Guitar Pro Midi Editing Software for Guitarists.
2 ratings since posting on Monday, January 3, 2005
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Look for the links for music and excercises on the download page from www.guitar-pro.com . This is the single greatest tool for an aspiring guitarist to woodshed. The speed training feature alone makes this program worthwhile. For experienced musicians, it is a simple and intuitive transcribing and MIDI editing tool. The best I've seen in almost thirty years of six string bliss. - Pi , posted 01/16/07 |
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I have a great tip for those times when you are composing on the guitar and want to turn it into midi (short of having a hexpickup - midi converter), so you can make any keyboard play like you think and compose on your guitar or for when you just want to expand your music chops on the guitar. Check out www.guitar-pro.com They make a program that is a multi-track midi editor like Finale, but from the ground up was made for guitarists, not as an afterthought to a keyboard-based program. Not only can you write parts as tab or musical notation and enter it from a graphical guitar fretboard user interface, but you can tune the guitar UI to any tuning and the tab (as well as the chords in the extensive built-in chord/scale dictionary) change to match that tuning! So if you are the reincarnation of Michael Hedges (God rest his soul), you can just play and compose directly in whatever tuning you choose per instrument. There's even ways to notate all those bends and pull-offs etc. that you can do on a guitar. In fact it's more than just an midi editor, there's many tools to further help the guitarist. Got midi? You can import any midi file and it converts into tab (of course you can change the tuning at that point, and it transposes the tab). Great for when you want to transcribe a part for another instrument into a guitar part (want guitar tab for Bach's Tocotta and Fugue in D minor organ classic?). The graphical fretboard user interface lights up each note/chord on the fretboard during play back (or when you are pointed to that note/chord) so you can easily learn the song that you imported from a midi file, if the tab that's created isn't enough. Stuck on a solo? Pick a section of the song, and based on the notes/chords in that section, will come up with a list of scales (or you can pick one from the scale library including exotics like "Hindu scale in d#") and it will superimpose that scale on the fretboard UI. Great for if you have the chords on one track and are creating a solo track on another or are just playing along on a real guitar and wish to learn a new scale or chords. I'm not the kind of person who "relies on charts" and am more of an improvisational guitarist, but having the scale dictionary and the chord dictionary (especially when I'm playing in some random tuning) that I can just dial up creates such wonderfully visual jumping off points for improvisation and finding new patterns that might not be in your "finger memory". The newest version has midi-in so that what you are composing on your guitar plays on your keyboard (haven't tried it yet). Still, it's so awesome. I love using it to create midi files that I then import into FL Studio. I'm just scratching the surface. Check it out. I believe the company is headquartered in France, and I haven't seen it in any music store in the Bay Area.... but that fact really amazes me because it's so singularly a cool program. Every guitarist that I've shown it to is blown away and would like it whether or not they want to export the midi files or just use it to jam with. It not only exports midi, prints out / exports standard notation and guitart tab, but it even ascii guitar tab (like on OLGA). I could go on and on raving about it. - Andreas , posted 01/04/05 |
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