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Guitar Pro 6 is finally released, April 5, 2010

The Arobas Music Team is happy to announce the release of a sixth version of its software Guitar Pro, after more than three years spent in development.

An entire rewrite, this new version is truly a major evolution for Guitar Pro, with its new interface and completely redesigned ergonomy. Characterized by a soberer presentation and leaving more room to the score, access to the various editing and sound-setting tools has been made optimal via a side-panel. You can now open several documents simultaneously, create them from templates, and edit them in full-screen mode.

Many new musical symbols appear along with the possibility to edit over 4 voices, which thus improves writing generally for fretted instruments as well as other types of instruments – such as the piano with the grand staff. Other symbols like the “slash” notation, or multirest and simile signs now help make the score look lighter. A stylesheet has also appeared, for the user to customize his/her scores’ looks entirely, in classical or jazz style, and with 70 setting parameters. You can even adjust the sizes of measures by hand with the “design” mode.

As for the RSE (Realistic Sound Engine), a huge leap forward has been made. The soundbanks benefit enormously from being studio-recorded, they include many articulations (thumb, index finger, pick…), tempo is perfectly stable, uploading is almost instantaneous, and you can customize playing styles (fingerpicking, slap, etc.). The RSE opens up to non-fretted instruments by offering over a hundred soundbanks and fifty effect-simulators, many ready-made presets, as well as the possibility for you to create your own effect-chains. The whole thing amounts to 1.8 GB in sound-files, and some additional banks will be added in the near future. What’s more, a new Automations window simplifies editing for changes in tempo, volume, and panoramic.

Beyond all of those new features, Guitar Pro 6 retains and even improves on the user-friendliness that has made its success so far.

Guitar Pro 6 is natively Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible – available in its trial and full versions (download or DVD-ROM), on www.guitar-pro.com and in stores, at the fixed price of $59.95 ($39.95 for an upgrade).