Guitar Pro Reviews 

This is my first time using Guitar-Pro. I’ve been using it for a few weeks at this time, but software seems very intuitive so far. I still have a lot to learn, but use it mostly for learning songs and find it very useful for this purpose. More in-depth videos of how to use the software would be helpful.

Very comprehensive tool for learning licks, riffs, melodies, rhythms. Various features to adjust to personal needs. A bit overwhelming in the beginning but once understood it is great! I miss the feature to import tabs on pdf.

Good software. Sad it's not on Linux. With new packaging managers or even AppImage possibilities it's super weird this program can't exist at least in some way on Linux

For the most part it works great. The thing I don't like is that you can't customize chords the way you want to.
The position on the neck, the fingering and naming of the chords gets interfered with too much by guitar pro 8. Perhaps there are ways to bypass the interference that I don't know yet. Than it's 5 stars.

Not your fault at all. I just needed it for printing out guitar tabs. So therefore there is too much for me. But i guess for the more advanced it rocks !!

it is great software to put your music 'on paper', change it, experiment etc. And also the options to change settings (like play it as '12 string' or 'piano') are nice to have.
For me, not used to writing down music at all, the many options are still a bit fuzzy, also it still takes me a lot of time to make simple changes. Could be me though...

I've been using GP5 since forever and finally did the upgrade. Works like a charm! And it runs on both my Windows laptop and my iMac.

Absolutely worth the money!

Love the new feature that allows you add an audio and sync it with the tab.
Not an easy process to be fair, but amazing anyway.

Love the upgrade from GP5 to GP8.

I tried GP7 for a little while and found that the tool for transposing drop-tuned 4string bass tabs into 5-string standard tuning was totally busted. The ability to do this on GP5 was the whole reason I got a 5-string bass where I wouldn't need to keep retuning.

GP8 delivers though! The automatic adjust fingering tool gives reasonable hand positions instead of doing insane fret jumps.

Only beef so far (which is something I can fix myself), is that some tabs I had saved as GP5 files have some new track volume balancing issues where dynamics (or vibrato turned into whammy bar shenanigans) have become extremely exaggerated in GP8. The tabs played fine in GP5 some now have new whacky artifacts in GP8. Still 5/5 because this I can fix the tabs and resave the worst offending tabs.

The software is a guitarist dream. Thank you!!

My song book sucks. Very relevant artists Elvis a couple of songs???? Englebert Humperdinck very relevant no songs??? Come on man I would like my money back

very good software, easy to handle.

Absolutely fantastic software. I use it primarily for practice, and have been using it across windows and Mac machines. Honestly, I love it.

Only request would be a “prevent sleep” option for osx.

It’s fantastic and relatively intuitive. Plenty of support if you find yourself getting stuck.

I personally use it as part of my song writing process as well as when learning new songs.

Works well if you’re exporting midis to DAWs, too!

wish i had found this software sooner. great program for learning guitar with the ability to download guitar pro songs and edit and reduce or increase audio tracks, slow the song so can learn the track and play over the song with full backing.
Great. Many thanks.

This is a great app for transcribing, but not that easy to use at first. You need to watch a tutorial video and practice using it.

i purchased a yearly subscription

It allows you to access transcription of hundreds of songs but unfortunately you only get some songs and exercise tabs( which are useful) however if you want any more transcriptions of song you need to buy credits for each one.

This is a disappointment as it was advertised that by subscribing to it and paying a yearly fee customers get access to loads of transcriptions.

due to its difficultly in using it and additional cost on top of yearly fee i have score this 3 out of 5.

Guitar pro is a fantastic software.
I just wish there was an automatic conversion of PDF files to Guitar pro files.
Other than that, I definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys playing the guitar and even other instruments due to the fact one gets to play the notes along and learn tempo and notes. Tabs format and the guitar neck view are a great idea as well, I could go on and on, this is a well invested money.

In a world of AI we can make guitar and other instrument samples sound better this company charges big bucks for the product and I believe they can afford to update . I want composition of songs to be easier and that what I bought this software for but the interface is not very good or use friendly

If you are a guitarist so you know this is your best friend.
I recommend upgrading to 8 to everyone who didn't yet.
Putting backing track audio file on the tabs is so joyful.
I happily pay for 9th version if it includes AI generated drum and base for guitar tabs.
It doesn't need to be perfect as everyone knows how weird would be results ( I am thinking about Spark app from Positive Grid when I righting these).

Some special edit functions like copy pasting from a string to another would be also sweet ( when you write something for 2 hours and then you find out that you write on wrong string)

A forum or a server for uploading your saved tone or pedalboard setting to others would be nice.

I've used Finale for many years, and while I continue to use it, Guitar Pro is faster and easier to write guitar specific music. Some of the nuances of guitar playing are time consuming and confusing to write in Finale, whereas Guitar Pro is much more user friendly in that area.

My only complaint so far is formatting the page layout how I like it. Finale has a lot of control in that area that I've grown accustomed to. But, hey, I'm still new to Guitar Pro, and have a lot to learn. Overall, I am very happy with my purchase.