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 Very Disappointing, 2007-06-11
I was looking for a program that would turn my guitar improvisations into sheet music in real time. G7 sounded promising so I tried it with a Godin Grand Concert and a Roland GI-20 for pitch to midi conversion. The results were horrible. Even at slow tempos many of the notes were a sixteenth note off, even though they were played precisely on the downbeat. The metronome tempo was not reliably consistent. (I was running it on a PC with all unnecessary services disabled.) Arpeggios are horrible. If you've ever looked at a sequence of a guitarist playing arpeggios, you'll know it looks like a mess of overlapping notes. And that's what the notation of G7 looks like. It has a feature that is supposed to turn a mess like this into a monophonic line by removing overlapping notes. When you run it a warning message appears stating that you can NOT undue this operation! (Very poor design) When you do run it the results are less then spectacular. Often eight notes are displayed as two tied sixteenth notes with the ties above the notes when they should be below or vice versa.
1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
OK for certain uses, poor for others, 2006-09-01
You can scan in sheet music or import a midi file. That's cool. But editing after entry (even simple things like deleting measures at the end of the score) is not what this program was designed for.
If you like the feature of clicking on a picture of a guitar fingerboard to get notes or tabs into a progam, this program has some utility.
You should really try to work with a demo version first to see if this is what you wanted. I'm trying to arrange scores for jazz violin and guitar from generic midi files. G7 was not designed for that kind of use.
5 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
Poor quality , buggy, 2005-07-01
Great sales hype and graphics ...
Inside the box is a scrappy program and probably the worst user manual I have encountered for years .
The music scanning program simply does not work .
Operation of the main program is weird and illogical .Even the menus are stupidly organised .
Guitar MIDI input doesn't have the facility to channel your guitar strings . Hence , voicings are confused by the program .
Tab input is for standard tuning only AFAICS , not very flexible .
When you input from the virtual keyboard , either tab or notes appear , but not both ! ( why on earth not ?? ) .
Setting up your score to begin with involves selecting from a huge list of combinations of tunings and graphics .... this gets very annoying , very quickly .
There is pretty well zero user configuration here , so one cannot set about work-rounds for the worst of G7's stupidities .
My guess would be that this package was just cobbled together for the market .
The manual contains a few (pathetic ) pages entitled " How to Make it In The Music Business " .
I suggest the team at Sibelius would be better focusing on how to make useable useful software .
If you buy this rubbish , make sure you can return it .
3 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Extremely disappointed, 2005-06-23
I was extremely disappointed with this product and the Sibelius customer service. I expected much better considering the hype. Consider the following quote:
"G7 contains a complete interactive guide to guitars". Take a look at it folks, it miniscule with information you could get anywhere. A hyperlink does make something interactive folks.
As well, the whole business about including Kontakt reeks of the same hype. When I finally got it working it had 1 preset. Period.
As was mentioned by someone, scanning is useless. I have a new scanner and used clean published scores. It takes longer to correct the scanned score than it should to enter the score note by note with a mouse. You have to edit the scanned score using a dumbed-down version of the G7 editor before you can get it into G7. Even then it seems to drop measures requiring a lot of post scanning tweaking. It crashed a few times as well.
The user interface has a lot of "peculiarities", especially when trying to determine exactly what is selected at any given time. Even the manual tells you to hit escape several times to avoid doing something you didn't mean to do. This was particularly frustrating.
Screen drawing was inconsistent, it doesn't handle chord diagrams the way you'd think it would, and play back of imported midi can result in some really bizarre interpretations.
Unfortunately they have a no refund policy (no wonder!). I took a previous reviewer's recommendation and downloaded Guitar Pro 4. Now THAT is a program made for guitarists. I was up and producing useful stuff in minutes. Talk about intuitive. In a week of trying I was not able to produce a single complete score with G7.
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 Better than I expected, 2004-06-29
Being a teacher and bandleader, and new to computers, I needed an easy program to help me prepare lessons, and more importantly to make my originals readable on the job, usually in low light situations. Some of my tunes have twists and turns, and my handwriting isn't beautiful. My computer-savvy colleagues spoke highly of Sibelius and so I gave G7 a shot. It does the work I need simply, elegantly, and most importantly, I found it easy and fast to figure out. It certainly does a lot for the money, too. I'm very satisfied.
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