By: Jesse Mazzoccoli
Arobas Music has recently released the latest edition of their famous guitar tablature scoring software, Guitar Pro 6
The completely redesigned interface is one of the coolest new options, allowing you to view and access every tool from a single window. Its several viewing options range from screen or page mode, horizontal or vertical scrolling, monotrack, multitrack, and full screen mode, all with a zooming tool that decreases or increases the score from 25-800%, accommodating the spectrum from eagle eyes to blind as a bat and all points in between.
Guitar Pro 6 also comes with new editing tools that allow you to adjust the sizes of the measures in the score by hand, the application of 4-voice writing for a more accurate score, and a fully customizable style sheet that will customize your score based on classic or jazz styles, set up to 70 different parameters, and configure the score to a professional level.
The new RSE2 is a completely redesigned sound module that comes more than 100 sound banks, 50 effects pedals and amps, new integrated presets, and the ability to reconfigure the sound of each track. You can slow down or speed up your score, transpose it, or loop a particular section in speed trainer mode. Each track can be fully customized, allowing you to notated specific things such as the use of open tunings, capos, partial capos, or even 7-string guitars.
Another cool new feature is the Built-In Scale Generator Tool that actually teaches you scales and modes in new positions, or you can select an area or section of the score, and it will give you suggestions for which modes or scales to use.
Guitar Pro 6 is the complete workshop for any level of guitarist. It’s fully equipped with chord and scale libraries that might take several books to cover. It comes with a built-in tuner and metronome for your convenience, and virtual fretboard and keyboard diagrams. And, all of these tools are for fretted instruments that range from four to eight strings.
If you’re using this guitar tablature scoring software to write new scores or learn tunes, Guitar Pro 6 is just what you need. There are thousands of Guitar Pro files on the internet on many websites just waiting for you to sink your fingertips into, and sharing your files has never been easier.
The Guitar Pro format is an internet standard. The files can be exported or imported as a MIDI or ASCII file, and the software calculates each note so it can be play easily across the fretboard. Guitar Pro converts ASCII files into tabs in just one click, and vice versa.
The WAV Export option allows you to convert Guitar Pro files into audio files, then play or burn them to a CD. You can save your tablature scores as big pictures using the PNG Export option, for use on websites and for pedagogical purposes. And when you’re ready to distribute your scores, the standard PDF Export option is the way to go.
Guitar Pro 6 is the way to go for tablature editing software for any guitarist: from the beginner to the true Guitar Pro. I’m a guitar pro, and I use it. You should, too!
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