Guitar Pro?

[RickBlacker]

Was wondering if anyone here uses Guitar Pro? Is it a good app to have? Looks kind of good. Has lots of nice utilities in it.

Thanks for any feedback!

[Bryan Connolly]

Just bought it a couple weeks ago. It's a great program and if I could I'd spend all day messing around with it.

[equator]

I’ve been using Power Tab Editor 1.7 for a long time, and a couple of weeks ago I got Guitar Pro v5.2.

IMO. Guitar Pro is a better app than Power Tab.
The Realistic Sound Engine (RSE) has better sounds, effects, bass packs, drum packs, guitar packs.

One cool thing about Guitar Pro is that it lets you open even Power Tab files.
I recommend it. :cool:

[Hjorvard]

I've had guitar pro for years. You can tab out your own music and hear it, as well as compose songs using different instruments. You can import midis and covert them to tab or visa versa, you can also covert powertab. What's more is that there is everything from chord and scale reference to a metronome, which has been a personal god send for me. In my mind probably one of the best tab programs out there.

[RickBlacker]

Does it know how to analyze an existing song and tab it out? So say I have a riff of myself that I record, can it import it in and it will tab it out?

[CSchlegel]

First, Guitar Pro is an excellent application.

In fact, it is what we use here at GT for creating some of our lesson notation images. It has a great MIDI engine and multiple input/output options that make it very versatile.

One of the best things a learning guitarist can do with it is to use it to learn to read standard music notation. You can enter tab and rhythms and press the play button, you can import PowerTab & MIDI files and reverse engineer everything in order to hear and see at how this translates to standard notation.

Does it know how to analyze an existing song and tab it out? So say I have a riff of myself that I record, can it import it in and it will tab it out?

No. That is called converting digital audio (via .WAV, .MP3, .ACC, etc. format) to MIDI. You can search the web for applications that convert digital audio to MIDI. They are getting better, but they are still not 100% percent accurate. That is a very difficult thing for a computer app to do. Software engineers have been trying to crack that nut for quite a while now! :)

Some of the apps out there work better than others on certain timbres, too. For example some work well on piano, but not guitar, and others visa versa. None of them work too well on overdriven, distorted guitar timbres. And I've yet to see one that can effectively handle multiple timbre threads in one audio stream. Of course, I haven't searched lately and there may be something new out there I've yet to see and try.

I tried a free version of AmazingMIDI to try and convert some of Art Tatum's solo piano recordings to MIDI. It's worked well up to a point. Have a look at this search for clues. Good luck!

http://www.google.com/search?q=convert+WAV+to+MIDI

[Bryan Connolly]

Does it know how to analyze an existing song and tab it out? So say I have a riff of myself that I record, can it import it in and it will tab it out?

It doesn't, like CSchlegel already brought out, but the benefit to that is when you go to notate out your riffs it makes you pay really close attention to what you're playing and, in my estimation, makes you a more thoughtful player. Before GuitarPro I never really thought about the arrangement of quarter notes and eighth notes and sixteenth notes in my playing but it's really opened up some possibilities for me.