eMedia GuitarPro 5.1 Win/Mac

by eMedia

Product Features

• RSE gives real-time playback of scores with realistic sound samples
• Powerful and intuitive tablature editor for composing and transcribing
• Enter notes using keyboard keys, mouse clicks on fretboard, or MIDI instrument
• Can handle up to 256 tracks; supports 4- to 7-stringed instruments
• Create lead sheets, scores, or lesson sheets for students

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000GAMYSK
• Item model number: IP07061
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 10, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,762 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #22 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Instruction

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Guitar Pro 5.1 is a complete workshop for guitarists at an affordable price. Guitar Pro is known as the most powerful and intuitive tablature editor on the market. New advanced notation features add drum notation, vocal notation, and tablature support for any stringed instruments with four to seven strings! You can create complete scores for a band in minutes. Guitar Pro 5.1 is your total solution for creating lead sheets, scores, or lesson sheets for your students. Guitar Pro 5.1 features the newest in playback technology including RSE-Realistic Sound Engine. RSE gives you real-time playback of your scores with realistic sound samples taken from high-quality guitars and real-time effects such as wah-wah. These new features make Guitar Pro 5.1 the guitar players' best choice for composing and transcribing.

A Powerful, Simple, and Intuitive Editor

Known for its ease of use, Guitar Pro allows you to easily and intuitively enter notes by using keyboard keys, mouse clicks on a fretboard, or directly through a MIDI instrument. It can handle up to 256 tracks, and supports 4- to 7-stringed instruments as well as percussion. It is even possible to enter non-guitar tracks!

Tablature and Standard Notation

Primarily designed for tablatures, Guitar Pro allows you to switch to standard notation for viewing or editing scores. The two notation systems are bound, and a note entered in one system is automatically added in the other one. The rhythmics are automatically calculated and displayed by Guitar Pro. You just have to enter the note duration and let Guitar Pro do the work!

Realistic Sound Engine

An ultra-realistic playback of your score with effects derived from a proprietary technology based on genuine guitar samples. Your music has never sound so alive!

Complete Mix Table Included

Perfect for when you want the computer to accompany you, Guitar Pro allows you to set track audio parameters such as:

• the instrument
• the volume
• the chorus
• the reverb
• mute one (or several) tracks.

Guitar Chords at your Fingertips:

Easily find any chord you need with the tools included in Guitar Pro!
Use the Chord Generator as a reference, or to easily add chord diagrams to the score. Ask for any chord in any tuning, and Guitar Pro will show you every diagram possible. Create a chord diagram by clicking on the grid, and Guitar Pro will give you all the corresponding names.

A Complete Workshop for the Guitarist!

In addition to the Chord Diagram Generator, you also get:

• The Scales Tool: view and listen to a large number of scales, from the most common to the most exotic.
• The Digital or MIDI Tuner: plug your MIDI instrument into your computer or use a microphone.
• The Fretboard and the Keyboard: visually add notes to your score!
• The Metronome and the Countdown: listen to the tempo while playing.

Import, Export, and Share!

• Import and export MIDI- and ASCII-format files. Enjoy the tens of thousands of tablatures available on the Internet in Guitar Pro format.
• The WAVE Export allows you to convert a Guitar Pro file into an audio file. This way, it will be playable without Guitar Pro, and you can burn it onto an audio CD.
• Print out your scores to share with friends!
• The BMP Export allows you to save your tablatures to a bitmap image, which can be integrated into a Web page to show it off!

Product Description

Guitar Pro 5.1 has all the tools you need to improve, compose and accompany yourself on the guitar. It's got a multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo, bass and other stringed instruments. Scale tools and a chord diagram editor lets you create the perfect score and the guitar composition you've always wanted.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For use with classical guitar, December 16, 2009

By 

Farrell Aultman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: eMedia GuitarPro 5.1 Win/Mac (CD-ROM)

This review is written from the prospect of using Guitar Pro for Classical Guitar purposes. I have tried many notation programs for classical guitar. None are perfect. I've concluded that you need a high end music notation program for professional looking scores and another program for doing transcriptions for personal use or sharing.

On the high end, the choices are Finale, Sibelius, or Lilypond. I chose Finale for this purpose. You can do anything with it, but there is a steep price to pay. It is not intuitive at all, and it's expensive. The interface is a cluster of years of buildup. One wouldn't design a user interface like this from scratch. If I didn't already own Finale, I'd might go with Lilypond, or look more carefully into Musecore.

But I decided that I needed a notation program for simple transcriptions. Here are the ones that I tried in increasing order of my preference:

1) TablEdit - seen some decent scores for this one on the web. Deal breaker the UI is confusing. I'd just as well use Finale for everything.

2) Power Tab - interface OK, free, lots of features. Deal breaker most of the focus is on the tab representation, very little on standard notation.

3) Tux Guitar - nice interface, very similar to Guitar Pro, free. Deal breaker can't add fingerings. This program may eventually catch Guitar Pro.

4) Guitar Pro - nice interface, will do just about everything necessary easily. Can display/print standard notation only, tab notation, or both. Output is very good. ASCII import. Drawbacks for standard notation are that fingering are unconventional in location and labeling, bar can only be specified though text input, crescendo specified through volume control which is tied to a track(s).

In the end, the decision was an easy one. It just took a while to download all of the programs and try them out. Hopefully, I just saved you a little time.

Update 11-04-2010:

Since I wrote this review, I've switched from Finale to Lilypond. Even though I am a programmer, I was intimidated by Lilypond until I discovered using Frescobaldi (available on Linux only) as a front end. This system is just a pleasure to use and way easier than Finale. Lilypond doesn't do tab very well at the moment, so I'll likely continue using Guitar Pro when I need tab.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Program For Guitar & Bass Players, April 23, 2008

By 

Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

For over 10 years now I have tabbed songs by ear, and frequently used many of the millions of tabs you can find online, however I would be doing them in whats called an ASCII (Ask ee) method, and i've been fine with that up until I recently discovered this AWESOME program.

ASCII for me now is a thing of the past now that I have discovered this program.

It's quick and easy to install. It works for both Windows and Mac systems.

So you open the program up, and you get a blank music sheet. Then all you simply have to do is click where you want to insert your note, and type it in, and use the arrows, and also use the many tools that come with it to create your songs.

It shows it in both tabliture, and music notation form whenever you insert your note into either of the two bars. So that is a great feature for those who read both tab and proper notation sheet music.

Once you have done your tab, and sorted out the tools for the notes. You can press a play button and it will play what you have tabbed out. So you can actually listen to it! A feature that will help improve so many players out there, and also help musicians to compose music.

And tho I sound like an infomercial, thats not all, you can also have multiple tracks. You can have as many guitar tracks as you want, bass tracks, percussion, even banjos, harmonicas, bagpipes... the (drum tab being tabbed out is not that of drum tabs tho)

All those tracks (separate paged tabs)will all play together at the same time when you hit play, or you can chose options to play them solo, or which one's you want to hear and don't with a simple S for solo, or M for mute option. Or neither to have them just play.

Also each track (tab page) is easily tunable. by default it is EADGBE but you can select from a heap of pre-set tunings, or just type in your own tuning. You can also have 4 to 7 strings for the tab notation, not just the standard 6.

There is also an extension for this program called Real Sound Engine (RSE) the G-pro is about 11 megs, but the RSE 300 or more meg add on is an option you might like. What it does is allows you to select what you wan't your instrument to sound like. So rather then it sound like a MIDI file during playback, you can have realistic guitars and effect sounds, bass, drums, etc... it does add so much life to your music. You can even then export your tab into wav form or midi, as well as some other audio forms.

The program even has great import options. You can import your old ASCII tabs straight into this program with the click of a button. It ignores all the |----| and just imports the numbers to the corresponding string.

You may just have to change the .txt extension to .tab if it fails for you. But I think it works both ways. If not, just open up word pad and save it as whatever.tab. And GP5 will open it no problems.

Not only that, it even allows you to import "Power Tabs" and various other forms of music.

I can't think of anything this program can not do already that I would wish for it to do. If someone had have said to me to give thoughts about what you would like to see in a tab editor, believe me, I could not have come up with an idea half as good as this program.

If you have not got this program, you don't know what you are missing out on.

Authors note: review applies to Guitar Pro version: 5.2

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, July 19, 2008

By 

Ben Hudson (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: eMedia GuitarPro 5.1 Win/Mac (CD-ROM)

this program is great and easy to use and good for either composing or for learning songs. almost any song you want is available tabbed out and free for download online. the CD i got didnt install right and threw errors, but you can download it using the product key that comes with the CD.