It’s difficult to point out faults with Guitar Pro, but having mentioned the cluttered interface, it could do with a facelift in the form of tabs or something similar that would better categorize and clean up the buttons scattered around the screen.

The extra dimension of a separate MIDI device lets you get ideas down much quicker while also giving you the ability to experiment with variations of a piece. Using the virtual keyboard or guitar, although tedious, will yield results when you want to compose something of your own, but for optimum results you can hook up your own MIDI device (such as a keyboard) and get cracking on tracks that are as simple or complex as you want. Getting the basics down is all well and good, but when it comes to composing or playing sheet music, Guitar Pro has it licked. Moving on, you can practice the large variety of scales that each come with a plethora of variations. Once prepared, you can get started on the individual note library that lets you visualize the fingering as well as listen to how they should sound.

The digital guitar tuner and the metronome are extremely handy to have and save you the bother of going out to buy them or of searching through your cluttered room for either. Some of the gizmos included in the software can actually come in useful and let you do everything from one place.

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