MilletGtR wrote:

Another thing that I would like very much is the ability to select notes per string... (Now we can only select notes per beat.) For instance, there are many riffs thats played over the low E-string + the A string... Having the E-string palm muted all the time.

If you now want to palm mute the E string, youll have to either select the all the notes, or do them one at a time.. If you do all the beats, there are the notes on the A string that also gets Palm Muted, and youll have to remove them. If you do them one at a time it takes a while..

Or lets say you want all the Bass drum notes to be at forte fortissimo, youll also have to do one note at a time or select all the notes, including all cymbals, toms and snare beats.

If you were able to select a certain area both beatwise and string wise combined, it would take alot less time + give the tabber/composer much more freedom.

i see your point, but these examples you give are not valid as there is a tool that lets you PM only certain strings, & over either the whole track or a certain selection (Tools | Palm Mute Options...). Same goes with dynamics - for the drum track, as long as you take care to organise the various drums on the different strings (eg, bass drum at the bottom, cymbals at the top, etc) you can use the "Dynamics Options..." tool which allows you to choose the dynamic of an entire string. finally though you didn't mention it, the same menu contains a "Let Ring Options..." tool which works much the same way.

It would be very useful to have this feature in the next release.  I am disappointed that the software lacks it today.

Basically, I wanted to create my own, simple backing tracks to help with my gt lead practice, but I haven't been able to figure out yet. What I mean is, for example, I want to practice a solo which has a sequence of chords (Am, Dm, G, E7, Am) and genre of Chachacha. With that, I want to create backing tracks that have bass and drums, so I can play my solo along.

The new feature should provide a much easier method of doing so, instead of complicated steps like today's version.

Thank you.

Peter

Valgerd wrote:

A good improvement idea is that GTP could make you a cup of coffee while you are composing... you know, for those late night compositions

you press a button and then BANG! a coffee comes out from your dvd drive

plus if the programmers could add an "cigar" button on the software would be great too

you press the button and besides the coffee you got a lighted cigar... that would make my days better

Is it me, or do I sense a touch of cynicism here...?
For the cigars and the coffee I don't know, but the automatic generation of rhythm tracks is something that at least one competitive product does and that GP does not (yet).
And it is useful, me thinks.

I want it to be more accurate and intelligently track notes and rythm played through a MIDI device.  Right now, it only tracks and captures notes.  Let's say, I play 4 sixteenth notes in 1 beat.  GP captures them as 4 quarter notes in 1 measure, then it skips to the next measure.

BTW, when is the next release coming out?  I wonder why it takes so long for a new version to come.  5.2 comes out in Jan 2007!

Thx.

How about a DECENT Mac version ?

Well, I  had one problem some time ago which I'm trying to fix. I made a tab and I was sure it was ok, but then my guitar teacher made me realize that  the whole thing was bad because I didn't take into account the first note of the intro arpeggio started in the offbeat so the whole song was one beat ahead. So, I think for this particular problem it would have been nice if Guitar Pro had the option to move the whole score forward or backwards a certain number of beats.

That's all I can think of. The rest has already been said.

Last edited by Andrew85 (October 2, 2008 9:14 pm)

What you ask for is realtime recording.  It already exist with some more advanced software like ENCORE or FINALE.

The problem is mostly around the instrument itself (It has to be MIDI).  Guitar as it is played normally (like strumming) tends to be tricky for a program to understand as when you strum a chord for let's say a whole note the program would decode all those chords notes and write them as it is heard (one note after another) instead as a whole note.

Second point is timing.  In order to record an have a software write the music for you, you have to be sure that you play in sync with a given tempo otherwise the displayed results will need some corrections (like most MIDI imports).

mojo9o wrote:

You know how you can import a chord in? Or I think you can? IT should also show scales! That would probably be a good idea like different scales... or even better.

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This is already within GP just look closer ;)

You are right but again......if someone doesn't know about rhytmics and bars.....this someone wont be able to use quantize.....

There are some shortcuts to learn music but rhytmic is a must know for any kind of musician.   

Well... real-time recording would be cool indeed, but you need to know that you need the equipment, i.e. a MIDI keyboard or a MIDI pickup on your guitar and a MIDI card, a soundcard with a MIDI input or an adaptor that converts your MIDI out to USB or FireWire.

As for the bar overflow... Mangore's right man, learning music properly is the way to go. Plus it's a godsend when you're using tricky time signatures.

Wow, it takes all of that just for your mic to register sounds correctly? That sucks... actually. I wish it was easier than putting stuff that really wasn't ever made yet on guitar... or has it? Maybe it'd be easier if it only understood the standard tuning because I understand that it might be different... or depending on how it's designed that different tunings will have to be programmed into the system so why not just put one for now?

bumblebee wrote:

A mp3 import and export will be nice...

Well I read this post and I realized everyone inmediately thought of MIDI recording or MP3 to tabs converter.

But I think there should be an MP3 import in Guitar Pro, but not as a tool that magically converts it to tab, but simply as a sound track.

For example: normally when we are transcribing a song into a tablature we are constantly switching between Guitar Pro and the Media Player. I use Winamp. So I'm all the time pressing ctrl + tab to go from Gutiar Pro to Winamp back to Guitar Pro back to Winamp back to Guitar Pro and so on.... But if you could create a sound track inside Guitar Pro you could listen to the song and write notes in the same program. And you could even make your tab and your MP3 play simultaneously to see if they match tempo or key wise.

I got this idea from a program called Anvil MIDI studio which allows that option. Maybe it could be helpfull to for Guitar Pro users as well.

Andrew85 wrote:

bumblebee wrote:

A mp3 import and export will be nice...

Well I read this post and I realized everyone inmediately thought of MIDI recording or MP3 to tabs converter.

But I think there should be an MP3 import in Guitar Pro, but not as a tool that magically converts it to tab, but simply as a sound track.

For example: normally when we are transcribing a song into a tablature we are constantly switching between Guitar Pro and the Media Player. I use Winamp. So I'm all the time pressing ctrl + tab to go from Gutiar Pro to Winamp back to Guitar Pro back to Winamp back to Guitar Pro and so on.... But if you could create a sound track inside Guitar Pro you could listen to the song and write notes in the same program. And you could even make your tab and your MP3 play simultaneously to see if they match tempo or key wise.

I got this idea from a program called Anvil MIDI studio which allows that option. Maybe it could be helpfull to for Guitar Pro users as well.

YES!! That would be amazing!!