Guitar Pro or Power Tab?

WernHalen · #1 December 28th, 2005

Ok, I know I am probably opening a can of worms but which do you guys prefer PT or GP? If seen GP but have not got too much experience with it... Pt I havent even seen...

allthumbs · #2 December 28th, 2005

If you have both you will have a ton of tabs covered. Powertab is free so you can print out tunes. G.P. won't unless you buy it for 50 bucks or so. G.P. has a lot more bells and whistles. Both have steep learning curves IMO, but then on off buttons are more my speed. G.P. has a downloadable demo so look at both.

Jean · #3 December 28th, 2005

I think they both do the same basic things, so go for the powertab software... The GP has an "electronic tuner" scales and other bells and whistles as althumbs said, the choice would really be up to you anyway.

allthumbs · #4 December 28th, 2005

In all fairness,GP5 has much better sounds than power tab.

Alfcarguy · #5 December 28th, 2005

Guitar pro good for making backing tracks to jam too. Haven't seen anything better than GP. You can take midi's and have drums and bass for backing tracks with GP also. I don't believe it will tab the guitar stuff right but not sure. Just us it to make backing tracks that means all the other instruments but the guitar stuff.

Jean · #6 December 28th, 2005

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Originally Posted by allthumbs

In all fairness,GP5 has much better sounds than power tab.

This would be expected. not being a freeware product.

allthumbs · #7 December 28th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Jean

This would be expected. not being a freeware product.

Actualy GP4 sounded just as bad as powertab. The 5 upgrade uses a new sound engine. Still not perfect,but a lot better than it was.

Jean · #8 December 28th, 2005

The 5 demo, also has pretty nice sound...

WernHalen · #9 December 28th, 2005

Thank you for the replies... I tried PT yesterday and everything looks very nice. I will download the GP5 trial version and see which i like best...

allthumbs · #10 December 29th, 2005

I would keep the powertab version too if only to access this site. It is the only purely acoustic site,I have found.
http://acousticpower.com/
AcousticPower.com -- free acoustic guitar tabs in PowerTab (acoustic tablature archive)

missileman · #11 December 30th, 2005

I use both, PT is somewhat easier to use, GP sounds better and has a keyboard feature that my daughters likes to use (this gives my daughter and I some songs to play together)
I am not sure of the current status of the PT archive for downloading songs, it was not accessable last time I looked because of legal issues.

r1p32 · #12 January 1st, 2006

i got power-tabs,which i love, but unless im wrong it doesnt seem to have a bass option, does guitar pro?

Alfcarguy · #13 January 1st, 2006

Bass huh what do you mean about bass option. To tab for bass or what? Guitar Pro seems to have it all. Laying down some mean bass tracks, tab, midi's whatever.

r1p32 · #14 January 1st, 2006

yea bass tabs, for power tabs. u have to pay for guitar pro?

WernHalen · #15 January 4th, 2006

OK I have had a look at both and am now able to give an opinion about both. Guitar Pro you have to pay for, but there is reason for that. It is an easier program to use and it has more features that make using the program user friendly. Guitar pro alows you to put down numerous tracks each with its own instruments, there are quite alot of instruments available. Drum tracks, string tracks, precussions, sax, trumpet etc its all there. What is nice is the fact that you can set the volume individually for each track and therefore mix the song to your requirements.

Power tab is a freeware program and was written acouple of years ago. there are a lot of free PT tabs on the net but they are not available at the moment, because of some legal squirmish. PT only alows you two instruments on a tab, guitar and bass. Changing the time i.e. speeding up or slowing down the song is difficult ( i havent figured it out and have given up trying.)

My final vote would propably be for GP seeing that the program is easy to use and alows more tracks. The fact that you are paying for the program is not very nice. Especially since i found out that if you own version 3 and would like to play version 5 tabs you need to buy version 5 again... Something like microsoft is doing with their software, but with GP you are not able to even open the next versions tabs with just some features disabled.