User manual AROBAS MUSIC GUITAR PRO 4

[. . . ] Guitar Pro 4 User Manual Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved Guitar Pro 4. 0. 8 User Manual - Last update: 02/27/2004 http://www. guitar-pro. com Table of Contents Table of Contents Part I General Information 4 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 Improvements and New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4 Technical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Lastly, it is possible to set the spaces between notes and the rhythmic proportionality coefficient. Three custom settings can be saved by clicking on the disks. Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 41 Using Guitar Pro Display Parameters for Each File: Work with the Score Guitar Pro allows you to view only a single track at once, all the tracks, or only some of them. The View > Multitrack View menu allows you to activate or deactivate the multitrack display. When the multitrack display is active, a checkbox is added to the Mix Table 45 next to the track number. The View > Vertical Scrolling and View > Horizontal Scrolling menus allow you to set the scrolling mode. The vertical scrolling mode is pleasing for one or two tracks, but starting with three tracks, the horizontal scrolling may be better. When in the vertical scrolling mode, the Options > Preferences [F7], menu, General tab allows you to set if the scrolling during the play is made staff after staff or screen after screen. The View > Standard Notation menu allows you to display or disable the standard notation. It is needed to define the notes position on the tablature (choice of the string), and many other notation elements like the effects are linked to the tablature. Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 42 Using Guitar Pro Work with the Score II. 2. 4 Configure the Sound Sound Quality: Guitar Pro uses the MIDI output of your sound card to render the score. It is a protocol, an universal language, allowing the communication of musical information between computers, synthesizers, sequencers, . . . . MIDI files consist of messages describing the score very precisely: notes, rhythm, instruments, . . . . The sound quality is closely related to the quality of your hardware (sound card, software or hardware synthesizer), and Guitar Pro has nothing to do with it. Guitar Pro is only sending pitch and duration information to your hardware, and the hardware produces the requested sound. In the same way, the list of available instruments in Guitar Pro is defined by the General MIDI specification, and is not extensible without using specific hardware. Sound problems: Depending on your sound card, you may hear cracks during the play. In this case, go to the display properties of Windows® (right click on Windows® desktop, Properties menu), select the Settings tab, and click on the Advanced button, select the Troubleshoot tab, and turn Hardware acceleration to None. MIDI Setup: Use the Options > MIDI Setup to setup your MIDI output. Guitar Pro allows you to use 4 MIDI ports at the same time. You should choose the best MIDI device for the first port, since it is the default one when you create a track in Guitar Pro. If you hear no Options > Windows sound, the device may be unusable, or muted. For the last case, use the Volume Control menu to unmute the device, or use another port. Depending on the selected device, you may choose a different instrument patch. The General Midi. gpp file is provided with Guitar Pro, but you can create your own list for the device you use (synthesizer, expander, . . . ). The Limit pitch variations checkboxes forbid pitch variations of more than one tone. [. . . ] See: Play the Score 45 See:The Metronome 70 Count Down Adds a one bar count down before playing. See: Play the Score 45 See: Insert Parameter Changes 45 45 45 45 57 27 Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 86 Reference Menus Playback During Editing Make the notes be played when your enter them. See: Play the Score 45 Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 87 Reference Menus IV. 1. 9 The View Menu Multitrack View Activates the multitrack display mode. See: Configure the Display 41 See: Configure the Printing 47 See: Create a New Score 13 Vertical Scrolling Activates the vertical scrolling. [. . . ]