Guitar Pro

While I use Guitar Pro all the time I really with this app was an editor rather than just a reader. I would have paid triple for an editor. The only thing you can do with this software is change voices of instruments, track amplitude, and tempo. Musicians on the go don’t want to just practice away from the computer. There are times where we collaborate with others and even just being able to write out new parts a collaboration has done, or even just jotting down some quick ideas would have been helpful. Even if they would take away the instrument voices. Do we really need more than one instrument voice per instrument on a phone app where you cannot write music in it? That was a stupid decision by Arobos. Add in the editor module and take out half those instrument voices. Users can go home and fill out the piece they are working on their computers with all the bells and whistles the desktop version has. Seriously I’ll pay upwards of $30-35 more than I already have to be able to edit in this app. Yeah I know I can edit a partial track. If the app doesn’t decide to crash when saving it and only saves first few bars if you’re lucky. If you guys at Arobos back off the player angle and bring on full editing capabilities, you would corner the guitar tab app market. Especially if a one time purchase. It would crush that garbage wallet stealer pro guitar by ultimate guitar scam.

I recently got a full desktop license for guitar pro and a paid subscription to songsterr to download my songs and take them on the go in guitar pro when I can’t be connected to the internet. But all of my files that work on desktop don’t work here. It seems like the app is trying to file the tabs not by filename (I always put ‘,The’ for artist names)but by the artist/songname metadata that you can add to it, the same stuff that appears at the top of the tab page. So I’d have to add that and save them all and then transfer them to my icloud again. But I don’t have time to add all of that, I transfered a lot of tabs to my icloud and even saved them to my local storage because the app doesn’t really read them from your cloud, which is fine because while I’d do that for a test, the best way is to have them locally saved to use offline. I’d say the desktop app works fine but this one, I can’t say because none of my tabs work, including some cool new ones that I made myself by modifying existing ones. The app probably does what it’s supposed to do when it works… but I wouldn’t know! When I go the artist section, I can see my custom tabs I’ve added as ]]>!CDATA[Nirvana ,for example… and then it says “file corrupted!” Also both versions need a dark mode for the actual tab sheets. Sometimes I’m okay with blinding myself at 2am but my pets are sleeping next to me, etc. Other similar platforms have long implemented this, and it is long overdue.

If you live in the Guitar Pro universe, you can use its browser and open all your files. However, if you’re a normal musician, you have PDFs, audio files, video files, PNGs sent from someone without a clue, and more. Because of this, using something like the native Files app is a better solution to manage your music. However, Arobas does not let the Files app set .gp* files to always open with Guitar Pro, so you tap a file to open it, then you have to share it with the app. Clicking “view info” on a file gives you no options to set, say, an older .gp3 file, to Guitar Pro as a default app. Because they’re likely trying to push their own format with their own mid file browser, they ignore this, making this a more difficult app to use for musicians on the go - or those that just like to practice with an iPad instead of a computer. Please update this. It is, otherwise, a wonderful app for on-the-go and for practice, but this annoyance makes me want to print every Guitar Pro file to a PDF and use that instead.