) virtual fretboard/keyboard. Better yet, attach a MIDI piano/synth and do a live ‘captcha’.

    Anyway, you can find all of this out yourself, I’m just letting you know what I find impressive about Guitar Pro 6. Get a copy and let’s all paint some great scores together!

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  2. Cindy says:
    August 18, 2010 at 12:00 am

    I’m a big fan of this program. I play here and there and love learning new songs. There are a lot of sites out there with guitar pro files you can load into this program. You can then assign guitar sounds and effects to the songs to make the realistic. You can also assign sounds to drums, bass, etc. This is a very nice part of the program.

    I also write a little and found guitar pro to be a very easy to use song writing tool for guitar parts. It seems very intuitive and the button layout all makes sense.

    I’m on a Mac and didn’t have any issues installing or running the program. It really has the feel and elegance of a Mac program.

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  3. Phillip Green says:
    July 26, 2010 at 12:00 am

    Too slow and cumbersome to use. Prefer the free version of Power Tabs. Much faster and easier to use.

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  4. Frank Klien says:
    June 7, 2010 at 12:00 am

    GuitarPro has a huge range of features and is ease of use. Compared to other tablature, I was surprised at how quickly I was able to pick up keyboard shortcuts for adding and editing notes. One great feature is Guitar Pro automatically detects the end of bars as you input notes. However, when you go back to edit a bar, it does so non-destructively, preserving the notation after that point. Other score writing apps tend to update in real time, which we’ve often found confusing. Notation’s only part of the program though. There’s built-in soft synth with realistic guitar, bass and drum sounds. With MIDI import, you can use it accompany you as you play – or arrange a song for your band with audio preview. There are even built-in effects and amp emulation to better match the sound you’re after. This is a must have program for all guitarists.

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  5. Karl Roos says:
    June 4, 2010 at 12:00 am

    If you liked the easy use of guitar pro 5.1. you can kiss that good bye. The real sound emulator has improved a ton. sounds great. but a few of the things that made Gp easy to use are gone. The drums you can tab nearly like you could before. so limited when it comes to options on that alone its not funny. a lot of the menus are sideways and hard to read. irritating to try to figure out with the new configuration. The ability to write the drums makes a huge difference to me. And maybe for a lot of others. If you are one of them. i am sorry to have to break the news to you. The easy to read layouts are gone. all it is now is a cluster of buttons not as spread out. it just feels like a big block with buttons. no way to get any sort of other looks or layouts like we could with 5.1. you only have the 6 look. Overall id say if you love the 5.1 worked, yeah maybe the sound could definitly be more real. but if that works for you and you like the way the drums and other things work. stick with that. 6 is a whole new animal…and not really an improvment. where they lacked they improved, and where they had something good, they messed it up.

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