How To Download and use Guitar Pro 5

Wondered how I made tabs? Here is the anwer! This instructable will show you how to download and use my fave program, Guitar Pro 5

Step 1 Minimum Requirements

Minimal Requirements
§ Windows® 98SE/2000/XP
§ Administrator rights for installation
§ Pentium 500 Mhz - 128 MB RAM
§ Sound card - CD-ROM drive
§ 35 MB free hard disk space

Comments

[M_Guyver]

Great, more BLOATED commercial software. ....... The only TAB editor I recommend to guitarists is PowerTAB. It's freeware, it duplicates your TABs into standard notation, has over 100 instruments, built-in guitar tuner, and more features than you can shake a drumstick at. It will even PLAY your song and you can print it out. ... Just Google for "PowerTAB" and you can get the software and thousands of songs online in the PowerTAB format. ... It's fantastic, and best of all it only takes up 3.5 MB of hard disk space.

[ajleece]

Guitar pro is a million times better. Have you even used it?
Guitar pro does all that. As in, all of that. Does power tab to drums? Or sheet music? Didn't think so.

[jimsreynolds]

Uh, this is an advert.  There is nothing here that is not found within the basic marketting and install procedure for the product.  This really ain't appropriate for a site like this.  If it is, I will be back next week advertising ...  well I dunno, something !

[alfpwns]

This is awsome!

[rifarnsworth]

You might also like to look at not installing the RSE if space is tight. It's over ten times the size of the actual program. 


also: I  use it without the Tablature (musical score only) for quickly transposing for my SAX player. Noice

[juneapaluna]

Any clue if the works with vista? And is there anything special about administrative rights for download or do you just have to say that ;[]?

[valhallas_end]

It works just fine with Vista, and no, admin rights are really only necessary for multi-user computers or an account without full control. Just be warned: GP5 is a MIDI-form tab player, but comes with a Realistic Sound Engine (RSE) that emulates true instrument sounds (Okay for some instruments, flat and toneless for most but still fun to play with). However, the RSE software has an annoying tendency to mess with other MIDI audio settings, so if you use any programs with MIDI tones or play games that keep audio files in this format, they *may* sound distorted. If you do, I recommend not installing the RSE at all.
Other than that, GP5 is a great tool for learning songs quickly or jotting down a riff or song you've written with full tempo control.

[juneapaluna]

Okay, thank you very much.