Guitar Pro 5 for Mac

Guitar Pro software is a complete tool that will take you from tuning the guitar, through learning the scales and as far as composing your own sheet music. The main interface is a daunting array of buttons on both the top and bottom of the window. On further inspection it becomes clear that the majority are involved with composing and each one refers to a very specific element. The digital guitar tuner and the metronome are extremely handy to have and save you the bother of going out to buy them or of searching through your cluttered room for either. Once prepared, get started on the individual note library that lets you visualize the fingering as well as listen to how they should sound. Getting the basics down is all well and good, but when it comes to composing or playing sheet music, Guitar Pro has it licked. Using the virtual keyboard or guitar, although tedious, will yield results when you want to compose something of your own, but for optimum results you can hook up your own MIDI device (such as a keyboard) and get cracking on tracks that are as simple or complex as you want. The extra dimension of a separate MIDI device lets you get ideas down much quicker while also giving you the ability to experiment with variations of a piece.

Guitar Pro new features:

• New RSE [Realistic Sound Engine] with real instrument sounds
• New Graphical Interface (skins available)
• 4 Display Modes: Page, Parchment, Vertical Screen, Horizontal Screen
• Fine Scrolling and Zoom from 30% to 200%
• Score display fully redesigned
• Automatic vertical positionning and spacing of score symbols to avoid collisions and blank spaces
• New Page Setup window
• Advanced Standard Notation
• Manuscript Configuration for each Track
• Multiple Selection used for editing and playing tools
• Playing of a selected part with Multiple Selection
• Move Tracks Up and Down
• Voice Support (lead and bass)
• Coda, Segno (simple and double), Fine + 14 possible jumps
• 8va, 8vb, 15ma and 15mb
• Triplet Feel affected to the bar (8th or 16th)
• Improved Alternate Endings
• Improved Grace Note and Dead Note
• Possibility to add Effects on Tied Notes
• Extended Bends and Tremolo Bar
• Full Support of Artificial Harmonics
• Heavy Accentuated Notes
• Tunings associated to an Instrument
• Diagrams displayed with the score and/or under title
• Improved Speed Trainer
• MusicXML Import/Export
• PowerTab Import
• TablEdit Import
• PDF Export
• Improved ASCII Import/Export
• BMP Export of a complete page
• Improved and Simplified WAVE Export

Minimum requirements:

• Processor: 500 MHz
• Memory: 256 MB
• Sound card
• Note that two download links are provided here - one for Mac OS X 10.3 and lower and one for Mac OS X 10.4 and greater.
• OS: Mac OS X