THE BEST SOFTWARE FOR GUITARISTS
COCKOS REAPER
REAPER is a complete D.A.W digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more.
From mission-critical professional environments to students' laptops, there is a single version of REAPER, fully featured with no artificial limitations. You can evaluate REAPER in full for 60 days. A REAPER license is affordably priced (only $60) and DRM-free.
Neural DSP
Neural DSP offers simply THE BEST D.A.W plugins for guitar….Enough said.
If you have ever tried amp sim plugins and been less than impressed? I would Strongly suggest trying anyone of the plugins on offer, anything from the luscious delay/reverb infused cleans and overdriven sounds of the Archetype: Plini to the very funky Archetype: Cory Wong or perhaps the more authentic vintage blues/rock tones of the Tone King Imperial MKII to the complete face melting Archetype: Gojira.
Try a free 14 day trial of any Plugin now (trust me… it’s worth it)
GUITAR PRO
Guitar Pro is a software program available on Windows and Mac OS that allows all musicians to read, write and share their tablatures. The world leader in tablature editing, Guitar Pro has been downloaded over 15 million times worldwide since 1997.
The software is compatible with many instruments such as guitar, drums, bass, piano, ukulele and many others! You can make tablatures for each instrument, scroll the music score, write your music and use many pedagogical tools such as a chord dictionary or a scale library. Transposition features are also available to easily transcribe your songs from one instrument to another.
Whether you're a music teacher, a transcriber, a composer, a songwriter, a tablature book editor, a solo musician or in a band, Guitar Pro adapts to all your needs, and saves you precious time in making progress on the guitar or any other instrument.
The Guitar Pro software suite is also available as a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android. You can thus use your tablature player or your tabbing application on all your devices: computer, tablet or smartphone.
Guitar Pro tablature software is free for the first 7 days. Don't hesitate to download it for free to make your own opinion!
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