Arobas Music Guitar Pro 8 Music Notation Software (Student/Teacher, Download)
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Arobas Music Guitar Pro 8 Music Notation Software (Student/Teacher, Download) Overview
Guitarist and bass players in search of a song writing tool will be impressed with the Arobas Guitar Pro 8, a software application that allows you to compose and read music scores using the musical notation of your favorite instruments. This latest version includes new features like audio tracks, allowing you to add an audio track to your score to have as a full audio song reference to help you transcribe, or add a simple voice track to make your score more real. Score updates include nested tuplets, a new command palette, design mode improvement, new transpose tools, focus mode, and many other small feature improvements. Guitar Pro 8 is compatible with Windows and macOS computers.
What’s New in Guitar Pro 8
Add audio files to your scores
- Enjoy Practicing: Play along with 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
- Virtual Effects Chain: Easily create your own effects chain and mastering with the new pedalboard.
- 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.
- Prelisten 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
- 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.
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.
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.
Additional 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
General Features
Read Music Scores and Tabs
Guitar Pro is a powerful score player really helpful to learn how to play, improve your technique, reproduce your favorite songs, or accompany yourself.
- Write: Guitar Pro allows you to compose and read music scores using the musical notation of your favorite instrument. Display the tablature notation to learn guitar riffs, or use the standard notation to read music score for piano, drums, brass, and strings. Rediscover also the slash notation to sight-read easily rhythmic patterns from chord charts.
- Play: Hit play and the tab automatically scrolls on. A highlighted cursor lets you know which note is being played, and the sound engine reproduces all of the effects specific to the guitar: pick-stroking and fingerpicking, bend, slide and ghost notes. You can also adjust the tempo or use the speed trainer to loop a section of the score while increasing the BPM (beats per minute).
- Mix: Drive your Guitar Pro files with the instrument’s global view available below the sheet music. It allows you to have a synthetic view of the instrument tracks and thus to easily move around it. You can define various sections in a score, such as intro, verse, or chorus. Audio mixing features are included in this overview. You can mute one or several tracks and choose to show or hide them. Simply solo/mute the tracks you want as if you were playing along with your band.
Music Score Edition
Express your talent by creating your own scores in a matter of minutes. You can edit the notes directly on the standard score or on the tablature. All the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments are available. The notes capture can be made quickly with the numerical pad, the mouse, or even a MIDI instrument.
- 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.
- Notation Elements: Guitar Pro allows you to add to your score all of the usual musical symbols pertaining to the guitar and to other stringed instruments.
- Bar and Sheet Music Organization: Key, key signature, and rhythm renditions for your sheet music; Bar repetition, repeat bar, da coda, da segno, return to the line and section name (verse, chorus, bridge) for your bars.
- Music Notation: Note value (from whole note to 64th notes), triplets, tuplets, rest, dynamic, accents, tied note, accidental, fingering for left and right hand, up and down pick strokes, barre chords, stems, and ligatures. You can also add comments to the score, lyrics, and chord diagrams.
- Playing Effects: Let ring, palm mute, natural and artificial harmonics, bends, tremolo bar, vibratos, slides, hammer on, pull-off, tapping, slapping, hoping, brushes, rasguedo, grace note, trill, tremolos, crescendo/decrescendo, and fade-in / fade-out
Tools for Composing Music
- Chords—Ask any chord and Guitar Pro will display all 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 downstroke 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.
Print and Share Your Files
- GPX File Guitar Pro Import/Export—Import files with .gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, and .gpx extensions. Export them with Guitar Pro 8 in .gp5, .gp and .gpx formats.
- PTB File PowerTab/TablEdit Import—Guitar Pro allows you to import files from others tablature editor software.
- MIDI File Import/Export—Import and export your files in MIDI format for further processing in a sequencer.
- ASCII File Import/Export—Import and export your files in ASCII. The ASCII format, or simple text file, was the first format used for the sharing of tablatures.
- MusicXML File Import/Export—MusicXML is a digital sheet music interchange and distribution format used by a wide range of music notation software.
- MP3, WAV, FLAC, OGG, and AIFF Audio File Export—You can convert a Guitar Pro file into an audio file for you to create your own backing tracks.
- PDF File Export—The PDF format is a standard when you wish to print or share your music scores with musicians.
- PNG File Export—Exporting into PNG (image) lets you save your tablatures as pictures. Those pictures can for instance be integrated into a webpage for wider diffusion.
- Lock/Unlock a file—It is possible to lock your files with a password in order to protect and share them. You can block a file from being opened or modified.