The Steel Guitar Forum

For some reason a default has changed on my tabledit setup.
When I start up I have the treble staff and the bass staff along with the number tablature. I do not want the bass staff.
I have been to help files, print set-up etc and cannot move it out.
Simple answer I know but I can't figure??
Thanks for any help out there.
Roy

I started a new score and the bass stave dissapeared. Now I have just the treble stave and the 10 string tab. Great!!
Joey Ace just put me onto the following possibility:
The problem is when I enter a note too low
for the treble the bass stave comes on screen
Maybe my octave setting is wrong?

Sounds like you have somehow added a bass clef instrument or a piano. Check the upper right corner of your screen. There is a small window with the name of an instrument in it and and small numbered boxes. Click on those boxes to get their description screen and see if one of them is listed as a bass guitar or piano in the "Tuning" screen. If it is, you can eliminate it using the "Delete Module" option. However, if you used this instrument to write notes into your TAB, you'll lose the notes. If you want to save the notes for the instrument, click on "Tuning" and select a different instrument (like a standard guitar) in the top middle window using the pull-down carat. Click "Yes" for "Module Change?", then "Apply" & "Close" and the bass clef should be gone. The TAB notes may be slightly weird but the notes in the staff should be close enough for you to re-TAB them. Be sure to use the "Tuning" screen or menu and not the one for "Module".

Thanks Joe!

Whoa! I see this happens on C6. (Guess which neck I'm stuck on.) I tried raising the string pitch an octave which gets rid of the bass cleff for all notes but I get glitches on the high E string and can't raise it a full octave. I e-mailed Matthew about it and hope there is a solution. If so, I'll pass it on here. Sorry about the wild goose chase, Roy.

Keep me posted too Joe...
If you don't mind.
Roy

I just heard back from Matthieu. Raising the strings an octave does produce a tuning glitch. However, the book solution to removing the bass clef is to simply change the position of Middle C in the notation. Matthieu has built in a feature which permits this by using "CTRL + ". I used it as follows: Set up PSG C6 tuning in the instrument screen. Return to the main screen and enter an open note on the 10th string in the TAB which will appear as a "C" in the bass clef. Click the cursor to the corresponding position on treble clef at the shadow line below the score (also "C"). Hold CTRL and hit the "+" key on the number pad (NOT the one on the QWERTY keyboard). The 10th string open "C" is now on the treble cleff, the bass clef is gone and all remaining notes which are tabbed appear in the treble clef. Pretty clever fellow, that Matthieu!

He has also removed the feature which saves the current tuning in the initialization file. If your C6 tuning uses a "D" on top, you can now set that in the Score\Instrument\Tuning dialog and it will not revert to "G" when you shut down & re-start.

I think Tab|Edit is a super tool. I've tabbed out a number of tunes then tabbed in a simple guitar, bass, drum back-up, saved it to MIDI and loaded it into a MIDI player which plays back through my amp. This is a great learning tool as the PSG part can be gradually faded out and the tempo can be set faster as the tune is learned. Soon I'll have a library of 3 part back-ups. One day I'll also try to learn to play the pedal steel instead of fooling around with all of the gadgets.

I have tried to tab out a slide starting from string #'s 3 and 5 open up two frets with A and B pedals depressed and have applied the slide tool in the Tools box and it results in not hearing either the open or up two positions. I have tried using several of the tools but am unable to hear the slide. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance for the favor of a reply~ Jim

Jim - You're right. Sliding from one fret to another with pedals engaged at both frets does work but from (or to) open-to-pedals just results in the sound of the first note and the sum of the durations. I e-mailed Matthieu about this and will post his response here when I receive it. I don't recall this happening in older versions of Tab|Edit so hopefully it's something simple.

The TE Midi doesn't play all pedal combinations with slides correctly, but that's okay with me since I'm more interested in the visual aspects of TE than the audio (although it is nice to have the audio for reference). If you remove the "slide" effect (i.e. remove the lines between the pedal and lever changes) the changes should play fine. I sometimes do that just to listen to the Midi, and then I add in the lines to make the proper visual.



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