Guitar Pro is a software program available on Windows and Mac OS that allows all musicians to read, write and share their tablatures. The world leader in tablature editing, Guitar Pro has been downloaded over 15 million times worldwide since 1997. The software is compatible with many instruments such as guitar, drums, bass, piano, ukulele and many others! You can make tablatures for each instrument, scroll the music score, write your music and use many pedagogical tools such as a chord dictionary or a scale library. Transposition features are also available to easily transcribe your songs from one instrument to another. Whether you're a music teacher, a transcriber, a composer, a songwriter, a tablature book editor, a solo musician or in a band, Guitar Pro adapts to all your needs, and saves you precious time in making progress on the guitar or any other instrument. The Guitar Pro software suite is also available as a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android. You can thus use your tablature player or your tabbing application on all your devices: computer, tablet or smartphone.

Customize your score

Based on the classic or jazz styles, you can set 70 different parameters, configure the layout of your scores exactly as you wish, and get professional-level paper printouts.

Create multitrack scores

The multitrack edition allows you to create music scores with dozens of instruments: guitar, bass, drums, piano, voice, strings, brass and many more.

Chords

Ask any chord and Guitar Pro will display all possible positions on the fretboard. Draw a diagram by clicking on the chord grid and see all matching names.

Scales

View and listen many scales from the most common to the most exotic ones. The selected scale can be displayed on the fretboard or piano to help you compose your song, write a solo or melody line.

Lyrics

Easily enter the lyrics of your songs and arrange them at bottom of your vocal track. You can also add annotations to point riffs or solos out that might need some extra explanation for being played properly.

Polyphonic tuner

The polyphonic tuner allows you to tune your guitar by plugging it into your sound card or via a microphone. Just one brush-down stroke allows you to check the tuning of all six strings at once.

Virtual instruments

Virtual instruments let you view and enter musical notes from a graphical representation of your instrument. It can display notes of the current time, the notes of the current bar or of the selected scale. Intuitive and easy to use, it is an ideal tool for beginners or tablature notation fans.

Guitar Pro 8 What's new?

Add an audio file to your scores!

• Enjoy practicing - Play along your score with an audio file such as a song or a backing track. Relative tempo and detune mode are also compatible with the audio track.
• Edit easily - Synchronize your audio file with your score to transcribe songs easily.
• Share your knowledge - Insert an audio file containing a recording of your teaching instructions for your music students or your band members.

Improve your playing with new practice tools

• Focus/Unfocus track - Quickly amplify or attenuate the selected track to create a volume contrast with the other tracks.
• Work on your rhythm with the visual metronome - Play with the new visual metronome and countdown displayed over the LCD screen.
• Fix the tempo - Ignore tempo changes and automations in the score to easily learn new songs and riffs.
• Change the relative speed - Press +/- keys to speed up or slow down the relative speed or fixed tempo of your song during the playback.
• Lock the sound of the line-in - You can now lock your preset using the line-in to keep the same sound while changing tracks or even when you close a file.

Craft your sound with the virtual effect chain

• Adjust the sound precisely - Customize the duration, the offset and the relative velocity of each note of your score.
• Mix the drum set - Adjust the sound of the drum set and percussion tracks by setting the volume and pan of each element.
• Pre-listen to the soundbanks while playing your tabs - Mouse over the sound presets to get an audio preview while your score is playing.

Customize your tabs easily

• New design options - Move and adjust the placement of each beat. Align the bars easily with the automatic guideline.
• New Stylesheet options - Set the spacing of the chords diagram in the score header, the systems, the staff and the scale diagrams. Customize the font of the music symbols. Edit the font and text of numerous score indications like: palm muting, slap, pop, rasgueado, pick scrape and more.

Enjoy new notation options

• Scale diagrams - Edit and insert scale diagrams in your scores for guitars from 3 to 10 strings and up to 24 frets. Customize the diagrams by changing the shape, color and text of the dots representing the notes, and change the orientation of the diagram on your scores.
• Nested tuplets - You can now create tuplets inside tuplets to create complex rhythmic patterns.
• Piano fingering - Edit piano fingering and indicate sustain piano pedal.

Edit faster with the command palette

• Increase your productivity - The command palette is like shortcuts on steroids! Get quick and direct access to Guitar Pro's notation options to edit your scores and boost your productivity massively!
• Dozens of commands available - Select and easily add chords and directions to your score with the "Expression Text" tool. Quickly go through Guitar Pro main features in the "Action List" and use them to edit your scores.

Discover new mySongBook options

• Filters - Apply 3 filters on the mySongBook song list to sort out the scores by genres, instruments/levels and types.
• Audio tracks - Learn songs with our enhanced tab library. Enjoy audio tracks directly in your mySongBook tabs to learn easily and play along with your files.

And many more improvements...

• Optimized interface - The contrast and colors of the interface have been adjusted to offer you a better reading comfort.
• Apple Silicon optimization - Guitar Pro 8 benefits from an improved efficiency on Mac with Apple Silicon.
• Customize your exports - Choose the resolution of your PDF and PNG. Export your scores in PNG with transparent backgrounds.
• Enjoy quality soundbanks - The accuracy and dynamics of the soundbanks have been corrected and improved.
• Chords transposition - Chords are now transposed with their names and fingerings.
• Organize your files - To find the files you are working on more easily, pin them in the recent section of the homepage.
• Edit quarter tones on tremolo bar
• Show slash notation for drums and standard music notation
• Show cautionary accidentals
• Use decimal tempo
• Diatonic transposition
• Overall improved performance

Features

• Easily edit tablatures and scores for guitar, bass, ukulele, banjo, percussion, and many other instruments.
• Make faster progress with the many integrated tools: a metronome, chord and scale libraries, a tuner and virtual instruments.
• Adjust and gradually increase the tempo, loop sections, create drum and piano backing tracks to practice.
• Enjoy realistic audio rendering and preset sounds that faithfully reproduce the sound of your favorite artists.
• Guitar Pro allows you to add to your score all of the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments.

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