Guitar Pro 8 | What's new (2023)

Play along with your score with an audio file such as a song or a backing track.

Guitar Pro 8.1

New features

• SVG export (“File” > “Export” > “SVG…”)
• Numbered musical notation (Jianpu/simplified notation)
• “Free scores” mySongBook category
• mySongBook scores can now be sorted by last added
• MIDI export and import of audio note settings
• “Fit to width” and “Fit to page” options in the preferences
• Swedish translation

Playback

• Fix the timbre of some notes
• Fix the audio fine tuning offset on a slide
• Fix the unwanted vertical scroll on a repetition in horizontal display mode
• Update the audio when adding a slur between two bars
• When the playback stops by itself, the cursor correctly returns to its starting position
• Chronos are now independent of the relative speed and fixed tempo
• Fix the sound of trills on tied notes
• Fix the pitch of legato slides in MIDI
• Switch the metronome to MIDI when all tracks are in MIDI
• In MIDI with a soloed track, the other tracks are no longer heard on the first beat

Editing

• Fix a missing slur between two bars after undoing a string shift
• Fix the cursor behavior after using shortcuts to delete notes
• Fix the string shift from the banjo’s short drone
• Natural harmonics are no longer modified when shifting strings
• “Redo” is no longer enabled by default when opening a file

Engraving

• Fix the bend/whammy indications disappearing on playback
• Fix the misproportioned thickness of ledger lines outside of the staff
• Fix the glyph for jazzy accidentals
• Fix the jazzy repetition bars indication
• Fix a collision between piano fingerings
• Fix the fret and string number after a rest on slash notation
• Fix the crescendo indication in multivoice
• Fix the muted notes symbol when importing from XML
• Fix the double dots on quarters and shorter rhythm values
• Fix the grace notes position when using the “Bar Arranger” tool
• Fix the duplicate HoPo after changing the number of strings
• Fix the display of slashes at the end of systems

Interface

• Fix the value displayed on the progressive speed during a countdown between bars
• Fix the “Go To Previous/Next Bar” cursor command behavior
• Reinstate the “Move/Copy/Swap Voices” tool shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + M)
• The Virtual Drum Kit is no longer empty for the bongo and the reverse cymbal
• Keep the selection when changing tracks
• Fix the drag beyond the screen of the rotary knobs
• Updating the time signature correctly updates the audio track slice of the Global View
• Update the note name after a transposition
• Save the solo/mute states between sessions in the drum mix popup

Tools

• Fix initialising the scale diagrams dialog from a selection
• Editing the audio track padding from the first sync point correctly updates the audio
• An empty diagram is no longer displayed when using the “chord” command of the command palette
• Improve the audio preview for drumkits in the Track Wizard
• The güiro now has two articulations and is no longer on the same string as the surdo on the Africa Kit
• Fretlight guitar frets are correctly displayed on repeated bars
• Audio Fine Tuning is available for grace notes

Opening / Importing / Exporting files

• Fix the XML export for directions when the first bar is empty
• Fix the XML import for fingerings on tablature staves
• Fix the XML import for voices when there are several
• Fix the XML import for free texts
• Fix the MIDI import for slurs
• Remove of excess rests on MIDI import
• Fix the import of audio files containing special characters on Windows
• Fix the export of the audio track when exporting audio as separate files
• All backup files of the previous session are now correctly restored after a crash

Fixed crashes

• On importing a .ptb with a Coda
• On opening a .M4A audio file
• On opening a .opus audio file
• On updating the layout in multitrack
• On closing a file with a forced stylesheet
• On deleting chords
• On previewing an empty file
• On adding HoPo in tablature
• On MIDI import
• On disconnecting a Bluetooth headphone
• On copy-pasting sustain pedals
• On selecting empty bars with the keyboard

Guitar Pro 8.0.2

Playback

• Improvement of the support for high sampleRate on sound cards
• Application of the relative tonality on slides
• Restoration of the mono switch
• Update of the metronome when the time signature changes
• Fix of the audio track offset when changing the relative tempo

Editing

• Add of the sustain pedal undo
• Restoration of the application of the dynamics in the next bars
• Restoration of the chord transposition
• Deletion of the score tempo after deleting the point by double-clicking in the automation dialog
• Graphical update of sounds after track deletion
• Insertion of a beat does not add a sound anymore
• Fix of partial capo import and consideration
• Fix of chords transposition in a selection
• Fix of the application of the orientation of stems on a selection

Engraving

• Display of slurs on slashes in standard notation
• Display of HoPo in tablature according to the style sheet
• Hide courtesy on tied notes
• Fix of a regression on the clefs display at the beginning of the system
• Fix of design mode on last system and coda

Interface

• Addition of an alert message when locking a file
• Section text field is now case sensitive
• Improvement of effect parameters formatting
• Addition of an audio track does not force the saving
• Addition of the missing %MUSIC% tag in the classic style sheet
• Translation of fingerings in the right-click menu of the chord diagram editor
• Reset of sound displacement
• Addition of a character in the tempo automations label that does not send the cursor to the end anymore
• Fix of copy and paste of sustain pedals
• Fix of effects pasting in the effect chain
• Fix of the limiter pedal
• Fix of the audio track slice in the global view when changing the time signature

Open / Import / Export files

• Restore “force” options when loading files from the previous sessions
• Following of symbolic links in local files
• Fix of audio export without selection
• Take into account the volume of the metronome when exporting audio with metronome
• Reset of quantization to 1/64 when importing MIDI
• Fix of MIDI export with staccatos
• Fix of time signatures in MIDI export with an anacrusis
• Addition of the tempo decimal in MIDI import / export
• Fix of the rests position in the last bar in MIDI export
• Import and export of chords without notes in MusicXML

Miscellaneous

• Fix of a problem of software closing when a Fretlight guitar is connected

Fixed crashes

• on undoing
• on using Blackhole or SoundFlower drivers
• on software closing
• on effect modifying
• on refreshing audio devices

Guitar Pro 8.0.1

Enhancements

• Adds a menu entry “View > Show Pedalboard”.
• Adds the undo/redo on pedalboard effects
• Displays the empty chord diagrams
• Editing the chord diagram library marks the document as modified
• Fingering controls are no longer case sensitive in the control palette
• Takes into account effects before time (brush, slide in) at playback and loop launch
• Prevents system collision when there are many chords on the first page

Bug fixes

Audio track

• Fixes the MP3 file mismatch between Windows and macOS
• Fixes a bad MP3 loading due to MPEG parser
• Fixes a channel inversion in audio track in some cases
• Fixes the audio export of a selection with audio track
• Fixes the management of sync points in the presence of anacrusis

Chord transposition

• Fixes the naming of transposed chords
• Fixes the key signature on transposition key change
• Fixes the update of the chords at the top of the score when cancelling and after a transposition of all tracks
• Fixes the transposition of all staves if “current track” and “all bars” are selected in the transposition dialog
• Fixes the transposition of the chords of all tracks when this option is selected
• Restores the transposition of chords created from the command palette

Playback

• Fixes the slides out in presence of auto-brush
• Fixes the auto let ring duration
• Fixes the sustain pedal management in RSE and MIDI
• Fixes the MIDI let ring on two successive notes on the same string
• Fixes a random disappearance of sections during playback
• Fixes a partial disappearance of bends during playback
• Fixes the use of the ASIO Realtek Audio driver
• Fixes the sustain to stop at the last beat with pedal

Miscellaneous

• Fixes the unset command in the command palette for free text, double bar, free time, timer
• Fixes the cursor position when switching to single staff
• Fixes the layout of some dialogues where the text was truncated
• Restores the “Capo and transposed chords modify standard notation” option when opening a file
• Restores the display of triplet feel in a particular configuration
• Restores the application of the “modified” status for all actions modifying the document
• Restores the chord window and chords at the top of the score after cancelling a chord transposition
• Restores the display of long menus on several columns, preventing them to go beyond the screen
• Fixes various crashes, including when previewing sounds during playback, adding a legato slide, multi-voice selection, changing the orientation of stems, deleting a section, when opening a MIDI file, when adding an audio file containing a ‘#’, with the barred and arpeggio commands, when closing the software
• Fixes an issue with the installer PKG on macOS which unnecessarily required the installation of Rosetta