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Posted by: Suib Apr 11 2007, 04:19 AM

I noticed that you have a download for a trial period of a software called Guitar Pro and after 15 days you can decide weather you would like to buy it or not. Well, i have the software Power Tab and its free. There really is no apparent difference i can see besides the easy to navigate bottom display on GP. So i was just asking what you all think of these two softwares.:


Link for PT: http://www.power-tab.net/guitar.php
Link for GP: http://www.guitar-pro.com/en/index.php?pg=download


(For the power tab link you have to scroll down to where it says download now at about a quarter of the way down the page)

Posted by: Igorrr Apr 11 2007, 04:40 AM

Did not know of Power-Tab before you mentioned it.

I bought Guitar Pro 5 last year and looking at Power-Tab pro it looks like the main differences are:

- Multiple Tracks - Full Band playback (meaning you will have the tabs for all voices of the song)
- Loop and Speed Trainer
- RSE (Instead of Standard MIDI you have more realistic Guitar, Bass and Drum sounds) (although I practically never use it)

For sure there are some more, but these are my first impressions.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Apr 11 2007, 02:13 PM

QUOTE (Igorrr @ Apr 10 2007, 11:40 PM)

Posted by: Zee Deveel Apr 11 2007, 07:32 PM

'Cause one is good and one is not.

Besides, you can get any software for free if you know where to look.

Posted by: BalysLTU Apr 11 2007, 08:55 PM

QUOTE (Zee Deveel @ Apr 11 2007, 09:32 PM)

'Cause one is good and one is not.

Besides, you can get any software for free if you know where to look.

Posted by: AIB234 Apr 12 2007, 03:52 AM

Personally, I like PT better.

Simply because it flows when playing, it doesn't jump from note to note like GP. Granted, multiple trackness of GP is sweet.

Posted by: fkalich Apr 12 2007, 05:17 AM

QUOTE (BalysLTU @ Apr 11 2007, 08:55 PM)

Posted by: Ryan Apr 12 2007, 06:13 AM

O well free downloads is great with me ....I will only live once...so i dont want to spend my whole life trying to get the money to buy stuff...when its right there for free !!!!! cheap son of a ***** yea maybe but o well !!!!

now payin for gmc thats different.....

Posted by: boneT Apr 17 2007, 01:06 PM

this is my first post....i am not familiar with either SW program yet but I do know that without integrity in everything you will not be a GREAT musician. It is not possible. You may hit the note but the note will be
empty and without soul. So pony up and pay for the software. Pay your dues if you want to play the blues!

Posted by: Grae Apr 17 2007, 02:00 PM

been using Guuitar Pro 4 for a few years now, I enjoy the multi tracking as me and a friend sometimes jam and we both play guitar so with both tracks we can play different things

It does kind of play one note at a time though, rather than a sequence of note,s if you get what I mean, it's kind of ugly sounding.

Posted by: boneT Apr 17 2007, 06:32 PM

this is my first post....i am not familiar with either SW program yet but I do know that without integrity in everything you will not be a GREAT musician. It is not possible. You may hit the note but the note will be
empty and without soul. So pony up and pay for the software. Pay your dues if you want to play the blues!

Posted by: Leijon Apr 18 2007, 11:08 AM

I´m leaving the "pay-for-software" discussion for another thread and continue on the original topic.

If you want to use the .gp5 tabs without paying for the Guitar Pro software, you can use http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ which also is OpenSorce and is available for several OS:s (Windows, MacOS, Linux flavours). Though I don´t think it is on par with GP, I find it more than adequate for playing.

Posted by: blindwillie Apr 18 2007, 07:03 PM

Mmmm, thanks for the tip about tuxguitar! I'll lcheck it out because I like free stuff and use linux too occasionally.