User Guide - Guitar Pro

[Pages:447]User Guide

Summary

Introduction ...........................................................................................................1

Basics .......................................................................................................................3

What is Guitar Pro

4

Installation

5

Update

14

Getting help

17

What's new

19

Features

22

Musical notation

24

Where to find music sheets?

27

Navigating in Guitar Pro ...................................................................................29

Home page

30

Main screen

34

Navigate in a score

41

Score display

45

Writing a score.....................................................................................................49

Score structure

50

Score

50

Tracks

57

Bars

61

Sections

64

Voices

65

Notes

68

Tuning

60

Score edition

72

Copy, paste and cut

72

Click on score elements

74

Automations

75

Assistants

78

Drums and percusions

80

Symbols

83

Bar

83

Note

88

Effects

92

Summary | i

Automations

105

Notation and design

106

Extras

108

Lyrics

108

Stylesheet

110

Repeats and directions

136

Audio in Guitar Pro .......................................................................................... 143

Score playback

144

Soundboard

148

Track sound

150

Score sound

156

MIDI

157

Line-in

160

Import and export files .................................................................................. 163

Import

164

ASCII

164

MIDI

165

Import MusicXML, PowerTab, TablEdit

170

Batch converter

171

Export

173

Audio

173

ASCII

174

MIDI

175

MusicXML

175

Adobe PDF

175

PNG

175

Printing

176

Tools .................................................................................................................... 177

Chord diagrams

178

Scales

183

Instrument views

185

Tuner

190

File protection

191

Fretlight

192

Browser

195

mySongBook ..................................................................................................... 199

What is mySongBook?

200

Open a file from mySongBook

201

Preferences ....................................................................................................... 207

General

208

Interface

211

Score errors

213

User information

214

Audio

215

Appendix ............................................................................................................ 219

Signature sounds

220

ii | Summary

Effects

228

Shortcuts

232

Summary | iii

iv | Summary

Chapter 1

Introduction

Introduction | 1

Welcome!

You have just purchased Guitar Pro 7.6, congratulations and welcome to the Guitar Pro family! Guitar Pro is back with its best version yet. Faster, stronger and modernized, Guitar Pro 7.6 offers many new features. Whether you are a longtime Guitar Pro user or a new user, you will find all the necessary information in this user guide to make the best out of this software.

2 | Chapter 1: Introduction

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