You can get guitar pro for free thou- ohsnap

I'm personally someone who is not a non-desktop maniac so I wouldn't be able to see how well the program works on something else than my laptop. I'm not playing guitar for now anyways so I'm def not the best beta tester, busy with other things lately. In my case GP has been sufficient pretty much but maybe other members will give it a shot. The idea of permitting guitarists to access their tabs through other utilities than a computer is a good initiative. Good luck with the continuation.

I want to view my GP files on my toaster >:

Hakoria said

The idea of permitting guitarists to access their tabs through other utilities than a computer is a good initiative. Good luck with the continuation.

Glad it caught your interest! Canary works great on computers too actually. Our killer feature isn't our mobile app; there are good ones out there already. It's the integration of all platforms -- desktop, laptop, tablet, phones -- into one simple, slick package.

I want to view my GP files on my toaster >:

We're still working on this, but if you're impatient you can duct-tape an iPhone to your toaster ;)

If you're going to pay for program to compose music buy finale.

Guitar pro sucks anyway specially GP6. Just download GP5 or get tuxguitar. GP is just recommended because of how popular it became and the amount of tabs it has.

I'll give it a try and return with delicious feedback.

I know you signed up just to post this, and I know it's technically an advertisement, but thanks for posting it anyway :-) I think it probably needs some work, but there's a definite need for alternatives.

I tried uploading two tabs for songs I wrote, Johnny and Lab. Here's what I found:

• Triplet feel. The first GP5 I uploaded has an eighth note triplet feel, and that displays correctly on the page, but when I click play, it's played as straight eighths.
• I can't play the song again. After the song finished once, I hit play again, and nothing happened. I had to reload the page to get it to play again.
• Repeating a section. It'd be cool if you could highlight a section and repeat that section. If you're practicing something, it sucks to have to take your hands off the instrument every 4 measures to reach for the mouse.
• Scrolling when changing instruments. When you switch instruments, it should automatically scroll to the current measure. Right now, it scrolls automatically if the song is playing, but only when it reaches the next measure.
• Keyboard shortcuts. You need keyboard shortcuts. Since you're making a minimal tab player for practice purposes, you don't necessarily need tons of them, but at a minimum you should be able to switch instruments (up/down), measures (right/left), jump to the beginning/end of the song (home/end), play and stop playing (space) using the keyboard.
• More screen views. A "horizontal screen view" would be nice.
• Key signatures. Please support key signatures! My first song loaded in C, but it should be in A, and you discarded the accidentals I wrote in. Sometimes that's no big deal, but with other tabs, it could make it pretty hard to read! The second song I uploaded should be in E flat. Seeing a bunch of G sharps and G naturals and no As makes it quite hard to read! They were written correctly in the GP5 I uploaded.
• Bass clef. Please support bass clef! Here's what the second song looks like on your site. And here's what it looks like in Guitar Pro. The former is unreadable, and the latter is fine. This stuff makes the sheet music incorrect, even if the right pitches are technically represented on the screen.

Anyway, best of luck!

EDIT: Reformatted into a list to make it easier to read, I hope.

auriplane said

I know you signed up just to post this, and I know it's technically an advertisement, but thanks for posting it anyway :-) I think it probably needs some work, but there's a definite need for alternatives.

This is a really, really good list. Thank you so much for the thought and effort! I've noted down everything in our issue tracker and will get to work on the fixes/improvements.