[Guitar Pro 8 tutorial] How to use the audio track

[@edusto]

I've been using guitar pro for 20+ years. It is part of my story. This new feature is tremendous. Amazing job, guys. Glad to be part of the family

[@guitarpro]

Thank you very much, we appreciate it!

[@fourtwothree5422]

I only found out about this feature recently. I've using it non stop since. Amazing work by the Guitar Pro team.

[@arireview4510]

Been using guitar pro for almost 20 years, it made me learn how to olay and perform! Love it

[@guitarpro]

Thank you very much, we appreciate it! ❤🙌

[@DaveShindig]

Just stopping by to say that the audio track feature is insanely powerful and useful. I've been using it to transcribe music that hadn't been tabbed before. Mainly wacky mathcore stuff. (Daughters - Canada Songs) Using the panning/eq features on your virtual instruments/audio tracks/master is also extremely helpful for transcribing hard panned dissonant madness. The padding layout and functionality allow for some super accurate beatkeeping. Seriously. I was able to transcribe songs that were recorded to a drum track and NOT a metronome. How crazy. Thanks, Arobas.

[@guitarpro]

Thank you very much! I have shared your comment with the Guitar Team. We are very happy these features help you! Thomas

[@MasterMojo85]

This feature really i a game changer. Adding the real vocals to your tabs just makes it so much more fun to practise.

[@guitarpro]

Thanks!

[@thekeytoguitar9161]

How do you add real vocals to your tab?

[@8981USMC]

Excellent video. I use this all the time to import song to play along on the bass!

[@guitarpro]

Thank you David! 🙏

[@DeutschlandGuy]

It's important to note that if an audio track is not perfectly consistent during repeated sections, such as verses or choruses, or if it includes a "go to coda" in the score, syncing the score with the audio throughout will be unfeasible. This is because a performer may vary the timing slightly on repeated song sections. Therefore, even if the first verse is perfectly synced, subsequent repetitions may fall out of sync. A workaround is to create a new GP8 file without any repeats or "go to coda" sections in the score. The song should be written out completely from start to finish in an uninterrupted score. This approach may extend a 3-page score to 6 or 7 pages due to the absence of repeats. However, this method ensures that once completed, the score remains in sync throughout the performance, regardless of repeated sections. As of June 2024, GP8 does not offer the feature to mark audio sections according to the number of times they are played in the score. It would be beneficial if future updates included this feature. Until then, for songs with timing variations in repeated sections, the score must be laid out in a single, continuous sequence without repeats. You are welcome. 😋

[@alexbokelund7770]

Yes, thank you for that comment! Unfortunately I'm facing the same problem. As soon as I include "Repetitions" my sync points, get messed up. Love GP8, really great tool and I recommend it - only thing I would love to be added is some kind of "the sync points will stay, also if I add repetitions etc." button

[@guitartabvideo]

It would be great to add -"tap tempo" button to sync during playing audio, like in soundslice

[@lunekotar]

I'm happy to be a new customer. This is very helpful!!!

[@guitarpro]

Thank you very much Luca!

[@skirwan78]

the audio track is amazing it really helps combine things into one place and you can change the mix to see how things are lining up. It also allows for small corrections to tabs other people have made when you really zoom in.

[@guitarpro]

Thank you very muc. 👍🙏

[@eugeniocapodicasa6949]

Very well explain, Thank's from Montréal

[@EtheRenard]

Do you know if there'll be a better orchestra RSE in the future? Or should I give up on GP and start using a DAW with VST instead?

[@guitarpro]

Hi, we hope to improve the sound banks in future GP upgrades, but that's not for the immediate future.

[@alexbokelund7770]

Thank you GP8 for this wonderfull software. Really love it - I have one suggestion though: As soon as I include "Repetitions" my sync points, get messed up. I would love to be have issome kind of "the sync points will stay, also if I add repetitions etc." button. The only solution I found so far is to make a GP8 File WITHOUT any repetions (dal segno etc.), which is not so optimal, because I would like to save myself some pages and make the sheet easier readable

[@guitarpro]

Hi Alex, we suggest making the structure beforehand and fitting the synchro points once the structure is fixed. Sorry, we take note but we won't have better solutions now.

[@danielcashguitar]

Super useful tool. One thing I wish it had though was the option to adjust the GP8 tuning frequency rather than changing the frequency of the song. I transcribe a lot of old guitar songs and I want to keep the guitar tuning to the frequency that can be heard on the record rather than retune the songs to 440.

[@ChristopheGaucheMusicien]

Ça change tout c’est génial, une fonctionnalité qui pourrait nous faire gagner encore plus de temps ce serait d’avoir une touche raccourci pour créer les points de synchronisation ( en mode tap tempo)

[@pixpusher]

Amazing feature. Thank you!

[@gathda]

Nice upgrade.

[@TroyNaumu808]

So this new feature makes Guitar Pro more like a DAW or close to it, right?

[@Guitareal]

This is a great feature. I'd like a feature pretty simple. I'd like to add color to certain notes. For example I'd like to put certain notes in red, let's say I want to teach my students where the musician used the M6 of each minor chord, so when they see this highlighted note they could easily understand what I mean. It's a simple feature but very useful, especially in jazz transcriptions where there is a lot to highlight.

[@djashjones]

I'm learning the drums and I find this a great tool. I sync my backing track bar by bar from the very start. What I would like to see is a better mixer. The levels indicator is too small and you have no idea what the levels are. Even using a mouse to set the volume levels are clunky and you can't enter the value via the keyboard. I gave up trying it on a trackpad. I would also like to see the metronome settings being stored in the project file rather than globally set!

[@guitarpro]

Hi Ash, thanks a lot for your feedback and your cool suggestions! 👍

[@nachointhebox_]

Please make possible to add sync points by tapping a key as the song is playing, instead of dragging manually one by one. It takes forever if the song is long and not recorded with metronome

[@lynxfilante]

Hey, thanks for the video. Can the audio be slowed down in the program?

[@guitarpro]

Thank you, yes of course, you can slow the speed of the score. You can try Guitar Pro 8 for free for 7 days to check it out: www.guitar-pro.com/download-guitar-pro 😉

[@lynxfilante]

@@guitarpro I already bought Guitar Pro 8, thanks. I'm aware that you can slow down the score by adjusting the tempo, but I mean slowing down the audio file itself? For transcribing intricate fast runs for example.

[@duesenberger]

Thx for this video! I was really looking for the audio features, but I am somewhat disappointed. I really would like some wizards help me with synchronization. But to me it seems all manual and as a beginner I am still lost. F.e. why can't GP8 set the bars for the song for me?

[@guitarpro]

Hi Adrian, thank you for your feedback!

[@RafaelSequera]

Soundslice have this option already and much advanced, you can sync video or any audio, even add several stems to the score... hope Guitar pro improves this feature as it is very basic now...

[@johnmac8084]

This is a great addition. Can you also get it to show video as well? For many years I have used Guitar Pro in conjunction with Transcribe! (by Seventh String) which works with GStreamer to display video on Windows, Mac & Linux. It would be great to do it all in GP without having to switch between programs for video as well as audio, thanks.

[@simplelivingisfun7646]

audio tracks is really amazing.. superb.. but how to make a mulitple audio tracks in a single project?, thanks

[@MichaelBagge]

Excellent thanks for sharing. 👍

[@yaqubstutorials4232]

hi there, i have been using Guitar pro for very long time now, i am loving it. thanks for the great product. i have a request if you could include in future update or may be it already features but don't know how to do. what i would wish is , if we can split drum track hi hat and kits like we could split in piano bass and treble clef. if there a way to do this? if not i think most user would love such feature. thank you.

[@nathanm5909]

How can I slow the audio file so its in time with the tempo (BPM) of the guitar tabs? Is this easy to do or are there a few steps involved?

[@cesarmalespins]

Thank you very much David, for your precious contribution. I'd like to thank you for the 5 video tutorials on the Blues. They are super! I just wanted to ask you if it is possible to insert several audio tracks, because I have searched for it and I have not succeeded. If I insert another track, it deletes the one that is already in the file and remains at zero. Thank you very much in advance.

[@guitarpro]

Hi César, it's possible yet to inser several audio tracks into Guitar Pro 8. Thanks. Thomas

[@adikservitola]

@@guitarpro I'm sorry. You meant NOT possible YET? I can't find it as well

[@PatAutrey]

how do you isolate the vocal from an audio track in GP 8, allowing you to hear and include only that vocal in your new transcribed arrangement?

[@Psyclonus7]

Can this program transcribe the guitar part if I imported audio? If so, how?

[@Wolf4u2]

Can you provide a link to your chair?

[@TheRobphobos]

Looks incredibly useful ! Is it possible to change the tuning of the tab ? (ie the original song is 425Hz tuning but the tabs are always 440Hz)

[@guitarpro]

Thanks a lot! No, this feature is not available yet, but it's something we have in mind yes.

[@TheRobphobos]

@@guitarpro Ah that's really awesome! What I've done for now is utilise the mp3 feature (which is amazing!), and used the cents knob to roughly tune the mp3 up. It's not exact but certainly good enough for practicing 👍

[@pauld2004]

Came here specifically for this commentary, as I'd purchased GP8 primarily for this feature.

[@grapefruitsimmons]

Its stupid that you cant just move the audio track over without stretching

[@julienpierrevidal]

If you create a project with an embed audio track, will it work on the ios mobile app?

[@guitarpro]

No, it's not possible at the moment, but we hope to be able to do so in a future update of the app.

[@volodimir78]

unfortunately, I don't understand English well - please tell me can the program translate an audio file into tablature automatically or not?

[@gwenmollo]

Good video. But I wonder why you don't demonstrate the filter option...oh maybe because it's completely broken and unusable ... I also don't recommend to synchronize the beginning and after the end. Unless you have a very accurate track recorded with a drum machine, even if you start is good, the end is rarely on the marks. It surely add a lot of problems to re-synchronize all after that. I prefer my method : first the intro, and after go for the beginning of all the verse/chorus/solo/outro... This could save you a looooooot of time...

[@guitarpro]

Hi Gwen, please contact our support team if you encounter problems with the filters: support.guitar-pro.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thank you for your precious feedback. 👍

[@gwenmollo]

@@guitarpro I 'm a beta tester, I 've many contacts with the dev :)...

[@christopheseyler3512]

Please add the ability to include mutliple audio tracks (a global one like it currently is, or one per tracks)

[@guitarpro]

Hi Christophe, thank you for your suggestion, we are studying the possibility to do that. ;)

[@Archartugan]

Could I use this to add guitar pro drums to my recorded demo guitar parts and export this as mp3 or wav?

[@devallierepatrick7441]

Bonjour, Je ne parle pas l'anglais, pourriez vous traduire les vidéo de guitar Pro8, pour conprendre le fonctionnement de se logiciel. Merci Cordialement Patrick

[@lukegary4482]

Why not include ASIO audio pipes to be able to actually track into guitar pro?

[@patrickrushton]

Is there a way to just tap the keyboard on the downbeats to set sync points while the audio is playing? Dragging them into place is going to be a lot of work for songs with a tempo changes.

[@guitarpro]

Hi Patrick, this feature is not available for the moment sorry, but this is something we have thought about indeed. Thanks for asking. Thomas

[@mikedevlin2048]

When will the iOS version support Guitar Pro files with embedded audio ?

[@tron_town]

im playing a cover thats supposed to be at 109bpm. the original is at 101bpm. is there an easy way with guitar pro to shrink the 101bpm audio file to the 109bpm?

[@acaro75]

Ive created a score using GP8, and created a loop on Logic that fits at the intro (same tempo on both apps) . But GP8 just let me add this loop once. I can't copy this loop multiple times on my score. Is it possible to do something as easy as copy-paste loop audio it on GP8?

[@aarongabbard]

I just wanna drag and drop audio in and it just write the sheet music and tab out for me.

[@guitarpro]

That would be great indeed! ;)

[@aarongabbard]

Looks like I can using Melody Drop! Maybe Guitar pro 9 :)

[@thekeytoguitar9161]

I love that you can add audio commentary to the track...But HOW?! :-)

[@Gusmed007]

If I have a full band recording on any DAW, could I import each instrument audio track do the corresponding Guitar Pro project track? So any band member could practice muting his track and looking at his score?

[@bassgitab]

Can you give sample exercise with the simple song.

[@a-fox]

When zooming in on audio track it doesn't remain zoomed... this makes it near impossible to to align the sync points to the track.

[@joshuax2591]

When can we record a track?

[@RafaelSequera]

Syncing live recordings with this feature is a nightmare, it should work fine with studio recordings that are already synced to a fixed BPM...

[@Lukkern]

It's a FANTASTIC feature. HOWEVER! It makes guitarpro crash extremly often for me. Most of the time it happens when i try to undo a decision, actually it happens around 95% of the times i do this. Especially if it's a song longer then 5 minutes, and definitely if i try to tab a 10+ minute song. It also happens randomly and when i'm working with tempo changes, Please look into this and fix it! It will save me lots of time as i save very often, but not often enough when it comes to how often it crashes.

[@guitarpro]

Hi thanks a lot. Please contact our support team they will check this out. You can even send us your Guitar Pro file: support.guitar-pro.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[@darkvampire9529]

Hi! When i import an Audio Track i have no sound. When i open a project and import an Audio Track, i have sound from the project but not from the Audio Track. Do you have an idea what the problem is? i am using a focusride Audio Interface that works fine with other Audio Software, like Cubase. Thank you.

[@guitarpro]

Hi, please talk with the support team here, they will help you figure out the problem, thanks: support.guitar-pro.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[@ElcanaldeReyesManuel]

Nice video

[@guitarpro]

Thank you!

[@jerrydelacruz5119]

Can the audio track playback be slowed?

[@nathanm5909]

I want to know this too!

[@BassJazz]

Hello Ils exactly what I need in gp8 But in english it’s not easy for me Can you do the same in French please Thank you so much for your sharing

[@guitarpro]

Bonjour Philippe, nous allons ajouter des sous-titres en français dès que possible. Merci.

[@guitarpro]

Nous avons ajouté des sous-titres en français. Vous pouvez également consulter ce tutoriel sur notre blog : www.guitar-pro.com/fr/blog/p/36336-comment-ajouter-une-piste-audio-a-vos-partitions-tuto-guitar-pro-8

[@BassJazz]

Merci Beaucoup C’est vraiment excellent et à la demande Avec ça si je n’y arrive pas ! Toujours des tutos excellents MERCI

[@guitarpro]

@@BassJazz 😉

[@isuckatguitar6252]

I've been syncing tracks with Guitar Pro 8 fine, what I can't do is figure out how to get the audio track volume controls he has at the bottom up on mine, does anyone know?

[@daviddahl8562]

where have you been all my life😀

[@Matvei222]

The idea is good. But, the implementation is extremely crude. 1. automatic audio to midi conversion. Now this feature is available in all music software, Logic Pro X, Melodyne and so on. I don't understand why it's not implemented by default. 2. Why is there a restriction on the use of only one audio file? I have a lot of solos in DAW that I need to transcribe, I need to be able to keep each solo on a separate track in Guitar Pro. 3. You have made filters to change the sound of an audio file. Why didn't you implement the functionality that transcribers use? This is, for example, subtracting the middle of the spectrum of the mix, so you can, for example, remove the kick, snare, and bass, and it becomes more convenient to transcribe guitars that sound in a double track with panning. Or you need a karaoke-type functionality, that is, a vocal removal function so that you can listen to the arrangement without vocals, and so on. Do some research on what kind of instrumentation transcribers use, especially not those who have perfect pitch, but those who professionally alter an audio file to make specific instruments audible. This will be a good list for you in the backlog for implementing the necessary functionality.

[@petepalmer6929]

Can someone tell me how to make the guitar sound like an actual guitar?

[@cosminchisu6205]

I would also like to know how it's done... 😀 I've been using GP for over a decade and still can get a more realistic guitar tone to this day.

[@fradomenico5030]

next step now could be ,extract one instrument from the audio track, and write it automatically....dreaming ?

[@jbongiov]

Désolé, pour ce qui me concerne, le tuto est impossible à suivre car, bien qu'il soit sous-titré, il est entièrement en anglais. Si on ne maîtrise pas suffisamment l'anglais, on est obligé à la fois de lire le sous titrage et de regarder "en même temps" ce qu'il se passe à l'écran. C'est à vomir ! 🤣😉 Et en plus, ça va vite ! Désolé, c'est pas exploitable. J'essaierai de trouver tout seul.

[@guicijomusicstudio]

Merci de faire des tuto en français, car guitar pro 8 est français !!!!!!!

[@guitarpro]

Bonjour, nous allons ajouter des sous-titres en français dès que possible. Merci.

[@guitarpro]

Nous avons ajouté des sous-titres en français. Vous pouvez également consulter ce tutoriel sur notre blog : www.guitar-pro.com/fr/blog/p/36336-comment-ajouter-une-piste-audio-a-vos-partitions-tuto-guitar-pro-8

[@jeandesrosiers8229]

Very usefull to sink a backing track with scores and record an mp4 from it in horizontal running view. Sorry some lawyer at my door!!!

[@carytodd3368]

PЯӨMӨƧM 😝

[@micheldenostredame5361]

If you are not "PRO" musical, do not buy this piece of crap software... it's can't transcript your melody mp3 file to the tab automatically... when you use this scam software it will make you feel like: you play CD player and you take a piece of paper and pen to write your melody of you hear from CD player to paper manually...😐

[@vvcv__00]

thanks for giving me reasons to NOT BUY this software. Such a bad demo.