Overall Comments

Good application for creating and editing professional grade sheet music with full guitar tablature. Multi-track capable. Built in MIDI capability for playback of written scores. Gives audible feedback on each note entry. Great for composing original music, or for tabbing in music from recordings. Fairly easy to learn and use the many features offered. Well thought out user interface.

Now for the bad:

Guitar Pro is a memory and resource hog. It uses a substantial percent of the computer's resources, and it will run slowly if there are any other applications running. This limits its usefulness in that it would be expected to be used in conjunction with audio recording/editing software such as Audacity.

Guitar Pro also has problems with memory leakage. After about fifteen minutes of use, error warnings of low memory will begin to appear, and the application will become sluggish. (The error messages are in French.) Even after shutting Guitar Pro down, it takes Windows about five minutes to fully recover.

These problems showed up on three different computers that I tried Guitar Pro on.

Support from Guitar Pro regarding this problem has been useless. After about a dozen email exchanges with their customer support, describing the problems in detail, their final response was that they could not resolve my problem.

It is a shame that such a potentially useful application is rendered pretty much useless by software bugs and inadequate customer support. I have to give it a thumbs-down.

Overall Rating

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