Talk:Guitar Pro

It's not a general purpouse software for musicians
If anybody has ever tried to actually use Guitar Pro for writing music, he knows GP is only good for tabbing songs on the guitar. There's no way you can actually use it for composing: it does not support transposition of cluster of notes or bars (nah, you have to transpose note by note or transpose the whole track), it does not allow you to write chords or notes that would be impossibile to play on a 6 or 7 string guitar even igf you are writing a piano part (and that's hilarious), if you transpose a track it will cut off any note that can't be played with the current tuning, etc... That's not to say "GP sucks", of course, but that the article is factually wrong at presenting it as an all-purpouse notation tool for musicians. It is only good to tab songs on the guitar, and that's what it's meant for.

...and sorry for crappy english —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.60.160.143 (talk) 16:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Though the above may be true, Guitar Pro is an awesome tool for learning songs. Even though most tabs are only close approximations of the actual recorded song, and despite GP's occasional limitations in creating the nuances of a guitar, GP is still an invaluable tool. 75.68.19.14 (talk) 19:57, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Links
I removed the guitartab.ru link because it was down, and added two resources worth noting. An official mirror of the power tab archive (mypowertabs.net) and a tab site that I found to have more tabs then any other yet (firetabs.com). The rest (u

this sounds a lot like an advertisement...

Don't think so; GP and Power Tab Editor have become widely used tablature software... only marginally larger than conventional text files, and comes with much more than just fret numbers. 61.91.191.11 15:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I Agree. Do we really need a page for this program? 68.111.52.153 22:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course we need a page for GP. This is not an advertisement since its not made by the creators of the software and never try to sell the product or show that it is superior in any way. We are talking about the most famous tablature editor here. If it doesn't deserve its page then which software does? A lot (I mean really a lot) of other software are present in wikipedia that falls very short of Guitar Pro's notability. It also have spawn a community of GP tab makers, just like the MOD players/trackers made in the Amiga days. It would be a shame to see a page about GP be thrown away. Sincerely, questioning GP's notability for inclusion in wikipedia sounds to me more like a direct attack from detractors of the software, not a reasoned, justified intention. If this page gets deleted then all other tab and score writer should also be deleted, being commercial or open-source. Loudenvier 12:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Why keep this?
Why keep this but deleted Power Tab Editor? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JAStewart (talk • contribs) 21:27, 7 February 2007 (UTC).


 * I agree. If Power Tab Editor was removed for "blatant advertising" (even though there's no financial gain to be achieved through its advertisement, unlike Guitar Pro), then why does this article exist? DeeKenn 21:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Because the audience of this program is too big. It is also the best tab editor for Windows, period. Its POV so I will never put it into the article itself, but its the best, specially now with great printouts and the RSE engine. If it gets deleted then every other Scorewriter should be deleted too. By the way the Power Tab article did not looked like an advertisement to me. It was a shame to see it getting deleted (take a look at the Scorewriter article and see how many programs are even less notable than Guitar Pro). If I had known it was happening I could have fight to keep it too. If a wrong was made (deleting Power Tab) it doesn't means that another wrong should be done by deleting this page. I can't see why you all seems to be interested in deleting this article instead of adding to it, for example why didn't we start to introduce information about the GP community and historical achievements of the software? Loudenvier 12:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I absolutely agree that GtrPro should be in Wikipedia, as should Power Tab. They exist, therefore they should be documented. Dlchambers (talk) 20:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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Resource usage.
In this article, it states that some copies of v5.2 have reportedly taken up over 200MB of RAM. I have proof that it can take well over a gig and totally overload your virtual memory. 76.69.167.147 (talk) 02:37, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Guitar Pro 6
The new website/Guitar Pro 6 was launched yesterday: http://www6.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php Further information: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Arobas-Music-Guitar-Pro/153747039336?ref=ts —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.44.196.146 (talk) 16:10, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Releases Section
There is very little info on the Guitar Pro releases, so if anyone is up to it, a releases section or article would be helpful. I would do it my self, but I am having a hard time finding good info on the releases, so if anyone else wants to... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Binrdow (talk • contribs) 00:02, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Backwards Compatibility?
FROM THE ARTICLE: "These file formats lack backwards compatibility however, and opening them in an older version of Guitar Pro prompts the user to upgrade their software to a newer version."

When an older version works with newer data formats it's called Forward Compatibility.

Backward Compatibility:

In the context of telecommunications and computing a device or technology is said to be backwards or downwards compatible if it can work with input generated by an older device.

Forward Compatibility:

The reverse is forward compatibility, which implies that old devices allow (or are expected to allow) data formats generated by new (or future) devices, perhaps without supporting all new features.

So, Guitar Pro IS backward compatible, as the newer versions open tabs from older versions, but it IS NOT forward compatible, as you cannot open files from newer versions of Guitar Pro in older versions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.250.184.104 (talk) 01:56, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

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