I’d say that for the price the new Guitar Pro 8 offers a lot of very useful features, and many of these would be very beneficial to guitarists of all abilities. Many of which bring it close to a package like Sibelius, just with a focus especially for guitar players. Which all adds up to a more professional quality package for musicians.Ĭonsidering, for example, something like Sibelius can be up to 10 times the price of this software, it is great that they have now included all these pretty fundamental features.

They have finally added nested tuplets and things like scale diagrams, plus piano fingering.

This last feature means you can adjust widths and spacings, making it easier for you to read bars, chord boxes and diagrams within your scored music. Plus, you can now customise your tabs, align bars, adjust individual beats and there are new Stylesheets that allow you to have your music personalised. These allow you to build your guitar tones, so that your guitar will sit in the track. The new virtual effect chain is essentially a virtual pedalboard with individual stompboxes. The latter allows you to keep your tone, whilst you skip too another track, Virtual Effect Chain

This is accompanied by the ability to fix the tempo of a track, change the relative speed during playback via +/- keys which speed up or slow down the track, and the ability lock the sound of the line-in. There is now a visual metronome to help you maintain your timing. Perfect to help you pick out the part you are attempting to learn. Then there are a suite of new practice tools which includes the ability to f ocus/unfocus tracks via a volume boost. There is even a time-stretching function which could be very useful. One of the major updates is the ability to add an audio file to your scores and have it play back in time with your score. Want to learn how to play Little Wing? What’s New?Īctually, this update brings a whole host of new features and so it looks like a pretty major overhaul of the software package.

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