Attached tutorial: guitar pro tutorial
Friends who love computer music know that piano keyboard has always been used as a virtual input device in computer music production, and editing and modification are mostly done by staff and keyboard display. Among the users of music software, many are guitar lovers, and the way they create music is usually guitar-based, which brings great trouble to guitar players who are not familiar with keyboard and staff. Now, we have ushered in the era of guitar PRO, a 6-line music production software with guitar as the core. Whether it is input, editing, observation or modification, all kinds of playing skills and techniques are tailor-made for guitar, which definitely gives guitar lovers a surprise!
Guitar PRO was developed by aro bas(www.guitar-pro.com). Compared with the previous version, Guitar Pro has added many new functions, which can be called a very mature guitar music production software! The biggest advantage of Guitar PRO (hereinafter referred to as GP) lies in the convenient 6-line spectrum display, which not only brings convenience to observation, but also prints high-quality guitar scores. GP also supports external MIDI signal input. If you have a MIDI guitar, you can have a great influence. Now you don't have to be bound by CAKEWALK! At the same time, the playback settings also support MIDI sound source selection, which overcomes the problem that the previous version can only use the default MIDI sound source, and it is very convenient to quickly change various sound sources for playback! In addition, GP also supports multi-track mode. We can use it to make guitar tracks, bass tracks and percussion tracks, so GP3 is a guitar-centered music production system, which can fully meet your various MIDI music production needs! Let's walk into the guitar world of GP!
(Track Properties)
After starting the software, we use OPEN to open a demo song in the GP3 installation directory. At this time, we can see that the screen is divided into three parts from top to bottom, the top is the notes and shortcut toolbar, the middle is the score display area, and the bottom is the track attribute area. The audio track attribute area specially added in 3.0 is designed by imitating CAKEWALK, which undoubtedly brings convenience to users who like CAKEWALK*. Among them, NAME and INSTRUMENT are used to set the track name and instrument, VOLUME and PAN are used to set the volume and pan position, and CHO, REV, PHA and TRE represent four commonly used effectors: chorus, reverberation, phase and vibrato. In addition to CH setting the main MIDI channel, GP3 also adds CH2 effect channel, through which different effects can be added to different tracks!
(shortcut toolbar)
In the score area, we can see the neat and clear 6-line score and the display of chords and lyrics. The method of editing and modifying notes is also very simple, just use the mouse to select the length of notes in the toolbar in the upper left corner, then click the left mouse button on the corresponding string and enter the location of a product. You can delete a note with the DEL key, add a bar with the right-click INSERT, set a triplet with the N-TRUPLET, and set a dotted symbol point. In the toolbar in the upper right corner, you can find the speed setting, time signature number setting, repeated opening/closing repeating area setting, etc. These options are very helpful for editing music scores and need to be mastered!
The method of adding chords in GP3 is also very simple. First, press the A key in the appropriate place to pop up the chord window, and then you can set any chord accurately here. There are many kinds of chords. There are major chords, seventh chords and ninth chords in each key, and there are also various corresponding transposed chords. After selecting any chord, it will show the corresponding taste and fingering, which is very intuitive. Through the chord setting of GP3, it is enough to meet all kinds of complex chord requirements. Just press OK at last!
(Chord window)
By choosing a note, we can add various velocity symbols, from PPP to FFF, or we can apply velocity symbols to the whole chord. Of course, sometimes it is necessary to add various playing skills to a note, and GP3 provides us with rich choices. Under the effect menu, we can use bending to enter the setting window of string pushing skills, where we can set parameters such as the amplitude and duration of string pushing, and use the play button to preview the effect after the action! Of course, other playing techniques include hammering/pulling, sliding strings, vibrato of left hand, vibrato of unlucky bars, decorative sounds of decorative sounds, natural overtones of natural harmony, artificial overtones of artificial harmony, tapping strings, tapping bass beats, dead sounds and strokes, etc., which are dazzling! These humanized playing skills will greatly enhance the flexibility of music and make it sound more colorful!
(rich playing skills)
GP3 is a multi-channel guitar software, so after editing an audio track, you can use the arrow in the lower right corner to change the audio track of other instruments. Of course, clicking the left mouse button on the track name can bring up its track characteristics window, where you can adjust the pitch, number of strings and options for simulating 12 string guitar effects. After adjustment, click the song title display directly below to enter the song information setting window, which records the song title, author, album, copyright and other information of this song. Press OK after confirmation.
In the preferences of the options, you can set various display fonts and colors of GP3, and you can also set the print size of the score. The port device of MIDI SETUP is used to set the four playback port devices supported by GP3, so that we can find their corresponding names in the port of the audio track properties. Play the space bar to see if the effect is different!
(MIDI output settings)
Under the Tools menu, GP3 has prepared several very practical guitar editing AIDS for us, which can help us improve our work efficiency and achieve the goal of getting twice the result with half the effort! Among them, the speed trainer is a variable speed training tool; You can increase or decrease the speed of each round according to your own requirements; TRANSPOSE is an automatic transmission tool; Automatic finger positioning can play the role of automatic fingering adjustment; Automatically check the sound length and duration of the bar; Bar arrangement automatically arranges bars; Complete/reduce bar with reset. You can complete or reduce bar notes with rest. In short, mastering these tool options of tools can bring great convenience to editing!
(Tools menu)
I have to admit that the appearance of GP3 has taken a revolutionary step for guitar lovers who have long been puzzled by the piano keyboard *, and they no longer have to rack their brains between the staff and black and white keys input. With GP3, everything is so arbitrary, because it takes you into a brand-new guitar world. I believe all guitar lovers can't miss such an excellent software. I wish you a good music as soon as possible!
Guitar-pro is a very popular software in the network at present, and almost every guitar website provides guitar music in GTP format. Moreover, the interface is intuitive with the six-line spectrum as the main input form. As long as you are familiar with the paper guitar spectrum, it is more handy for GP. For beginners, as long as you simply enter a score example on GP, it will be demonstrated and played for you immediately, and you can get twice the result with half the effort in practice. It is really a rare software for making guitar MIDI.
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