Guitar Pro for Mac

What's new in this version:

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 confort

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