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by mattgreenrocks 1283 days ago
Do you miss anything from Guitar Pro in MuseScore?

I'm sick of paying for upgrades to GP in the hope that the next version is less bad than the previous version. It peaked at either 5 or 6 (I think) but they required Mac users to upgrade to get a 64-bit binary. 7.0 feels much slower (Electron?) and seems to insist on keeping your mic open for some silly feature.

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Guitar pro doesn't have as many features but it's a much better tool for rapid prototyping when you don't have a complete concept of the score in your head. It's easy to make continual changes on the fly using your keyboard without having to worry about the reflow, whereas muse score is incredibly stubborn about making sure that you have exactly the number of notes and durations in each bar.

When you're in a draft mode where are you just wanna be able to create it can be incredibly obstructive. I actually do a fair amount of prototype musical work in guitar pro before exporting it out as music XML and importing it into MuseScore for final typesetting.

GuitarPro 5 is an absolute masterpiece for quickly throwing together ideas. Version beyond 5 are just not worth it and I say it as someone who actually paid for 8.

Every piece of software I tried so far to replace GP5 has led me to return to GP5 within a couple of weeks.

TuxGuitar is fine for me.
TIL that the development of TuxGuitar has restarted