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\ Guitar Pro is first and foremost a program designed to edit
\ tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments
` from 4 to 8 strings. '
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: Its great ease of use and the success of its specific file :
| format have made it a program used by guitarists worldwide.
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| It now includes editing support for many other instruments
| like the piano or the drums, a realistic audio engine, and
| interactive tools to support every musician's practice.
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| Interface
| An optimal display of your score, together with all the
| tools you need for editing, sound-setting, and playing your
| instrument.
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| Choose your display options from the screen or page mode,
| horizontal or vertical scrolling, monotrack, multitrack,
| and full-screen mode, and 25-800% zooming.
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| Editing
| All of the tools you need to create and edit scores, right
| at hand. Quickly and easily capture the notes with the
| keyboard and its many shortcuts, with the mouse, or yet
| again with a MIDI instrument.
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| All of the symbols and effects
| With Guitar Pro, add all of the common musical symbols to
| your score, most notable those that are specific to the
| guitar and other fretted instruments.
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| Customize your score New
| Based on the classic or jazz styles, you can set 70
| different parameters, configure the outlook of your scores
| exactly as you wish, and get professional-level paper
| printouts.
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| Audio
| Guitar Pro is also a powerful score player, which
| facilitates composing or learning a piece.
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| The RSE: realistic audio playback
| The RSE (Realistic Sound Engine) technology includes the
| realistic studio recordings of instruments, as well as some
| effect modelisations that are the result of years of
| research.
| You'll get access to over a hundred soundbanks, and over
| fifty effects pedals and amps. We provide many presets for
| all styles, and you can also configure your own effect
| chains. You can apply a mastering to the final result, with
| a compressor-limiter, a reverb, and a 10-track equalizer.
| You can also listen to your scores in MIDI sound.
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| Optimized playback options
| During playback, the score automatically scrolls on and a
| highlighted cursor lets you know which note is being
| played. You can adjust tempo, and play all or part of a
| piece in loops. The Speed Trainer will then let you play
| any section of the score in loops with progressive
| accelerations. This is very useful to practice a solo or a
| complex guitar riff!
| All of the effects specific to the guitar (e.g., bend,
| slide, ghost notes, etc.) are rendered into the playback,
| as well as the various possible playing styles -
| pickstroking, fingerpicking or slapping, for instance.
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| Tools
| Guitar Pro is a true workshop for guitarists: chord and
| scale libraries, tuner, metronom, virtual fretboard and
| keyboard.
| All of those tools work with fretted instruments from 4 to
| 8 strings.
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| Diagram generator
| Request any chord in any tuning, and Guitar pro will
| display all possible finger positions for you. Draw a
| diagram by clicking on the grid, and Guitar Pro will
| suggest all possible names for that chord.
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| Scale engine
| The scale engine presents a large directory of scales, from
| the most common to the most exotic, for you to look at and
| listen to. Whichever scale you select can be shown on the
| fretboard or keyboard to work as support for you to write
| your score. The search function also allows you to quickly
| find out what scale is being used in all or part of the
| score.
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| MIDI and digital tuners
| The digital tuner allows you to tune your guitar by
| plugging it into the soundcard, or via a microphone. You
| can also simply tune your guitar by ear, string by string,
| with the MIDI tuner.
| Those work for all possible tunings.
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| Virtual fretboard and keyboard
| The virtual fretboard and keyboard are here to help you see
| the notes from the score, or capture them into it. They can
| show you the notes of the current beat, as well as the
| notes of the next beat, of the whole bar or yet again of
| the scale you have selected. Those are indispensable tools
| if you are beginning or is you wish to capture notes with
| the mouse.
| Share
| Since the Guitar Pro format has become a true standard on
| the Internet, the software will let you enjoy thousands of
| scores that are already available over many websites (files
| in *.gp3, *.gp4, *.gp5 and *.gpx formats)
