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- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / XP, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Linux
- Media: DVD-ROM
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Guitar Pro 6, a Win/Mac hybrid, is the ultimate toolbox for the guitarist! It includes all the tools you need to improve, compose and accompany yourself on the guitar. This simple and intuitive multitrack tablature editor is specifically designed for guitar, bass or other stringed instruments.
 The ultimate toolbox for the guitarist. Click to enlarge. |
 All the tools you need to improve, compose and accompany yourself on the guitar. Click to enlarge. |
 Switch from tablature view to standard notation for viewing or editing scores. Click to enlarge. |
 Request any chord in any tuning, and Guitar pro will display all possible finger positions for you. |
Guitar Pro 6 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. Advanced notation features add drum notation, vocal notation and tablature support for any stringed instruments with four to seven strings. The newest version, Guitar Pro 6.0, includes over 40 new features while improving on those that have made it the most popular guitar tablature editor available.
Known for its ease of use, Guitar Pro allows you to enter notes by using keyboard keys, mouse clicks on an on-screen fretboard or directly through a connected MIDI device, all in just a few minutes. This revolutionary software can handle up to 256 tracks and you can switch from tablature view to standard notation for viewing or editing scores. With automatically calculated rhythms, Guitar Pro works out the note durations for you, and when you play the score, the music scrolls along with you, rendering guitar-specific effects like bends and slides.
Also included in Guitar Pro are a digital guitar tuner, a chord diagram engine, and a scales tool. You can easily import and export MIDI and ASCII tab formats allowing Guitar Pro to be used with a limitless number of songs. Tens of thousands of Guitar Pro format files are available on the Internet. The WAVE Export allows you to convert a Guitar Pro file into an audio file which is playable without Guitar Pro and can be burned onto an audio CD.
With its ease-of-use, versatility and variety of tools, Guitar Pro will have you creating music in no time!
Features:
- Multitrack/monotrack display, horizontal or vertical scrolling, the screen display adjusts to your preferences and score types.
- Chord Diagram editor allows you to easily add chord diagrams to your score. Ask for any chord in any tuning and Guitar Pro will show you every diagram possible.
- Scales Tool allows you to view and listen to a large number of scales, from the most common to the most exotic.
- Digital or MIDI Tuner allows you to tune your guitar for every tuning possible, from 4- to 7-strings.
- Fretboard (or Keyboard) allows you to view and enter notes on the score. It is able to show the notes of the current beat, but also the notes for the next beat, the complete bar or the selected scale.
- Metronome gives the tempo while playing a score or even without playing it.
- Professional Quality Paper Printings can be monotrack or multitrack. This way you can print several views of the same score, perfect for a band.
New Features for Guitar Pro 6:
- Over 50 pedal effects and numerous sound banks (guitar, bass, drums, piano, orchestral etc.)
- A New MDI User Interface (including full screen mode)
- Piano Grand Staff
- Rhythm slash
- Simile marks
- Multi-rest
- Concert tone
- Parametric equalization on each track
- Configurable tones
- Tap tempo
- Jazz fonts
- Anacrusis
Guitarist Magazine:
“Guitar Pro is an intelligent, simple, clear and precise tool … the standard of its field.”
Guitar Part:
“Complete and easy to use … for a very low price considering its possibilities…”
RIFF Magazine:
“Guitar Pro is unquestionably the best that can be found in the field of tablature editing for the PC.”
Product Description
Win/Mac(R) Hybrid, Is The Ultimate Toolbox For The Guitarist; Includes All The Tools Needed To Improve, Compose & Accompany On The Guitar; The Simple & Intuitive Multitrack Tablature Editor Is Specifically Designed For Guitar, Bass Or Other Stringed Instruments; Features The Newest In Playback Technology Including Rse - Realistic Sound Engine; Create An Entirely Configurable Effect Chain For Each Instrument, Choosing From More Than 50 Amps & Effect Units
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Since getting Guitar Pro, I have been learning a lot of new songs I'm finding on-line. There are a tun of sites out there with Guitar Pro files with all kinds of songs people have written out the tab for. You load them into Guitar Pro and get the tab and can play them back with some fairly realistic guitar sounds. It has other sounds as well as some songs include bass, drums, etc.
You can also use Guitar Pro to write out your own songs. I've still got a long way to go but am writing out some simple riffs I've written, which is very easy with this program.
Guitar Pro is a cool program.
You can also use Guitar Pro to write out your own songs. I've still got a long way to go but am writing out some simple riffs I've written, which is very easy with this program.
Guitar Pro is a cool program.
33 of 43 people found the following review helpful
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!
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!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I've always kind of liked this program. As a way of saving your own transcriptions it was a solid editor. And in playing its own formats as well as those in Power Tab it was a much friendlier interface than most. The transcriptions for my Truefire courses always come in Power Tab (open format, free player) but I would use Guitar Pro to run them since the interface was much more user friendly.
Along comes version 6, and I upgrade. Lo and behold, the ability to import and play a Power Tab file is now crippled. It may import, but if it does, the odds are pretty good it won't play properly. And before you get ready to reply, "It imports and plays for me," take a deep breath and listen to what you are getting. A/B it with what comes out of GP 5 and you will see what I mean. Oh, and you couldn't do this in the trial version so there was no way of knowing that this had happened. There are a number of users on the Arobas forum who actually think these files are supposed to sound like this. Also note that for some reason, some GP 5 files (or from versions before that) don't even import correctly, although I haven't yet figured out what causes that for one but not the other. Incremental/fix version used for transcription/save maybe.
The workaround for these woes, if you have an up to date copy of GP 5, is to import it into that, save it in the Guitar Pro format, and then read it into GP 6. BTW, I figured that out myself - they were absolutely no help in coming up with it. And it's instructive that when the first complaints came out, their initial response was hostility first and silence afterward. At this stage they have barely acknowledged it, and only recently have made some statements to the effect that they will work on "improving" Power Tab support. Although this is also close to their beginning work on GP 7 so it's even money whether they will wind up making you buy the upgrade to get the fix.
From the perspective of using it as an editor, it was improved. But a lot of the features added offer me no particular value. I don't care much about the multitude of improved, but nevertheless fake sounding instruments, or support for accidentals. So for me this wasn't a worthwhile upgrade, and it's a pretty safe bet I won't be doing any upgrades to 7 until it's been out for a while, I'm satisfied it isn't broken somewhere else and that it actually has some new feature I consider worthwhile. Not holding my breath though. I have not experienced a lot of the crash issues, but since I don't use a lot of the sound crap that's probably not unusual. Those issues ARE there though, and it appears that this may be one of the reasons they aren't fixing the the PT support from reading between the lines in the forum comments.
So in short, if you are thinking about getting this so you can play all those free tabs sitting out there in multiple formats, you might want to take a pass or try to find a copy of Guitar Pro 5 sitting around. Or if you own GP 5 and don't mind doing double work, just go that import/save route if you want the new stuff (better editor but that's about it for me). And also be aware that if you download a tab from and older version like 3 or 4 you might not be able to use it either, at least not if GP 6 is your first purchase.
The interface IS nicer than Power Tab. If you don't have GP 5 my own suggestion would be to just stay with that, and spend the money on some transcription software like Transcribe! or Amazing Slow Downer and figure the thing out yourself if you are buying this as a learning tool. If you are a creating your own, feel free to take the jump but keep the stability issues in mind. In a world of Guitar Hero, does anybody even still look at tab any more anyway?
Along comes version 6, and I upgrade. Lo and behold, the ability to import and play a Power Tab file is now crippled. It may import, but if it does, the odds are pretty good it won't play properly. And before you get ready to reply, "It imports and plays for me," take a deep breath and listen to what you are getting. A/B it with what comes out of GP 5 and you will see what I mean. Oh, and you couldn't do this in the trial version so there was no way of knowing that this had happened. There are a number of users on the Arobas forum who actually think these files are supposed to sound like this. Also note that for some reason, some GP 5 files (or from versions before that) don't even import correctly, although I haven't yet figured out what causes that for one but not the other. Incremental/fix version used for transcription/save maybe.
The workaround for these woes, if you have an up to date copy of GP 5, is to import it into that, save it in the Guitar Pro format, and then read it into GP 6. BTW, I figured that out myself - they were absolutely no help in coming up with it. And it's instructive that when the first complaints came out, their initial response was hostility first and silence afterward. At this stage they have barely acknowledged it, and only recently have made some statements to the effect that they will work on "improving" Power Tab support. Although this is also close to their beginning work on GP 7 so it's even money whether they will wind up making you buy the upgrade to get the fix.
From the perspective of using it as an editor, it was improved. But a lot of the features added offer me no particular value. I don't care much about the multitude of improved, but nevertheless fake sounding instruments, or support for accidentals. So for me this wasn't a worthwhile upgrade, and it's a pretty safe bet I won't be doing any upgrades to 7 until it's been out for a while, I'm satisfied it isn't broken somewhere else and that it actually has some new feature I consider worthwhile. Not holding my breath though. I have not experienced a lot of the crash issues, but since I don't use a lot of the sound crap that's probably not unusual. Those issues ARE there though, and it appears that this may be one of the reasons they aren't fixing the the PT support from reading between the lines in the forum comments.
So in short, if you are thinking about getting this so you can play all those free tabs sitting out there in multiple formats, you might want to take a pass or try to find a copy of Guitar Pro 5 sitting around. Or if you own GP 5 and don't mind doing double work, just go that import/save route if you want the new stuff (better editor but that's about it for me). And also be aware that if you download a tab from and older version like 3 or 4 you might not be able to use it either, at least not if GP 6 is your first purchase.
The interface IS nicer than Power Tab. If you don't have GP 5 my own suggestion would be to just stay with that, and spend the money on some transcription software like Transcribe! or Amazing Slow Downer and figure the thing out yourself if you are buying this as a learning tool. If you are a creating your own, feel free to take the jump but keep the stability issues in mind. In a world of Guitar Hero, does anybody even still look at tab any more anyway?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great program, or would be....
I bought GP6 about 5 months ago, at first I was skeptical, as I used GP5 a lot. The reviews I had read from others switching to it claimed it was different than other systems in... Read more
Published 16 days ago by poopear
Solid product
This is better than Guitar Pro 5. There are more features, and it is more functional. Once you figure it out, it is easier to use than previous versions. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Kevin Oberg
DO NOT BUY, TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT
The program was installed on my brand new macbook pro and crashed 2 times trying to create a single measure composition. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Ron
Rocksmith
It was more of a game then guitar instruction. It had a lot of problems in the design. You could not select the level you wanted, it did that for you. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Woodrow W. Pope
Not Satisfied
Very unsatisfied with product and tech support. I purchased the software to record notes from my guitars via midi interface and have not been able to so as adveritsed by their how... Read more
Published 1 month ago by dmd14
didn't like it at all
Maybe this software is not compatible with windows 7, or maybe I didn't download it correctly. Don't laugh, but I tried for 9 hours to install this product, to no avail. Read more
Published 2 months ago by intermediate player
Pretty Awsome
I bought this to replace the free guitar editing software I have been using for the past year with hopes that it would be more accessible and I could effectively write for extended... Read more
Published 3 months ago by BriGUY
BEST...PROGRAM...EVER.
Seriously, this program is SO awesome. I can't say enough for how much it has helped me compose music as well as learn other songs. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Schism206
Guitar Pro 6 is the PRO
I'am making a review to this program and I was amazed what can do on this program. I would say this is the best program out there in the market. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Dantes_peak 19
Terrible!
I was looking for a program like this (for Mac) for long time, when I found it I was really exited, it is great software at the right price, however it did work great until the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Oscar Santoscoy
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