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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Definition: MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface. 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 quality of the sound depends of the sound card. 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 can set a different MIDI device on each port. 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. Speakers buttons play a sound sample on the selected device. 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. Instrument patches are files containing a list of instruments. The General Midi. gpp file is provided with Guitar Pro, but you can create your own list for the device you use (synthesizer, expander, . . . ). These lists have no incidence on the sound and are just for display. The Limit pitch variations checkboxes forbid pitch variations of more than one tone. The low quality sound cards are often limited to such a variation. If bend or slide effects do not sound good, you may check this option. The effects that use a greater variation will not be played. Guitar Pro 4 User Manual - Copyright © 2004 Arobas Music - All rights reserved 43 Using Guitar Pro Ports and Channels: Work with the Score You can choose the Port and the Channels used for each track in the Mix Table 45 . [. . . ] See: Configure the Display 41 See: Create a New Score 13 Horizontal Scrolling Activates the horizontal scrolling. See: Configure the Display 41 See: Create a New Score 13 Toggle View Toggle the display between the edition zone and the mix table. See: Configure the Display 41 Fixed Spacing between Notes Make the spaces between notes fixed in the current bar. See: Enter Notes 19 Show 'Let Ring' Notes [F11] Displays Let Ring notes followed by ". . . ". [. . . ]