Guitar Pro to MIDI free

Drop a .gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4 or .gp3 file and get a standard MIDI file: every track, with its tempo changes and time signatures, ready for a DAW.

Drop your Guitar Pro file hereor

Your file never leaves your computer. It is converted here, in this tab.

In short

SheetVideo converts Guitar Pro files in every version (.gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4, .gp3) to standard MIDI, keeping every track, the tempo changes and the time signatures. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded: there is no server on the other end that sees it.

What comes across

Every track (guitars, bass, keys, drums) or just the ones you tick, each with its instrument
Tempo changes and time signature changes
Drums on the General MIDI drum channel, so any drum plugin plays them
Every note at its pitch, with ties joined
Repeats and alternate endings, written out in the order they are played
The song title

What does not, and why

Strings and frets: MIDI knows the pitch, not where it is played
Bends, slides and vibrato are written as plain notes
Palm mutes and let ring
Lyrics and chord diagrams

Guitar Pro files, every version

Guitar Pro has changed formats several times: .gp3, .gp4 and .gp5 are the older binary files, .gpx came with Guitar Pro 6, and .gp is the zipped format of Guitar Pro 7 and 8. Tabs downloaded from Songsterr or Ultimate Guitar are usually one of these. All of them open here.

MIDI keeps what can be heard and drops what is about the hand: a note on the 5th fret of the A string and the same note on the open D string are the same MIDI note. If you need the tab itself in another program, convert to MusicXML instead, which carries the string and fret of every note.

The file is read in your browser and never uploaded: there is no server on the other end that sees it.

Questions

Which Guitar Pro versions are supported?

Is it free?

Do I need Guitar Pro installed?

Will the drums play right in my DAW?

Can I keep the tab?

Why these tools are free

They are pieces of SheetVideo

SheetVideo puts sheet music and tab on videos of people playing, lined up with the recording by listening to it. To do that it has to read every score format there is, and write them out again. These pages are those readers and writers, opened up. The video is the part that is paid, and only for full-length exports without the small mark.

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