Guitar Pro 8
Guitar Pro is a multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo and bass. Besides writing scores, Guitar Pro is a useful resource for guitarists from beginner to experienced levels to progress , compose , or simply accompany themselves.

Scores for Everyone

Download the Tablature Editor and Player, a useful tool for easily crafting your own scores and accompaniments, perfect for learning and practice sessions. It's suitable for instruments ranging from three to ten strings with up to 24 frets. Load and play audio files with adjustable tempo and pitch for transcribing songs or as practice or backing tracks. It features a virtual pedalboard with an array of integrated effects.
The Focus / Unfocus function alters the volume of the currently selected track by a defined amount, creating a volume contrast with other tracks. A visual metronome provides a visual tempo indicator. Precise adjustments can be made through individually adjustable relative values for length, position, and velocity per note. A simple mixer for drum sets and pre-listening function for sound banks are also included.
The score layout can be edited with many design options available. Notations can be in tablature, standard, or slash form. Composition tools such as chord and scale display are at your disposal. Bars and layouts can be set up with key, rhythm playback, bar repeats, repeat signs, coda, segno, repeat transitions and section names (verse, chorus, bridge.) and more. Note durations, triplets, x-tols, rests, dynamic signs, accents, tied notes, left and right hand fingerings, upstrokes and downstrokes can all be notated.

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A well-designed Interface 

The numerous toolbars available allow you to quickly access the most important features.

With multitrack/monotrack display, horizontal or vertical scrolling, the screen display adjusts to your preferences and score types.

Tablatures 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.

Every Symbols and Effects

Guitar Pro allows you to use numerous musical symbols in your scores, and especially guitar-specific ones.

Dynamic, Grace note, Staccato, Fade In, Left and Right Hand Fingering, Strocke, Pickstroke, Ghost Note, Accentuated Note, Dead note, Let Ring, Harmonics, Tapping, Slapping, Hammer On / Pull Off, bend, Tremolo Bar, Slides, Vibrato, Wide Vibrato, Trill, Tremolo Picking, Palm Mute, Text, Lyrics, Chords...

Professional Quality Paper Printings

Independant from the screen display, the paper printing can be monotrack or multitrack. This way you can print several views of the same score, perfect for a band.

Technical Specifications
  
Guitar Pro  General

• Tablature editor for 4, 5, 6 and 7 strings
• Possible edition and printing in standard notation
• Multitrack score (256 tracks for instruments and percussion)
• Drum notation

Guitar Pro Interface

• Full-screen entering
• Vertical or horizontal scrolling of the score
• Multitrack display
• Quick and intuitive interface (buttons, hints, shortcuts, etc.)
• 100% configurable display of the score (size, fonts, colors, etc.)
• Automatic display of the rhythm and bar break/length regarding note durations
• Proportional or non-proportional display of the rhythm (selection of the coefficient)

Guitar Pro Editing

• Note duration management
• Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, grace notes, ghost notes, harmonics, etc.)
• Repeat open, repeat close and alternate endings
• Support for triplets (3 or 4 notes), quintuplets, etc.
• Time signature management
• Assistant window for percussion sounds
• Lyrics support
• MIDI Input

Printing

• Professional-quality printing of the score
• Multitrack printing of the tablature or tablature & standard notation
• 100% configurable printing of the score (size, fonts, proportions, area, elements, etc.)
• Print preview

Guitar Pro Sound

• Playback of the score (via MIDI interface), with guitar effects (bend, etc.)
• Tunings library with the possibility to tune each string independently
• Selection of the tempo
• Selection of the instrument, volume, pan, chorus and reverb for each track
• 12 strings guitar simulation
• Triplet feel playback
• Possibility to insert mix table change events (tempo, volume, instrument, etc.)
• Mix table in real-time

Import/Export

• Multitrack MIDI importation with quantization (formats 0/1)
• Optimized fingering for the MIDI importation
• MIDI exportation of selected tracks
• Recognition of the rhythm for the ASCII importation (or imposed rhythm)
• ASCII Import & Export
• WAVE Export
• BMP Export (Bitmap Image)

Guitar Pro Various Features

• Transposition
• Digital Guitar Tuner
• FretBoard
• KeyBoard
• Scales Tool
• Speed Trainer assistant (play a part of the score in a loop increasingly faster)
• Automatic arranging of bar lengths
• Automatic fingering assistant

Guitar Pro Formats

• gtp, gp3, gp4, gp5  // MIDI, ASCII // WAVE // BMP // MusicXML

• New interface
  The interface gets more modern still, and more user-friendly. A toolbar contains the main functionalities of the software and an inspector simplifies choosing the song and tracks settings.
• Performance and ease of use
  Software startup and file loading have been enhanced. Scrolling and zooming are now both smoother. The install/update process is also improved.
• High resolution
  The software is compatible with high resolution screens (Retina and HD) and touch screens.
• Quality of the score's design
  The score-display engine has been entirely rewritten for even more realistic, professional sheet music.
• New musical notation elements
  Notation now includes golpe, pick scrape, and dead slap. The writing of bends in standard notation has been enhanced, and we have improved the management of conflicts between the various elements of the score.
• Tablature for all tracks
  In addition to fretted instruments like guitars, standard notation gets automatically transposed into tablature — this on all tracks, including piano, voice or drums.
• Connect your guitar to Guitar Pro
  Plug your guitar into an external sound card connected to Guitar Pro and apply to it the effects exactly as they have been modeled for any track in a given file.
• Polyphonic tuner
  Simply brush down the six strings together to check their tuning in a single stroke.
• New instrument banks
  Many sounds have been added, including the dobro, flamenco, manouche, and 7-string nylon guitars, the electric sitar, fretless bass, jazz double bass, accordions, mellotron, harmonicas, bagpipe, new synthesizers, and drum machines.
• Stereo sounds
  You can choose between mono and stereo for all acoustic instruments, as well as add automatic spacialization to drumkits.
• Simplified audio adjustments
  Choose and modify your sound from over 1000 presets combining a soundbank and an effects chain.
• Mixing MIDI/RSE
  Guitar Pro 8 makes it possible, within any given single file, to mix tracks that use MIDI tones with others that use RSE tones.
• Virtual fretboard and keyboard
  The virtual-instrument (guitar, bass, banjo, and piano) windows are resizable.
• Lock your files
  You may lock your file to prevent any accidental modification. You may also add a password to it, to keep it from being opened or edited.
• New audio-export formats
  MP3, FLAC and Ogg formats are available when exporting RSE (Realistic Sound Engine) tracks. It is also possible to export all tracks separately in a single operation.
• MIDI and MusicXML formats
  Imports and exports in MIDI and MusicXML formats have been improved for better compatibility between Guitar Pro and other musical software programs.

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