All user reviews for the Arobas Music Guitar Pro 6

Im a long time Guitar Pro user (since version 4) on Windows (XP, Vista 7) and OSX.
Before the change to OSX 10.7 it was running ok at best. After Lion it has become a nightmare of a software.
It will not recognize the sound card, regardless of it being the build-n card or any external interface, such as MOTU 896 MkIII, AVID Eleven Rack, and forget Axe-Fx 2 for this since the software only plays nice at 44.1 kHz sample rate.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The basic idea of it as a transcription app is sound. It worked great up to version 5. There are some weird short comings like midi export does not include pitch bends you draw into the tab, or print outs insist on having dynamics marks. But the ingest issue is that not only does the current version not want to run on Lion even though the developer claims its Lion compatible, even worse their support is beyond lame. Their standard question to the same recurring problem by numerous customers is have you switched your audio deice to 44.1 kHz.

OVERALL OPINION

If they get around to making it run stable again it will be ok. Not great! Before the issue with Lion it had a tendency to play back at the wrong pitch (sample rate issue). Therefore being completely unusable as a play along unless you changed the tuning of the program.

My suggestion for any one looking at transcription software would be to look into the programs notion music offers.
Also the display options and fonts are nothing you would expect from a transcription software. I've dabbled in Sibelius which looks amazing, and am used to do my wok in Finale which also looks great and the printed end results are not comparable.I just downloaded the den for Notion and that seems to do everything I need in the way I do, and look the way it should. Unlike this disappointment of a software.

No problem for installation: the classic.
No configuration, no need for manual: the hallmark of guitar pro, was installed, it works!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

So, here we will laugh a little.
For the config, it's old: P4 2.8Ghz, 2GB DDR, 320GB disks of 3 / 8 partitions.
Win XP: the CSR jump all the time, I was quickly taken the lead ... disabled, reading the bar that moves randomly ... the transition to a higher version is not top if that is nothing new aesthetics: here disappointed.
Linux (ubuntu studio / gnome) and ... magic enters the CSR turn niquel certainly a bit much (always between 65 and 85%), but it's not pop, it does not lague ... and the bar reading a ultra smooth motion, everything works niquel! ... Go just for the retail angry: you can not use timidity to leave a beautiful sound directly south of the tabs GP: p

OVERALL OPINION

It's been 3 months that I passed ...
Its main advantage is open to the world of free (For that, thank QT: p): linux today, tomorrow maybe BSD, who knows?
Of course ... one could compare it to its "rival" free: tuxguitar, who made a great tablature, but is less handy for writing that GP.
What can blame him ... the window of the fretboard sloppy, they have not even taken the time to give it a name, they left the "Qt-subapplication". A little bugged too ... But hey, these are just details.
And finally in old troll: You can blame him for not opening its source, but not!
And if not, seriously, the new organization is not really clear: we balance all the symbols on the same pace, and pick the right ... On AC, GP5 was much better organized.

In short, it's good to see our little French home at sign to advance their project in this way, of course anyway, € 60 for software of any kind, I think it looks really expensive, but hey .. . at least with guitar pro, we know that in any case, it will not even pay for itself in one week!

Basic installation on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), not very complicated. Big Update after installation.

Rating: 8 - Nothing to say, if not Shift a little long.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Ouch.

I own a MacBook Pro 2010 with a Core 2 GHz Duo@2.4. The fact open a tab with GP6 not even start playing implies a consumption of 100% of one of two hearts. So the laptop heats up, the fan gets under way, and so on. Not cool. Including a brand new facility.

Rating: 3 - The problem of overconsumption of resources on a computer powerful enough irritates me greatly at the highest point.

OVERALL OPINION

Finally ... I just read my scores on the iPhone if I have to work only a few measures of tablature. Time to put them in mind. It is unfortunate that GP6 has become a gas plant instead of a simple and effective soft as could be older versions of GP.

Final score: 5 - A feeling of not finished damage.

Installing without worries on a MacBook Pro. one little problem: can not activate it via a proxy (manually activated ok).
Manual = no read, no need.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Config = MacBook Pro 13 "2.26GHz 4GB RAM Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.3
Sound card = Table Alesis Multimix 16 firewire
Very good performance. One or two small crashes when importing file GP3
Otherwise good stability

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week to print work using tabs and playback. The new banks of sounds are fine, as more than enough to work.
I like sequencer Cubase LE 4: this is not the same use as Guitar Pro. I have not tested other products of this type (there are there?)
I have not yet tested the imported MIDI file.
Super money. Finally a software of very good quality at an affordable price, I do it again this choice without hesitation.

Laborious installation if the PC is not connected to the web or locked behind a proxy, web site very tight-lipped about updates, install sound banks not documented. A little galley first. For further updates, it's easier.

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

The software opens the scores much slower than the version 4 software. The PC is not very recent (Athlon 2.7 GHz) and has 1Gb of RAM. The CSR is nice, but greedy. My CPU goes up to 30% for the rendering of a partition with 3 tracks. If not for the work in the tool itself is fluid.

OVERALL OPINION

I purchased the upgrade from version 4 to its output, all lured by new opportunities for ratings. And they are waiting for you. The notation is complete and I lack nothing. The software has been completely revised. The result is very beautiful. For me it was not necessary. The ergonomics of the version 4 was enough.
The CSR is a cool gadget but dispensable. This new version contains a lot of configuration options and have passed their usefulness. The app is generally pleasant to use, but it took time and a fair gripe. The stability is improved a lot since the release of May. Importing files gp4 is not exceptional but is still honest, export to gp5 format is finally proposed.
The Borwer disappeared. It gives me a big negative. By itself this would justify a negative rating if there were significant improvements in terms of scoring.

1. GETTING OEUVREL'installation is it without problem?
The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
No unfortunately I purchased to install on a Mac G5 with Mac OSX 10.5.8 lopard. Before I buy m'tais Misrepresenta biensur about setting have. And on the box reads from mac osx 10.4.

And very nasty surprise, impossbile to install it on my mac as specific on their site it in tiny "intel mac" only! Shame, the Mac G5 are not so old that has and should be able to install guitar pro without problem. So I had to install on my pc portalbe!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

So once installed on my pc (vista) that it is regularly planted my printer. Virtually impossible to print with version 6! require the use of 5!

OVERALL OPINION

Basically I do not like this version that I no longer use. For entering my own partitions, I use version 4, which is best for me so far. The sounds of version 6 are horrible! can be discerned even more different instruments. Not to mention all these plug ins pedal to effect selection of microphone that serve absolutely nothing except the sound adjuncts dfromer! Guitar pro must remain a spreadsheet software partition and not a virtual instrument with squenceur. Then come back to a simpler version as 4 thank you.

Installation is no problem even offline Just follow the instructions

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

my computer is a bit old but it go, little problem for imports Midi Files

OVERALL OPINION

small problem for a set days offline on the site no information
how do we
This poses a big problem for me, I used to do my course pages, so far I used Tuxguitar
small open source software for printing on paper not very efficient
especially for the layout, but passont
(A horse is not to look too much teeth)

So I buy Gpro6 which seems much more efficient than TuxGuitar
and of course the line thickness ranges notation and tablature
lost TuxGuitar wins by KO

what is the fool not to say (What C. ...) in Arobas Music has forgotten that put the lines laid in gray, black TuxGuitar I can change some color settings in my ass on the Gpro6 I'm still comfortable and polished

Cheap morality but with gaps to give you a toothache

I do not do it again this election

The installation 'was made without problems


SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Fluid and stable under XP or 7
Obviously, he settled on Linux (this said, I could take the test under Ubuntu, but will not do that ... see why later)


OVERALL OPINION


It does not equal in terms of fluidity seizure, PowerTab, free, version 1.7, which starts dating seriously. Several shots pick down, eg., Do not display hook in GP6 but ... several shots down. Unlike PowerTab who was already 10 years ago.
For the tapping must be content with a T score, while strapping notes typed proven long ago, in terms of readability.
seizure of left hand fingering wins the prize for ridiculous GP6: It was right for small fingers mimine on which Click to view the correct fingering, and no shortcuts, to boot! There I really felt to be mistaken for a moron ... Again PowerTab GP6 buried by far ...

GP6 is not better than PowerTab, I think, in terms of layout (eg impossible to hide the empty system, which is strictly zero if input multi-track where the guitar does not play for 8 measures, or if you just want a mean riff is repeated identically without having to display it - it consumes paper if you print, and it increased the reading)
on the other hand, a good place for multiple export formats (PNG, PDF, XML) GP6

And it is on the section of the layout, a program such as Sibelius, stands ... Unmatched, you say? One cost 60 € and the other 400 €.
So he had to GP6 stands also PowerTab old and free for not having to suffer disturbing comparisons

These comparisons are not trivial. The goal is to show that the GP6 "between two stools". Neither easy nor professional (despite the misleading suffix) just ... accessible.
The Disney entry tablature, what ...

And the argument there-is-not-my-dear-carpet is not:
€ 60 is not necessarily anything especially if used for 30 to € at the end of the end ...)

Nevertheless, it has some real (and I do not think there, the pseudo-virtual studio that completes in-fooling us), but the client just disappointed to be fair play, especially since the latest day does not come, and obviously, it will still pay ... This obviously I will not.

In short, not nearly enough as is.

The installation is done it without problems? No worries ... Nevertheless, the first updates take time! Once the first updates made, well if you use it often it goes fast!

The manual is clear and sufficient? Comprehensive manual!

SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

Attention to save your old versions in the new format (. Gpx) otherwise, some changes will bugger the software! It will also remember to check the sounds and, less often, the score (some notes are not transcribed for the passage. Gp to. Gpx) ...

When you're used to older versions, it takes a little time to get started ... Nevertheless, Has it not for 107 years either!

Net progress on CSR, however, it still sounds a bit synthetic (although you certainly sound card ...)! Nevertheless, many opportunities for critical ...

It is quite possible to change the sounds settings in a single track (up to 4) but not the instruments!

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using in November 2010 whether to work partitions for my group (homogeneity of the different instruments), call or come with me ... I've used older versions of GP before and it suits me perfectly so I do not see the need to look elsewhere!

What I like most is the interface and the ability to make nice scores and simply use the software that allows me! What I like least is having so many settings possible sounds, it's good for diversity, but we tend to get lost in it all and it is not, in my opinion, the purpose of the software (or it should be a simple version for sounds with opportunities to have all that for the most demanding?). And also the lack of scores gpx on the net but it will come

55 euros at fnac, good value for money for a choice I would do it again without hesitation!