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Guitar Pro Changelog

What's new in Guitar Pro 7.5.1.1454

Aug 31, 2018
  • New features:
  • Compatibility with Fretlight Wireless guitars – Fretlight and Guitar Pro have teamed up to bring you the synchronization of your tabs’ content with Fretlight Wireless guitars. Designed for beginners, Fretlight guitars facilitate the learning of a song by lighting up LEDs on the fretboard to indicate where to place your fingers. Our iPhone and iPad application is also compatible with Fretlight Wireless guitars. Click here to find out how to connect your Fretlight guitar to Guitar Pro.
  • You will need Bluetooth 4.0 or higher to connect your Wireless Fretlight guitars to Guitar Pro 7.5. You may read these articles for Windows and macOS to check if you meet the minimum requirements.
  • Tempo display in screen mode – Located at the top of your Guitar Pro 7 window, the toolbar allows you to adjust the display of your score with the View mode button. Select either Vertical or Horizontal Screen view to have the tempo displayed on the score, and change it by simply clicking on the item.
  • Free tab of the day available in the Examples menu – To facilitate accessing the mySongBook free tab of the day, a direct link is now available in the menu File > Open Example. The tab of the day is displayed first.
  • “Pop” et “Slap” parameters added to XML export – Pop and slap playing effects are now handled when exporting and importing an XML file.
  • New option to remove a single file from recent files – The Guitar Pro 7 home screen shows the list of recent files opened with the software. You can now remove a single file from that list by right-clicking on your mouse > Remove from this list.
  • Fixes and enhancements:
  • Improved rendering of legato slides
  • Improved management of alternate endings
  • Double-clicking a volume button reinitializes it to 0dB
  • Save of the “View” option of the instrument view
  • Fixed bends height on MIDI export
  • Fixed sometimes off-set audio export
  • Fixed voice change/inversion tool
  • Fixed sound issues with AirPod earphones
  • Fixed conflict with bends’ inking points
  • Fixed undo/redo of bar deleting actually emptying the following bar
  • Fixed count-in with anacrusis
  • Fixed import of progressive tempos in .gpx files
  • Fixed sometimes defective focus in the inspector’s frames
  • Fixed regression leading to octave-shifted percussions when MIDI importing
  • Fixed incrementation of the speed trainer
  • Various corrections of XML import
  • Various crash fixes

New in Guitar Pro 7.0.7.909 (Dec 28, 2017)

  • The Italian translation is now available
  • The Swedish translation is now available
  • Add of the shortcut CTRL + F9 to activate the relative speed
  • Add of the timpani in the track wizard
  • Management of the mono sound cards on windows
  • Improvement of the .gp5 export
  • Improvement of the performances regarding step by step MIDI capture
  • Improvement of the score display
  • Synchronization with a Bluetooth speaker
  • The right-click on the virtual instrument now creates the note and go to the next beat
  • Save of the “display diagram” option between two sessions
  • The default trombone is now in F clef and not transposing
  • The sound is back in the scales window
  • Fix of the extended barres
  • Fix a loop problem with repetitions
  • Fix of the ref and ASCII import
  • Fix of the transposition tool which removed dead notes
  • Fix of the design mode when using dual screen
  • Various fixes on the chord library and chord creation windows
  • Various fixes on the fretboard (including short drone string)
  • Various display fixes
  • Various sound fixes
  • Various crashes fixes

New in Guitar Pro 7.0.0.442 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • New interface:
  • Interface more ergonomic and modern. A toolbar contains the main functionalities of the software and an inspector simplifies the song and tracks settings.
  • Performance and ease of use:
  • Software startup and files loading enhanced. Scroll and zoom more fluids. Install/update process improved.
  • High resolution:
  • The software is compatible with high resolution screens (Retina and HD) and touch screens.
  • Quality of the score's design:
  • The score-display engine has been entirely rewritten for even more realistic, professional sheet music.
  • New musical notation elements:
  • Notation now includes golpe, pick scrape, and dead slap. The writing of bends in standard notation has been enhanced, and we have improved the management of conflicts between the various elements of the score.
  • Tablature for all tracks:
  • In addition to fretted instruments like guitars, standard notation gets automatically transposed into tablature — this on all tracks, including piano, voice or drums.
  • Connect your guitar to Guitar Pro:
  • Plug your guitar into an external sound card connected to Guitar Pro and apply to it the effects exactly as they have been modeled for any track in a given file.
  • Polyphonic tuner:
  • Simply brush down the six strings together to check their tuning in one stroke.
  • New instrument banks:
  • Many sounds have been added, including the dobro, flamenco, manouche, and 7-string nylon guitars, the electric sitar, fretless bass, jazz double bass, accordions, mellotron, harmonicas, bagpipe, new synthesizers, and drum machines.
  • Stereo sounds:
  • It is possible to choice between mono and stereo for all acoustic instruments and automatic spacialization for drumkits.
  • Simplified audio adjustments:
  • Choose and modify your sound from over 1000 presets combining a soundbank and an effects chain.
  • Mixing MIDI/RSE:
  • It is possible, within any given single file, to mix tracks that use MIDI tones and others that use RSE tones.
  • Virtual fretboard and keyboard:
  • The virtual-instrument (guitar, bass, banjo, and piano) windows are resizable.
  • Lock your files:
  • It is possible to lock your file to avoid modifying it by mistake. A password can be added to prevent opening or only editing.
  • New audio-export formats:
  • MP3, FLAC and Ogg formats are available when exporting RSE (Realistic Sound Engine) tracks. It is also possible to export all tracks separately in a single operation.
  • MIDI and MusicXML formats:
  • Imports and exports in MIDI and MusicXML formats have been improved for a better compatibility between Guitar Pro and other musical softwares.

New in Guitar Pro 6.1.8 R11681 (Aug 12, 2015)

  • Updated: SSL certificates for mySongBook
  • Fixed: Issues on keyboards without number pads
  • Fixed: Fretlight Ready driver

New in Guitar Pro 6.1.6 R11621 (Oct 9, 2014)

  • Slides’ sound rendering improved in RSE (Realistic Sound Engine).
  • Bar numbers now taken in consideration while printing tabs (accordingly to the stylesheet settings).
  • Speedtrainer turns off by default after GP6 start up.
  • “Step by step” playing feature added (“Sound” menu).
  • Powertab import feature improved.
  • Music XML import feature improved.
  • Playing cursor now performs well with any time signature.
  • Font issue on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks now fixed.
  • Intermediate steps and new units (%) added to the tempo coefficient scale.
  • “Play from the begining” shortcut added on Mac (Shift + Space).
  • Frelight Guitar supported with USB 3.0 ports.
  • Copyright information updated.
  • Translations updated.