M4L & Guitar Pro

Hello @ all,

After writing my first patch with the help of TFL (thanks again to you!), which you can find here, I asked myself the question of combining Guitar Pro and Ableton Live.

I work a lot with Guitar Pro, but this DAW has its limits. Apart from tempo management, which I was able to integrate into Ableton Live via M4L, MiDi is very limited and can only be used to play other software or hardware instruments, no more, no clock management, no association with any kind of controller...

However, Guitar Pro is an excellent score editor. It's subjective, but it's very much geared towards string instruments, and percussion too, it's great for working and writing, it's inexpensive, and it's excellent value for money. Very well developed for bassists, with various types of writing for all types of playing, from slap to thumb, etc. Various tablature writing modes are available, and the sheet music fits in perfectly, it's made for playing. Drums are very easy to write. The pff editions are very easy, and so on... It's not made for voice or orchestra, but that's not what you want from it, and it's not for nothing that it's called Guitar Pro.Nevertheless, it's important to realise that today's stand-alone score editors, except for purists, are on the decline if they are not directly associated with a DAW worthy of the name. Cubase and Logic Pro are perfect examples of this, with their native score editors which, whatever the case, do exist and now just need to evolve.

Via my Patch, I now export my GP work files in .mid, import them into Live and I can work, but the playback cursor on the GP score no longer moves! And to select a batch of bars to work on in a song, it's much less simple in Live than in GP... could this be solved?

• Create a timer in Ableton and GP so that GP's cursor starts when Live is launched,

• Ability to select the bars to be played in GP (which are also selected in Live),

With these 2 points alone, plus the tempo patch, this is a GP that's almost a plugin!

I'll let you tell me what you think, and I'll give this little adventure a try...

Djé26