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Guitar Pro for Mac

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Guitar Pro for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Guitar Pro 8.0.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Mac OS X 10.10 or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Arobas Music / External Link

  • Filename

    guitar-pro-8-setup.pkg

Guitar Pro for Mac is a sheet music/tablature editor for 4- to 8-string instruments: guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele. This is an ergonomic, comprehensive tool for beginning to advanced musicians who wish to make progress, compose, or simply play along on their guitar. The tool is now the standard reference in the world of tab-editing software.

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Its simple and ergonomic design have popularized the Guitar Pro file-format, thus making it possible to access hundreds of thousands of tabs on the Internet. The software allows to edit, listen to, print, import, and export scores into several formats: .gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gpx (proprietary formats), MIDI, ASCII, WAV, PNG, PDF.

As a score player it offers a series of integrated tools to support you in learning to play songs whether you can read music or not: adjusting tempo, playing in loop, chord and scale dictionaries, tuner, metronome, independent volume-tuning for each track, virtual keyboard and guitar fretboard. It also offers the following options for the display of scores: full screen, horizontal/vertical scrolling, single-track/multi-track view, and zoom. The software is furthermore fitted with a Realistic Sound Engine (RSE) including more than a hundred instruments (electric and acoustic guitars, basses, keyboards, brass, winds, and percussions), a soundboard to entirely customize the sounds of every track, and sixty types of effects modeling (amps, effects, master).

Features and Highlights

Tablature and score reader
Guitar Pro for macOS offers many reading features: 3 types of notation (standard/tablature/slash), zoom and virtual fretboard/keyboard to visualize the exact positioning of your fingers on them.

Edit your compositions
Create your own professional scores for one or several instruments and capture your notes quickly with the numerical pad, the mouse, or even a MIDI instrument.

Mix your sounds
The sound engine offers more than 100 soundbanks, effects and amps recorded in studio. Select your sounds among built-in sounds or create your own presets.

Improve your technique
Enjoy a series of tools to optimize your practice sessions: tempo, looper, metronome, chord and scale library, guitar and piano fretboard. You can also edit or buy full scores files and then be able to solo or mute individual parts.

Thousand of tabs online
The app file format is the most widespread when it comes to look for tabs online. Download songs online or access to 2000 high quality full instruments tabs made by team on mySongBook.

Share your music
Print your tabs, read it on your GuitarPro app for smartphone or tablet, send it by email or save it on your hard drive at any time. It is never been easier to share your music with your friends or your students.

Note: The trial version of Guitar Pro 6 is not limited in time, but it is limited in terms of functionalities, relative to the full version: File import/export disabled. You also cannot save a file.

Also Available: Download Guitar Pro for Windows

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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

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