GuitarPro-to-Midi

GuitarPro-to-Midi is a cross-platform command line application for converting GuitarPro files to MIDI files.

Features

• Reading GuitarPro 3 - 5 Files (based on the open python pyGuitarPro project)
• Reading GuitarPro 6 Files (using a simple bitwise compression and an xml structure with dictionary and ids)
• Reading GuitarPro 7 Files (packed like a normal zip-file and using a very large xml structure)
• Transferring all files into a common native format that saves all (and only) the information that are interesting for midi files. I.e. a lot of information like fingering or guitar amp preferences are ignored.
• Splitting to a secondary channel for certain effects
• Exporting to Midi, trying to simulate the sound as best as possible: Simulating:
  • Different types of harmonics
  • Strum patterns
  • Bending - as far as the midi standard allows
  • Trembar - "
  • Volume knob effects
  • Muted notes
  • Vibratos
  • and perhaps more..

(I must mention that GuitarPro's native Midi export lacks far behind in this functionality!)

Please enjoy and create some great software with this!

Getting started

You can download a self-contained binary for Windows, MacOS and Linux in the release section of this repository on github.

Usage: GuitarProToMidi path/to/GuitarProFile.gp

The above command should create a file GuitarProFile.mid in the same directory as the input file.

Build and run from source

• Install dotnet core SDK (preferably at least v5.0)
• Run dotnet build in the project root folder
• Run dotnet run --project src/GuitarProToMidi.Console/GuitarProToMidi.csproj -- path/to/GuitarProFile.gp