Guitar Pro

The Guitar Pro application allows all guitarists to enjoy viewing, playing, as well as writing tablature easily, right from their mobile device. This mobile version of the famous Guitar Pro tab-editing program is the ideal companion for you to practice your favorite songs and share them at any time, anywhere!

Editing sheet music
has never been easier

Guitar Pro allows you to edit your music scores and tablature for guitar, bass, and ukulele, as well as create backing tracks for drums or piano. This is a most thorough yet user-friendly tool for musicians who wish to get better, compose, or simply play along. Download our free trial and start editing your own music.

‎The Guitar Pro application allows all musicians to view and play sheet music and tablature created with the famous Guitar Pro tab-editing program for Windows and Mac. This mobile version is the ideal companion for you to practice your favorite songs and share them any time, anywhere! Guitar Pro is a tablature editor software for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments. Equipped with a powerful audio engine, it makes writing music easier, and it constitutes an essential tool. Guitar Pro is a tablature editor software for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments. Equipped with a powerful audio engine, it makes writing music easier, and it constitutes an essential tool for guitarists. What's new in Guitar Pro 7.5 This new version offers a new interface, optimized performances, as well as many new features. Our goal is to exceed our users'expectations by releasing a more evolved product that remains simple to use and continues to push Guitar Pro forward in exciting new ways. Discover the brand new Guitar Pro 7.5 features here.

Guitar Pro 7.5,
a major step forward

Guitar Pro Review

This new version is free for Guitar Pro 7 users. Opening tool windows by clicking on the score, file explorer, tablature editing for 9- and 10- strings guitars, mySongBook integration, batch conversion tool, MIDI import improvement, better orchestral soundbanks, enhanced drums view – discover the many new features of this update.

The library of music scores
created by Guitar Pro

mySongBook brings you over 2,000 Guitar Pro transcriptions of your favorite songs available directly in the Guitar Pro software. You can shop for music scores by the unit or with our full access subscription that allows you to collect files from the entire library.

Our commitments

The Guitar Pro team is committed to assisting you.

Guitar Pro is a multitrack editor of guitar and basstablature and musical scores, possessing a built-in MIDI-editor, a plotter of chords, a player, a metronome and other tools for musicians. It has versions for Windows and Mac OS X (Intel processors only) and is written by the French company Arobas Music.

History[edit]

There have been five popular public major releases of the software: versions 3–7. Guitar Pro was initially designed as a tablature editor, but has since evolved into a full-fledged score writer including support for many musical instruments other than guitar.

Until it reached version 4, the software was only available for Microsoft Windows. Later, Guitar Pro 5 (released November 2005) undertook a year-long porting effort and Guitar Pro 5 for the Mac OS X was released in July 2006. On April 5, 2010, Guitar Pro 6, a completely redesigned version, was released. This version also supports Linux, with 32-bit Ubuntu being the officially supported distribution.

On February 6, 2011, the first ever portable release of Guitar Pro (version 6) was made available on the App Store for support with the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad running iOS 3.0 or later. An Android version was released on December 17, 2014.

In 2011, a version was made to work with the Fretlight guitar called Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready. The tablature notes being played in Guitar Pro 6 Fretlight Ready show up on the Fretlight guitar's LEDs which are encased within the guitar's fretboard to teach you the song.

In April 2017, Guitar Pro 7 was officially released with new features and dropped Linux support.

Background[edit]

The software makes use of multiple instrument tracks which follow standard staff notation, but also shows the notes on tablature notation.^[1] It gives the musician visual access to keys (banjos, drumkits, etc.) for the song to be composed, and allows live previews of the notes to be played at a specified tempo. It allows for certain tracks to be muted and provides dynamic control over the volume, phasing and other aspects of each track. Included in version 4 onwards is a virtual keyboard that allows pianists to add their part to a composition.

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Guitar Pro outputs sound by means of a library and/or, as of version 5, the 'Realistic Sound Engine' (RSE) which uses high quality recorded samples for a more realistic playback.^[2] By using its live preview feature musicians may play along with the song, following the tablature played in real time.

Files composed using Guitar Pro are recorded in the GP, GPX, GP5, GP4 and GP3 format, corresponding to versions 7, 6, 5, 4, and 3 of the software. These file formats lack forward compatibility, and opening them in an older version of Guitar Pro prompts the user to upgrade their software to the respective version.These tab files are available free on several websites, including songs of both underground and popular bands. However, copyright issues raised by the Music Publishers Association (MPA) pressured some of these sites to close.^[3]

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References[edit]

1. ^Matthies, Aaron (2020-04-05). 'Guitar Pro 7 Review (Updated 2020)'. Guitar Gear Finder. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
2. ^Mendelson, James (16 February 2007). 'Guitar Pro 5'. PC Magazine. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
3. ^Youngs, Ian (12 December 2005). 'Song sites face legal crackdown'. BBC News. Retrieved 5 January 2016.

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