Guitar Pro for Mac is a sheet music/tablature editor for 4- to 8-string instruments: guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele. This is an ergonomic, comprehensive tool for beginning to advanced musicians who wish to make progress, compose, or simply play along on their guitar. The tool is now the standard reference in the world of tab-editing software. Its simple and ergonomic design have popularized the Guitar Pro file-format, thus making it possible to access hundreds of thousands of tabs on the Internet. The software allows to edit, listen to, print, import, and export scores into several formats: .gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gpx (proprietary formats), MIDI, ASCII, WAV, PNG, PDF.
As a score player it offers a series of integrated tools to support you in learning to play songs whether you can read music or not: adjusting tempo, playing in loop, chord and scale dictionaries, tuner, metronome, independent volume-tuning for each track, virtual keyboard and guitar fretboard. It also offers the following options for the display of scores: full screen, horizontal/vertical scrolling, single-track/multi-track view, and zoom. The software is furthermore fitted with a Realistic Sound Engine (RSE) including more than a hundred instruments (electric and acoustic guitars, basses, keyboards, brass, winds, and percussions), a soundboard to entirely customize the sounds of every track, and sixty types of effects modeling (amps, effects, master).
Features and Highlights
Tablature and score reader
Guitar Pro offers many reading features: 3 types of notation (standard/tablature/slash), zoom and virtual fretboard/keyboard to visualize the exact positioning of your fingers on them.
Edit your compositions
Create your own professional scores for one or several instruments and capture your notes quickly with the numerical pad, the mouse, or even a MIDI instrument.
Mix your sounds
The sound engine offers more than 100 soundbanks, effects and amps recorded in studio. Select your sounds among built-in sounds or create your own presets.
Improve your technique
Enjoy a series of tools to optimize your practice sessions: tempo, looper, metronome, chord and scale library, guitar and piano fretboard. You can also edit or buy full scores files and then be able to solo or mute individual parts.
Thousand of tabs online
The app file format is the most widespread when it comes to look for tabs online. Download songs online or access to 2000 high quality full instruments tabs made by team on mySongBook.
Share your music
Print your tabs, read it on your GuitarPro app for smartphone or tablet, send it by email or save it on your hard drive at any time. It is never been easier to share your music with your friends or your students.
Note: The trial version of Guitar Pro 6 is not limited in time, but it is limited in terms of functionalities, relative to the full version: File import/export disabled. You also cannot save a file.
Also Available: Download Guitar Pro for Windows