Guitar Pro 4 User Manual Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved Guitar Pro 4.0.8 User Manual - Last update: 02/27/2004 http://www.guitar-pro.com Table of Contents Table of Contents Part I General Information 4 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 4 2 Installation ................................................................................................................................... 5 3 Improvements and New Features ................................................................................................................................... 7 4 Technical ................................................................................................................................... 8 Support 5 Understanding Notation ................................................................................................................................... 9 6 Main Screen ................................................................................................................................... 11 Part II Using Guitar Pro 13 1 Write a Score ................................................................................................................................... 13 Create a New Score ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Add Tracks ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Manage Bars ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 Enter Notes ......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Add Symbols ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 Insert Parameter Changes ......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Add Lyrics ......................................................................................................................................................... 28 Add Markers ......................................................................................................................................................... 30 Use Cut/Copy/Paste ......................................................................................................................................................... 31 Use Wizards ......................................................................................................................................................... 34 Percussion ......................................................................................................................................................... 36 2 Work with the Score ................................................................................................................................... 38 Find Tablatures ......................................................................................................................................................... 38 Move in the Score ......................................................................................................................................................... 40 Configure the Display ......................................................................................................................................................... 41 Configure the Sound ......................................................................................................................................................... 43 Play the Score ......................................................................................................................................................... 45 3 Print a Score ................................................................................................................................... 47 Configure the Printing ......................................................................................................................................................... 47 Print Preview ......................................................................................................................................................... 48 Print ......................................................................................................................................................... 49 4 Import a Score ................................................................................................................................... 50 MIDI Importation ......................................................................................................................................................... 50 ASCII Importation ......................................................................................................................................................... 52 Import Other Formats ......................................................................................................................................................... 54 5 Export a ................................................................................................................................... 55 Score MIDI Exportation ......................................................................................................................................................... 55 ASCII Exportation ......................................................................................................................................................... 56 WAVE (audio) Exportation ......................................................................................................................................................... 57 BMP (image) Exportation ......................................................................................................................................................... 59 Guitar Pro 3 Exportation ......................................................................................................................................................... 60 Part III Tools for the Guitarist 62 1 The Chord Diagram Tool ................................................................................................................................... 62 2 The Scales Tool ................................................................................................................................... 65 Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 1 Table of Contents 3 The Fretboard ................................................................................................................................... 67 4 The Keyboard ................................................................................................................................... 69 5 The Metronome ................................................................................................................................... 70 6 The Digital Tuner ................................................................................................................................... 71 Part IV Reference 1 Menus 73 ................................................................................................................................... 73 The File Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 73 The Bar Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 75 The Track Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 77 The Note ......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Menu The Effects Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 81 The Markers Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 83 The Tools Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 84 The Sound Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 86 The View ......................................................................................................................................................... 88 Menu The Options Menu ......................................................................................................................................................... 90 The Help ......................................................................................................................................................... 91 Menu 2 Keyboard Shorcuts ................................................................................................................................... 92 Index 94 Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 2 I General Information Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 3 General Information Introduction I I.1 General Information Introduction Welcome to Guitar Pro! Guitar Pro is the ultimate workshop dedicated to the beginner as well as the advanced guitar player. It is aimed to helping the user to progress, to compose, or simply to accompany himself with the guitar. Guitar Pro has been designed for 4 to 7 strings instruments (guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, ...). Here is what Guitar Pro offers you: n A multitrack score editor focused on tablature. It's easy to use, includes most notation symbols and it's specifically designed for stringed instruments. It allows you to view and listen to the song, with an accurate rendering of guitar effects, and an optimized display for the computer screen. Tools aimed to assist the user on a day to day basis, such as the digital guitar tuner, the chord diagram engine, the scales tool, the fretboard display and more. Midi and ASCII Import/Export: Midi and ASCII Import/Export gives you the opportunity to take advantage of the thousands of scores available on the Internet in other formats. n n n Important Points: n Customizable screen In Guitar Pro, the screen display is fully customizable and independent of the paper view. This allows you to use the space available on the screen in the best way by selecting the tracks on which you want to work. n Customizable printing Guitar Pro's printouts are fully user-customizable and the printing style can be changed with a few clicks. n Synchronization Guitar Pro automatically adds the bars and provides synchronization between the tracks of the score. This strict synchronization is needed for proper sound rendering of the score and it can also be educational at the same time. n Interactive tools Each tool within Guitar Pro is closely linked to the active track properties. For example, if you opened the guitar tuner, it would give you the tuning chosen for that specific track. This makes Guitar Pro very powerful, and easy to use. Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 4 General Information Installation I.2 Installation Before installing Guitar Pro: If you had installed a demo version of Guitar Pro before purchasing the complete version, we advise you to uninstall the demo version by using the Start > All Programs > Guitar Pro 4 Demo > Uninstall Guitar Pro 4 Demo menu. If you have purchased an updated version of Guitar Pro (from the v3 for example), it is not necessary to install the previous version to install Guitar Pro 4. Also, version 4 is able to open every file created using a previous version, so you may want to uninstall the previous version. The minimum requirements in order to install Guitar Pro 4 is: n n n n Pentium 500 MHz (or equivalent) 64 Meg of RAM Sound card 10 Meg of free space on the hard drive Installing Guitar Pro: Insert the Guitar Pro CD-R ...