One powerful music writing application.

I have been using the free Power Tab guitar tablature software for many years now. It’s a pretty good piece of free software, but it does have it’s bugs. I hasn’t seen any development for many years either. I had been quite curious about Guitar Pro, and it’s RSE2 sound banks. Thanks to Shelley at eMedia Music, I received a copy of Guitar Pro 6 to review. I have only scratched the surface of Guitar Pro’s powerful functionality in this review, but I believe it will give any potential buyers an idea of what they can do with it.

Guitar Pro is fairly easy to use straight out of the box. You have musical notation, and guitar tablature line to work with on the page, and musical notation options on the left hand side. All you have to do is move the cursor on the notation page with your arrow keys to the string you want to be on, and enter a number representing the fret you want the note to be on. You can select the type of note you want (for instance, whole, half, quarter, etc note) from the tool pane on the left hand side. All of the standard musical symbols are available hear to set tempo, treble or bass staff, repeating options, codas, etc. (more…)