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eMedia GuitarPro 5.1 Win/Mac

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Guitar Pro 5.1 has all the tools you need to improve, compose and accompany yourself on the guitar. It's got a multitrack tablature editor for guitar, banjo, bass and other stringed instruments. Scale tools and a chord diagram editor lets you create the perfect score and the guitar composition you've always wanted.

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Product Details

Product Weight:	0.1 pounds
Package Length:	9.1 inches
Package Width:	7.4 inches
Package Height:	1.7 inches
Package Weight:	0.3 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 40 reviews

System Requirements

Platform:	Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista
Media:	CD-ROM
Item Quantity:	1

Features

RSE gives real-time playback of scores with realistic sound samples
Powerful and intuitive tablature editor for composing and transcribing
Enter notes using keyboard keys, mouse clicks on fretboard, or MIDI instrument
Can handle up to 256 tracks; supports 4- to 7-stringed instruments
Create lead sheets, scores, or lesson sheets for students

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

For use with classical guitar Dec 16, 2009 By Farrell Aultman
This review is written from the prospect of using Guitar Pro for Classical Guitar purposes. I have tried many notation programs for classical guitar. None are perfect. I've concluded that you need a high end music notation program for professional looking scores and another program for doing transcriptions for personal use or sharing.

On the high end, the choices are Finale, Sibelius, or Lilypond. I chose Finale for this purpose. You can do anything with it, but there is a steep price to pay. It is not intuitive at all, and it's expensive. The interface is a cluster of years of buildup. One wouldn't design a user interface like this from scratch. If I didn't already own Finale, I'd might go with Lilypond, or look more carefully into Musecore.

But I decided that I needed a notation program for simple transcriptions. Here are the ones that I tried in increasing order of my preference:
1) TablEdit - seen some decent scores for this one on the web. Deal breaker the UI is confusing. I'd just as well use Finale for everything.
2) Power Tab - interface OK, free, lots of features. Deal breaker most of the focus is on the tab representation, very little on standard notation.
3) Tux Guitar - nice interface, very similar to Guitar Pro, free. Deal breaker can't add fingerings. This program may eventually catch Guitar Pro.
4) Guitar Pro - nice interface, will do just about everything necessary easily. Can display/print standard notation only, tab notation, or both. Output is very good. ASCII import. Drawbacks for standard notation are that fingering are unconventional in location and labeling, bar can only be specified though text input, crescendo specified through volume control which is tied to a track(s).

In the end, the decision was an easy one. It just took a while to download all of the programs and try them out. Hopefully, I just saved you a little time.

Update 11-04-2010:
Since I wrote this review, I've switched from Finale to Lilypond. Even though I am a programmer, I was intimidated by Lilypond until I discovered using Frescobaldi (available on Linux only) as a front end. This system is just a pleasure to use and way easier than Finale. Lilypond doesn't do tab very well at the moment, so I'll likely continue using Guitar Pro when I need tab.

8 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Essential Program For Guitar & Bass Players Apr 23, 2008 By Micheal Hunt
For over 10 years now I have tabbed songs by ear, and frequently used many of the millions of tabs you can find online, however I would be doing them in whats called an ASCII (Ask ee) method, and i've been fine with that up until I recently discovered this AWESOME program.

ASCII for me now is a thing of the past now that I have discovered this program.

It's quick and easy to install. It works for both Windows and Mac systems.

So you open the program up, and you get a blank music sheet. Then all you simply have to do is click where you want to insert your note, and type it in, and use the arrows, and also use the many tools that come with it to create your songs.

It shows it in both tabliture, and music notation form whenever you insert your note into either of the two bars. So that is a great feature for those who read both tab and proper notation sheet music.

Once you have done your tab, and sorted out the tools for the notes. You can press a play button and it will play what you have tabbed out. So you can actually listen to it! A feature that will help improve so many players out there, and also help musicians to compose music.

And tho I sound like an infomercial, thats not all, you can also have multiple tracks. You can have as many guitar tracks as you want, bass tracks, percussion, even banjos, harmonicas, bagpipes... the (drum tab being tabbed out is not that of drum tabs tho)

All those tracks (separate paged tabs)will all play together at the same time when you hit play, or you can chose options to play them solo, or which one's you want to hear and don't with a simple S for solo, or M for mute option. Or neither to have them just play.

Also each track (tab page) is easily tunable. by default it is EADGBE but you can select from a heap of pre-set tunings, or just type in your own tuning. You can also have 4 to 7 strings for the tab notation, not just the standard 6.

There is also an extension for this program called Real Sound Engine (RSE) the G-pro is about 11 megs, but the RSE 300 or more meg add on is an option you might like. What it does is allows you to select what you wan't your instrument to sound like. So rather then it sound like a MIDI file during playback, you can have realistic guitars and effect sounds, bass, drums, etc... it does add so much life to your music. You can even then export your tab into wav form or midi, as well as some other audio forms.

The program even has great import options. You can import your old ASCII tabs straight into this program with the click of a button. It ignores all the |----| and just imports the numbers to the corresponding string.
You may just have to change the .txt extension to .tab if it fails for you. But I think it works both ways. If not, just open up word pad and save it as whatever.tab. And GP5 will open it no problems.

Not only that, it even allows you to import "Power Tabs" and various other forms of music.

I can't think of anything this program can not do already that I would wish for it to do. If someone had have said to me to give thoughts about what you would like to see in a tab editor, believe me, I could not have come up with an idea half as good as this program.

If you have not got this program, you don't know what you are missing out on.

Authors note: review applies to Guitar Pro version: 5.2

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Great! Jul 19, 2008 By Ben Hudson
this program is great and easy to use and good for either composing or for learning songs. almost any song you want is available tabbed out and free for download online. the CD i got didnt install right and threw errors, but you can download it using the product key that comes with the CD.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Stay away from the upgrade to GP6 Apr 23, 2010 By Holden Herbert "Holden Herbert"
Got to say something about Guitar Pro 6. First, I have used GP5 for a long time and love it. When I saw that GP6 was out, I was hot to get it. $30 for the upgrade sounds like a great deal.

But,I downloaded the new version and registered. They sent me new ID and Key numbers, but they did not work. I told them about it and they said it was a server problem and to try again. So I did, about 100 times and it still did not work. I have given up on getting GP6, and from what I've read about it, I haven't lost much.

The last part of this story is that they will not give me my money back. Now, they simply will not respond to my requests. They just ignore me. OK, there are times I may deserve being ignored, but not here. I never have been nasty, and all I asked is that they either help me get it running or give my money back. They have done neither.

So, Since the new version is not all that much an improvement over GP5, I'd say don't take the chance unless you want a boat load of agravation and have more money than you need. This won't be everyone's story, but it is mine

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

It's a beauty Oct 14, 2008 By Flyer X "fredtron"
I love it. When you get the right Tab arrangement for a tune you are working on, it's just great.

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