Guitar Pro

What's new in this version:

Guitar Pro 7.5.1 Build 1454

New features :
- Compatibility with Fretlight Wireless guitars -Fretlight and Guitar Pro have teamed up to give you the ability to synchronize your tablature content with Fretlight Wireless guitars. Designed for beginners, these guitars facilitate the learning of a song with luminous LEDs located on the fretboard which indicate where to place your fingers. Our iPhone and iPad application is also compatible with Fretlight Wireless guitars. Click here to find out how to connect your Fretlight guitar to Guitar Pro.
- At least Bluetooth 4.0 is necessary to connect your Wireless Fretlight guitars to Guitar Pro 7.5. You can consult these articles for Windows and macOS to check if you meet this minimum requirement.
- Tempo display in screen mode – Located at the top of your Guitar Pro 7 window, the toolbar allows you to adjust the display of your score with the View mode button. If you select the Vertical or Horizontal Screen view, the tempo is now displayed in the score and you can change it by simply clicking on the item.
- Free tab of the day available in the examples menu – To facilitate access to the free tab of the day offered on mySongBook, a direct link is now available in the File menu > Open Example. The tab of the day is displayed first.
- “Pop” et “Slap” parameters added to XML export – Pop and slap playing effects are now handled when exporting and importing an XML file.
- Option to remove a single file from recent files added – The Guitar Pro 7 home screen shows the list of recent files opened with the software. You can now remove a single file from this list using the right mouse button > Remove from this list.

Fixes and enhancements:
- Improved rendering of legato slides
- Improved alternate endings management
- A double-click on a volume button reinitialize it to 0dB
- Save of the “View” option of the instrument view
- Fixed bends height on MIDI export
- Fixed sometimes shifted audio export
- Fixed change/voice inversion tool
- Fixed sound issues with AirPod earphones
- Fixed conflict with inking points of bends
- Fixed undo/redo actions of the delete action which dumped the next bar
- Correction of the count in with anacrusis
- Fixed the import of progressive tempos of .gpx files
- Fixed a defective focus in the fields of the inspector
- Fixed a regression leading to octave shifted percussions on MIDI import
- Fixed the incrementation of the speed trainer
- Various correction on XML import
- Various crashes fixes


Guitar Pro 7.5.0 Build 13450
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Guitar Pro 7.5.0 Build 1344
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Guitar Pro 7.5.0 Build 1322
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Guitar Pro 7.0.9 Build 1186
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Guitar Pro 7.0.8 Build 1042
- The Polish translation is now available
- Major enhancement of performances
- Scrollbar enlargement
- Tuning is played in loop to facilitate guitar tuning
- Systematic creation of the brushes and arpeggios on each notation
- Improvement in the “Adjust fingering” option
- Reinstatement of the copy paste between pitched instrument track and drums track
- MIDI numbers export according to the General MIDI standard for drums MIDI export
- Saving “Fit to width” and “Fit to height” options when closing the file
- Calculation of the fingering after removing a string, avoiding notes lost
- Saving of the list of the last opened files after a crash
- Reinstatement of accidentals on the fretboard on Windows
- Fix the design mode on a second screen
- Fix the incomplete bars which were not displayed in red if the option “Force stylesheet” was activated
- Fix stereo problems
- Fix transposition tool for transposition voices
- Fix metronome for ternary rhythms
- Fix the key signature in case of a consequent number of accidentals
- Fix directions which was not always interpreted
- Fix the mono sound cards in input on Windows
- Various partial capo fixes
- Fix the 5 strings banjo tuning
- Fix the “All track copy paste” tool
- Fix wrong pitch of natural harmonics in standard notation when there is a whammy over the beat
- Various display fixes
- Various interface fixes
- Various crashes fixes


Guitar Pro 7.0.7 Build 909
- The Italian translation is now available
- The Swedish translation is now available
- Add of the shortcut CTRL + F9 to activate the relative speed
- Add of the timpani in the track wizard
- Management of the mono sound cards on windows
- Improvement of the .gp5 export
- Improvement of the performances regarding step by step MIDI capture
- Improvement of the score display
- Synchronization with a Bluetooth speaker
- The right-click on the virtual instrument now creates the note and go to the next beat
- Save of the “display diagram” option between two sessions
- The default trombone is now in F clef and not transposing
- The sound is back in the scales window
- Fix of the extended barres
- Fix a loop problem with repetitions
- Fix of the ref and ASCII import
- Fix of the transposition tool which removed dead notes
- Fix of the design mode when using dual screen
- Various fixes on the chord library and chord creation windows
- Various fixes on the fretboard (including short drone string)
- Various display fixes
- Various sound fixes
- Various crashes fixes

Guitar Pro 7.0.6 Build 810
Improving automatic backup and data recovery:
- If your Guitar Pro 7 ever shuts down unexpectedly before you had the chance to save the file(s) you were working on, you can now recover your work by simply restarting Guitar Pro 7. The program will ask you if you wish to re-open the file(s) that were active before the shutdown
- When you start the program, you’ll see a blue caption appear warning you that “Guitar Pro did not close correctly during the last session”. To recover your files, click on Restore the last backup files

New keyboard shortcuts:
Guitar Pro 7 gets ever user-friendlier, as we’ve added 7 keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac. Guitar Pro 6 users will be glad to see F5 and F6 shortcuts back, for easier access to score and track properties:
- F2 Show/Hide edition palette
- F3 Switch between displaying only one of the piece’s tracks, and displaying all tracks (1 instrument only, or all instruments)
- F5 Show/Hide the Song inspector, to define the score’s properties
- F6 Show/Hide the Track inspector, to define the track’s properties
- F8 Show/Hide global view
- F9 Enable/Disable looped playing
- F10 Show/Hide automation editor

The program now adapts to lower screen resolutions:
- Guitar Pro 7’s windows Preferences, Stylesheet, and Chord library will now fit whatever size your screen is in, and can be resized by you for easier use on lower screen resolutions.

Specific display of the root note on the virtual instrument view:
- The root, or tonic, is the note on which a chord or a scale is founded. It is now highlighted in a blue square on the virtual fretboard when the Scale option is on.

Printing better-looking music scores:
- The thickness of score lines has been reduced for printing and for .PDF and .PNG exporting.

Other improvements and fixes:
- The “Solo” and “Mute” options are taken in account when audio exporting
- Performances are enhanced, notably for MIDI playing
- MusicXML importing and exporting have been improved
- The interface and score’s design have been enhanced
- We have clarified issues regarding Copy / Paste
- We have fixed wrong bend rendering when MIDI playing
- We have brought various fixes regarding ties
- We have fixed the Transposition and the Arrange Bar tools
- We have brought various fixes regarding shortcut
- We have made various corrections regarding translations
- We have made various fixes regarding crashing, notably in relation to Undo and the use of Bluetooth speakers

Guitar Pro 7.0.5 Build 699
- The Japanese translation is now available
- The page format is now saved in the stylesheet
- More securities have been added to avoid file corruption
- Whammy bars can be exported in .gpx
- Fixed: special characters import, including Korean characters and German umlaut
- Fixed: fingering errors during transposition
- Fixed: audio export sometimes not creating the file
- Changes in tempo unit are now recognized
- Corrections have been made for files without an effect chain
- Resolved: countdown not working when speed trainer is activated
- Synchronisation of the score and global view during selection is now allowed
- Fixed: HiDPI scaling issues on Windows 10
- Various fixes on the tie option, including drum tracks and unwanted display of naturals
- Various crashes fixes, including on startup and shut down on some machines
- Various fixes in the chords window
- Various shortcut fixes
- Various translation fixes
- Various display fixes

Guitar Pro 7.0.4 Build 659
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Guitar Pro 7.0.3 Build 608
New translations: German, Spanish, Russian, and simplified Chinese:
- To change the language in which your Guitar Pro 7 is set, open the program’s Preferences and switch to the chosen language in the Interface section

The “Left-Handed” option appears in the virtual instrument:
- Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, Elizabeth Cotten, Kurt Cobain… All of those guitar players are left-handed. If such is your case, you may now activate the “left-handed” option and view the Guitar Pro 7 guitar or bass fretboard from your point of view.

Import and export your own effect chains:
- You can now export whatever settings you used for the effect chains you created in Guitar Pro 6, from GP6 to 7.

Updating Guitar Pro 7 on Windows used to not be possible (for versions prior to 7.0.3):
- The problem is solved in this new version. If you were concerned by it we invite you to install the update manually
- To that effect, you will need to retrieve the Updater via the Windows file explorer. In your file explorer, type in %TEMP% as file path. This will lead you to the Updater in your temp folder. Double-click on the file to manually launch the updating process

Keyboard shortcuts improved:
- Shortcuts can help you be more productive as you use Guitar Pro. This new update solves whatever problems shortcuts might have posed in the Windows as well as in the macOS versions.
- This version 7 does not let you customize your shortcuts. A list of all of the keyboard shortcuts existing for Guitar Pro will soon be available.

Other fixes:
- Added: “Indicate the bass of the chord for inversions” option in the chord window
- Added: tuning “Drop D, down 1/2 step”
- Improved: concert and transposition tones management
- Improved: copy / paste tools
- Saving of the enharmonic
- Allows for sound change on a selection
- Allows adding a chord onto a selection
- Optional export of the metronome and count down for the audio export
- Corrected: LCD display when a note duration is modified
- Corrected: fingering windows
- Various corrections of the Palm Mute
- Corrected: alternate repetitions
- Added: effect-pedal tooltips
- Corrected: dynamics on drums import
- Corrected: artificial harmonics
- Corrected: tuning imports
- Corrected: repeat bar line on time signature other than 4/4
- Corrected: option “Hide tempo automations”
- Corrected: EQ presets application
- Corrected: shortcuts
- Corrected: play on tuning and chords windows
- Corrected: note which was muted on play
- Corrected: design mode
- Corrected: Windows file associations
- Various display fixes
- Various printing fixes
- Various crashes fixes

Guitar Pro 7.0.2 Build 535
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Added option to restore the last backup files. You can recover your work if Guitar Pro crashes
- Display fingering option in the chords window is now applied properly
- Copy paste is allowed from a multi voice track to a mono voice track
- Resolved an issue with rests that could cut the sound of other staves
- Update of the rests when the standard notation is removed
- Apply transposition on copy paste
- Use the default sound device on Windows
- Improvement of the PDF export (background layer deletion)
- Improvement on the drum edition
- Sound update for double similes
- Corrected a bug with transport buttons (play, go to previous bar, go to first bar…)
- Fixes a bug with scales display on the fretboard
- Fixes a bug when selecting the pages to print
- Improved the panoramic in MIDI
- Various audio fixes and improvements
- Various fixes on the audio export
- Various score notations improvements
- Various shortcut fixes
- Various fixes in the stylesheet
- Various fixes on tunings
- Various crashes fixes
- Other performance enhancements and minor bug fixes

Translation added:
- Russian is now available in Guitar Pro 7. Translations in other languages will be provided with the next free software updates

Guitar Pro 7.0.1 Build 475
New interface:
- The interface gets more modern still, and more user-friendly. A toolbar contains the main functionalities of the software and an inspector simplifies choosing the song and tracks settings

Performance and ease of use:
- Software startup and file loading have been enhanced. Scrolling and zooming are now both smoother. The install/update process is also improved

High resolution:
- The software is compatible with high resolution screens (Retina and HD) and touch screens

Quality of the score's design:
- The score-display engine has been entirely rewritten for even more realistic, professional sheet music

New musical notation elements:
- Notation now includes golpe, pick scrape, and dead slap. The writing of bends in standard notation has been enhanced, and we have improved the management of conflicts between the various elements of the score

Tablature for all tracks:
- In addition to fretted instruments like guitars, standard notation gets automatically transposed into tablature — this on all tracks, including piano, voice or drums

Connect your guitar to Guitar Pro:
- Plug your guitar into an external sound card connected to Guitar Pro and apply to it the effects exactly as they have been modeled for any track in a given file

Polyphonic tuner:
- Simply brush down the six strings together to check their tuning in a single stroke

New instrument banks:
- Many sounds have been added, including the dobro, flamenco, manouche, and 7-string nylon guitars, the electric sitar, fretless bass, jazz double bass, accordions, mellotron, harmonicas, bagpipe, new synthesizers, and drum machines

Stereo sounds:
- You can choose between mono and stereo for all acoustic instruments, as well as add automatic spacialization to drumkits

Simplified audio adjustments:
- Choose and modify your sound from over 1000 presets combining a soundbank and an effects chain

Mixing MIDI/RSE:
- Guitar Pro 7 makes it possible, within any given single file, to mix tracks that use MIDI tones with others that use RSE tones

Virtual fretboard and keyboard:
- The virtual-instrument (guitar, bass, banjo, and piano) windows are resizable

Lock your files:
- You may lock your file to prevent any accidental modification. You may also add a password to it, to keep it from being opened or edited

New audio-export formats:
- MP3, FLAC and Ogg formats are available when exporting RSE (Realistic Sound Engine) tracks. It is also possible to export all tracks separately in a single operation

MIDI and MusicXML formats:
- Imports and exports in MIDI and MusicXML formats have been improved for better compatibility between Guitar Pro and other musical software programs