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How to Use Guitar Pro 5 With Audacity

Guitar Pro 5 is a software program designed specifically for generating guitar and bass tablature. You can also write drum tablature and sheet music. So with Guitar Pro, you can write all of the instrumentation for a song and listen to audio samples. Audacity is a freeware audio editing program. It is possible for Guitar Pro 5 audio samples to be imported into Audacity as WAVE or MIDI files. Audacity can be used to create MIDI files, which can be read by Guitar Pro 5 and converted to tablature or sheet music.

Things You'll Need

  • Guitar Pro 5
  • Audacity
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Instructions

  1. Export Guitar Pro 5 WAVE File

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      Open the Guitar Pro 5 file to be converted into a WAVE file. This file format will preserve the Realistic Sound Engine (RSE) tone of the audio preview if the RSE option is turned on.

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      Open the “File” menu.

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      Highlight "Export" in the File menu to open a sub-menu.

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      Select “WAVE…” from the export sub-menu. The WAVE Export window will appear.

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      Press the “OK” button on the WAVE Export window. The save prompt will appear.

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      Press the “Save” button once you name the file. The WAVE file has not been generated yet. This only creates the target file for the WAVE recording from Guitar Pro 5.

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      Press the “Play” button to start the WAVE recording. This is the button used to generate the audio preview when using Guitar Pro 5.

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      Wait for the entire file to play through or press the “Stop” button. You can start and stop the WAVE recording at any point in the sheet music. You are not limited to creating the entire file as an audio file. The WAVE will be saved at the point where the song is stopped or stops playing.

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      Open the “File” menu in Audacity.

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      Highlight “Import” in the File menu to open a sub-menu.

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      Select “Audio…” from the sub-menu.

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      Select the WAVE file recorded in Guitar Pro 5. It will open this file in Audacity. You can now edit the Guitar Pro 5 file as though it were an audio file.

    Export Guitar Pro 5 MIDI File

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      Select “MIDI” from the Export sub-menu in the Guitar Pro 5 File menu. The save prompt will appear.

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      Press the “Save” button after naming the file. The entire Guitar Pro 5 file will be converted into a MIDI file.

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      Highlight “Import” in the File menu of Audacity.

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      Select “MIDI…” from the import sub-menu.

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      Open the MIDI file created in Guitar Pro 5. It can now be edited in Audacity as though it were an audio file.

    Export Audacity MIDI File

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      Open the Audacity file to be converted to MIDI for Guitar Pro 5 to read.

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      Open the “File” menu.

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      Select “Export MIDI…” from the File menu. A save prompt will appear. This option will be "disabled" if Audacity is not capable of exporting a MIDI file from the currently opened file.

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      Open the new MIDI file in Guitar Pro 5. Highlight “Import” in the File menu to open the import sub-menu. Select “MIDI…” from that sub-menu. The import MIDI window will appear after you select the MIDI file to import.

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      Press the “Import!” button on the import MIDI window. Guitar Pro 5 will automatically convert the MIDI file from Audacity into sheet music.

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