Arobas Music Guitar Pro Software (Mac, Windows and Linux)

Manufacturer's Description for Arobas Music Guitar Pro Software (Mac, Windows and Linux)

Guitar Pro is first and foremost a software designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings. Its great ease of use and the success of its specific file format have made it a software used by guitarists worldwide. 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.

Guitar Pro 6 is a multitrack tablature editor for guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele and other instruments in your band. In addition to writing scores, Guitar Pro 6 is a complete tool for beginning and accomplished guitarists alike to improve their skills, compose or simply accompany themselves.

Features

- Improved Real Sound Engine (RSE)
- Realistic playback of your scores, with genuine sounds
- Easy-to-use User Interface including a full screen mode
- Piano Grand Staff
- Added notation symbols including rhythm, slash, simile marks, multi-measure rest
- Parametric equalization on each track
- Over 50 pedal effects and over 100 instruments
- Configurable tones
- Tap tempo
- Jazz fonts
- Anacrusis

Import, Export and Share

Enjoy the tens of thousands of tablatures available on the Internet in Guitar Pro format. The WAVE Export allows you to convert a Guitar Pro file into an audio file to burn it onto an audio CD. The PNG Export (image) allows you to save your tablatures as a bitmap image. This image can be integrated into a web page to share!

A Complete Mixing Table

Guitar Pro 6 features the newest in playback technology including the R.S.E. (Realistic Sound Engine), which gives you real-time playback of your scores using realistic sounds sampled from high quality guitars and real-time effects such as overdrive, distortion, wah-wah, chorus, delay and more.

For computer accompaniment, you can set audio parameters for the instrument, volume, chorus, reverb, and mute one (or several) tracks. Guitar Pro 6 offers audio support for all instruments, from stringed instruments to drums, piano, etc. You can also create an entirely configurable effect chain for each instrument, choosing from over 50 amps and effect units.

Included Programs

- Digital or MIDI tuner
- Speed Trainer
- Fretboard and the Keyboard
- Chord Diagram Generator
- Scales Tool
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System Requirements

Guitar Pro 6 for Windows or Linux
Minimal Requirements (MIDI Playback)
Windows(R) XP / Vista / Win 7, or Ubuntu 9.10 or higher (officially supported distribution)

Administrator's rights for installation, Internet connection for activation*

Intel Pentium 4 type processor

1 GB RAM

Sound card - DVD-ROM drive

256 MB free HD space

RSE Requirements (Realistic Sound Engine)
Windows(R) XP/Vista/Win7, or Ubuntu 9.10 or higher (officially supported distribution)

Administrator's rights for installation, Internet connection for activation*

1.8 GHz Intel or AMD processor

2 GB RAM

Sound card - DVD-ROM drive

2 GB free HD space

* You can activate via another computer connected to the Internet.

Guitar Pro 6 for Mac
Minimal Requirements (MIDI Playback)
Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Administrator's rights for installation, Internet connection for activation*

Intel processor

1 GB RAM

DVD-Rom drive

256 MB free HD space

RSE Requirements (Realistic Sound Engine)
Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Administrator's rights for installation, Internet connection for activation*

Core Duo 1.8GHz

2 GB RAM

DVD-ROM drive

2 GB free hard disk space

* You can activate via another computer connected to the Internet.

Technical Specifications
General
- Tablature editor for fretted instruments, from 4 to 8 strings
- Natively Windows / Mac / Linux compatible.
- Additional support for percussion and piano tracks
- Editing, display, and printing in tablature, standard notation, and rhythmic "slash" notation
- Multitrack scores

Interface
- 6 retractable panels, or "Universes": Edition, Instrument, RSE, Mastering, Chords, Lyrics.
- Multiple Document Interface
- Full-screen mode
- Complete stylesheet, to let you customize your scores (symbols, fonts, proportions, etc.)
- Possibility to switch from jazz to classical style in one click
- Advanced notation for the guitar: tablature for up to 8 strings, accented notes, left-hand tapping, rasgueado, arpeggio, rythmic "slash" notation (above and/or within the tablature), extended barre, partial capo
- Numerous effects (bend, slide, vibrato, grace notes, harmonics, etc.)
- Total support of chord diagrams (librairy + automatic recognition)
- Advanced standard notation: Grand Staff for piano, concert or transposition tone, G-, F-, and C-clefs, opening/closing repeat signs, free-time measures, multirests, fermata
- Fully customizable n-tuplets
- Double signs and ornaments: Simple and double simile bars, double dotting, double flat and double sharp, mordents and turns, two types of grace notes, etc.
- Percussion wizard
- Lyrics support
- Timer
- Note-capturing via a MIDI instrument

Editing
- Note duration wizard
- Capturing via multiple selection
- Repeat signs, and multiple coda signs
- Key signature wizard
- Extended copy/past (special paste from track to track, in multiple selection)
- Chord library for faster writing of chord into the score
- Simplified grace-note editing
- Intuitive editing of accidentals
- 1- to 4-voice editing, and multivoice editing
- Clickable score elements (tempo, clef ...)
- Advanced automation wizard (temo, volme, panoramic)
- Unlimited Undo/Redo

Printing
- Professional-quality printing
- Multitrack printing
- Choice between tablature, standard notation, and "slash" notation
- 100% customizable printing (size, fonts, proportions, area, elements, etc.)
- Print preview

Sound
- Score MIDI playback, with guitar effects (bend, etc.)
- Tuning library and possibility to tune each string independently
- Tempo selection
- Several dozens of instrument available with RSE
- Customizable effect chain (amps, stompboxes, racks) for each track
- Global mastering (compressor, reverb, equalization)
- 5-band semi-parametric equalizer for each track
- Choice of playing style (slap, picking, ...)
- Humanization of playback (accentuation, autobrush, ...)
- Selection of the instrument, volume, pan, chorus and reverb for each track
- 12-stringed guitar simulation
- Triplet feel playback
- Possibility to insert changes events (tempo, volume, instrument, etc.)
- Real-time Mixing with Soundboard

Import/Export
- Multitrack Import and Export with ASCII, MIDI formats, including quantization (0/1 formats)
- Optimized fingering for the MIDI importation
- MusicXML, WAV (audio), PDF, PNG (image) Export

Miscellaneous
- Transposition of part of a score via multiple selection
- Digital Tuner
- Guitar and bass virtual Fretboards
- Virtual Keyboard
- Scale analysis over multiple selection
- Speed Trainer (to practice part of a score in accelerating loops)
- Automatic bar-length wizard
- Automatic fingering wizard for optimal finger positioning
- Possibility to swap voices, to copy-paste from one voice to another

Formats
- gtp, gp3, gp4, gp5, gpx
- MIDI, ASCII
- WAV
- PNG
- MusicXML

Dimensions and Weight in Packaging

Shipping Weight: 1 lbs

Shipping Dimensions: 5 x 8 x 2 in