Why I buy this one ?
- Multitrack/monotrack display, with horizontal or vertical scrolling -- screen display adjusts to your preferences and score types
- Chord Diagram Editor allows you to add chord diagrams to your score
- Ask for any chord in any tuning and Guitar Pro will show you every diagram possible
- View and listen to a large number of scales, from the most common to the most exotic

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What our customer's say!

"Great, for the most part.", On the whole, it's great. You can have lots of different tracks with lots of different instruments, and unlike powertab you can add drums to it.

The only problems are:
1. the "Realistic Sound Engine." As the name implies, it's supposed to make the instruments sound like real ones when you play back the tab you've made. The drums sound pretty good, the clean guitars and bass sound ok, but the distorted/overdriven electric guitars sound like total crap, especially with tremelo picking. Fortunately, the "Realistic Sound Engine" can be turned off.
2. Importing tabs. On the plus side, you can import tabs from Powertab and some other software instead of having to retype them into Guitar Pro, but it's a bit glitchy and the different tracks will occasionally end up out of synch.

It's also just the slightest bit complicated, but with time most non-retards should be able to figure it out.

bottom line: i recommend it, unless one of the above caveats is a deal breaker for you. You can download an evaluation version (without the realistic sound engine) from their website. Do that. if you like it, buy it.

"Great product, but I have one question...", This product is great. I use it for guitar instruction. The mix board feature allows you to isolate individual tracks for close inspection. I have one question, though, which may be addressed in the manual which, as noted by others, is not included. Does anyone know if you can have the written tabs brought up for each individual track on a song. I'm attempting to learn a song with Guitar Pro, but the sheet music that appears on screen is for the rhythmn only, not for the lead guitar, which I'm trying to learn. Thanks

Otherwise, great product.

"A lot of tools to play with", I bought it mostly to slowdown and pick apart some hard/fast tab. Man oh man, this thing does so much more. I've since started going through all my little skits of original songs and putting them on this program, adding multiple tracks and what-not along the way. It's also pretty easy to write music while using the program. Measures turn red if you're time is off, giving you a heads up. I've enjoyed toying with using dotted quarter notes, fermatas, and codas, though it isn't a necessity to do such (just easier to write.) RSE is a must. Sounds much better and you can tweek the "equilizer" and amp settings. There are even dirty, clean, distorted, overdriven sounds for STRAT and LES PAUL. Most effects such as string bends, string slides, and vibratos can be manipulated to get the sound your looking for (especially string bends; the possibilities there are AMAZING!!) A manual would be better than having to navigate through the help index.

Pros:
RSE
numerous tools and effects
user friendly
MUSICIAN friendly

Cons:
No manual so you have to search through Help, though that isn't TOO bad.
Probably frustrating for guitarist who want to write but don't read music.

"Using Guitar Pro 5.0", Guitar Pro is great, Yes I agree it needs a manual to do it justic but the capability of the software gives you a wide range of abilities that are on the mark. My problem is finding music that has been converted to the GP5 format. I found a site that was selling a learning method that has of all things a stack of gp3, gp4 format music that I can run on the gp5 format and save as gp5. It is great. Once you remove alot of the distoration guitars and use the clear sounds it gives you great music to learn from. You can slow down and step through the notes or the kord positons. Tabs are wonderful and easy to watch. If you have Guitar Pro give it another try. If you are looking for a great package then here it is. What we need to do is pool our talent in using the sofware and write a user's manual for the software. It has lots of hidden features that make it worth the effort. Remember music is to enjoy and is not something easy to learn. It takes work and lots of practice. This product gives you the edge to learn and concentrate on the music.

"Not bad, there is a better option though...", Power Tab software is pretty much the same thing and if you're looking for something better than Power Tab, then this isn't it either. It plays the tab back and it sounds a little better than Power Tab but that ain't worth dropping sixty dollas on alone. Power Tab ... free and just as good.