G7 Kontakt Edition

by Sibelius

Product Features

• Easy-to-use tool for creating tab
• Can also create standard musical notation and lyrics
• Create Scorch files for publishing on the internet
• Imports ASCII tab (.txt) and standard midi files (.mid)
• Create audio files from your score/tab and burn them to a CD or mp3

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002WT64M
• Item model number: 9910-42461-00
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,210 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #55 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Libraries
  • #66 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Notation & Composition

Product Description

The fastest, easiest way to create, play, and post tab. If you’ve been frustrated by the lack of dedicated music software for your instrument, help is at hand. G7 Kontakt Edition is the world’s first program to offer true and complete support for guitars - acoustic, classical and electric. With G7 it’s easy to compose, arrange or simply write out an existing song and then print it, publish it on the Internet and burn it to CD using the new Kontakt sample library from Native Instruments. Of course, songwriters can create additional parts such as keyboards, drums and other instruments. And you can import any MIDI or ASCII tab file into G7 and learn the fingerings from the on-screen fretboard.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Even Better than before..., September 27, 2005

By 

M. Aschkynazo (Los Angeles CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: G7 Kontakt Edition (CD-ROM)

See my previous review for G7 (from before Kontakt update.)
This is a great program, with no bugs to speak of, and even faster than it was. I'm now at the point where I can do a fairly involved lead sheet in a half-hour. It's a fine teaching tool, and its font choices are all you could ask for. You can arrange 4 instruments (the most I'd use) easily. It will play back my arrangements so I can check for accuracy. It's completely in sync with my Mac. It's a pro tool.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, September 25, 2005

By 

John K. "John" (Jacksonville, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: G7 Kontakt Edition (CD-ROM)

DOES handle 6 channel midi guitar input - I don't know what the previous reviewer's problem was. Also the manual is excellent, the printed output is publication quality. handles tab and notation and converts back and forth with a mouse click. Also imports ASCII tab files of which there are thousands for free on the Internet. Scanning works but you must be careful to use clean printed originals. Aldo Kontakt is a nice set of guitar and pop music oriented sounds. Overall very good program - well designed and a good value. Far and away exceeds its competition in this category - Finale Guitar.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for Guitar, but for all fretted instruments and more, October 27, 2007

By 

Rachelle Ayala (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: G7 Kontakt Edition (CD-ROM)

The Sibelius G7 supports all sorts of fretted instruments, including banjos, steel guitar, dulcimers, mandolins, gamba, requinto, sitars, ukulele, vihuela, dobro and lute. In addition you can add keyboards: piano, electric, synthesizer, honky-tonk, percussion: all sorts of drums, cymbals, tambourine, wood blocks, handbells, too many to list, string instruments: treble and bass clef, and voices.

For the guitars and fretted instruments it easily converts from notation to tab and vice versa by selecting and then copy/paste. You can also edit the tab properties to your liking, and watch the playback on the fretboard.

There are also preconfigured staffs, that have the most popular combinations of instruments, even a mariachi band is included.

Note entry is easy and intuitive. You can use the mouse, or keyboard, and also click on the fretboard. The documentation and tutorial are clear and easy to follow, and within minutes you will be composing or transcribing some music, arranging to fit your band or ensemble, and printing it out or uploading to the Sibelius G7 website to share with others. The printed output is nice looking too and comes with several styles including Jazzy and Handwritten. The program itself seems stable on my Windows system, unlike Noteworthy which caused the computer to hang (losing my work when I rebooted).

Finally, G7 will meet most of your needs for small ensembles and bands, and unless you are composing a symphony, you won't need the really expensive Sibelius Professional edition. The price is right and it's fun to use. The included Kontakt sounds emulate the fretted instruments pretty well. I should also mention that it does notation for guitar special effects like pull-offs and hammer-on, bends and releases, slides, trills and vibrato, tremolo arm bends, slides and scoops, as well as notation for chord slashes and strums. Chord diagrams can also be easily created above the staff. There is just so much included, you won't be disappointed.