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Tab/Notation Software?
Posted: 4 Oct 2006 5:07 am
by Mark Treepaz
I'm trying to find out if or what the latest (if it even exists) software available is to create steel guitar tab by inputing notation and create notation by inputing the tab.
Is there software out there to accomplish this? If so, what is it called where might I find it?
Thanks in advance.
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Sho-Bud LDG, Gretsch Syncromatic Lap Steel, Bach Stradivarious 37 Trumpet, Getzen Flugelhorn, Fender Precision Bass (pre-CBS)
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Posted: 4 Oct 2006 5:25 am
by Joey Ace
Do a search for TABLEDIT in this section.
It does what you are asking, and plays the song.
Posted: 4 Oct 2006 5:38 am
by Nic du Toit
Posted: 4 Oct 2006 7:39 am
by Mark Treepaz
Thanks guys! I went to the site and ended up downloading the software and ordered the "key".
That seems to be exactly what I was looking for! Good Suggestion!
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Sho-Bud LDG, Gretsch Syncromatic Lap Steel, Bach Stradivarious 37 Trumpet, Getzen Flugelhorn, Fender Precision Bass (pre-CBS)
Posted: 4 Oct 2006 4:32 pm
by Gary Shepherd
Or if you have a spreadsheet program, you can do it on that with any font you like. Of couse, there's no MIDI playback on a spreadsheet.
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Gary Shepherd
Carter D-10
www.16tracks.com
Posted: 7 Oct 2006 6:24 pm
by Ed Shimkus
Hey Gary, you ever have one of those DUH moments. I've DL'ed or printed tabs, often finding that they were rendered in 6-point font, far beyond the reach of my eye-to-music stand distance. Spent a bit of time searching the Web for software. And then you come along and say EXCEL!! Now I have 14-point font, every other string shaded, bold titles, readily alpha sorted tabs. Hell, I'm creating tabs for stuff I'll never play!
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Posted: 7 Oct 2006 7:27 pm
by Gary Shepherd
Cool. Send me a few and I'll play them.
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Gary Shepherd
Carter D-10
www.16tracks.com
Posted: 8 Oct 2006 10:14 am
by Doug Beaumier
Mark, TablEdit does "tab to notes" very well in the Pedal Steel Guitar mode. The "notes to tab" also works... but not very well for PSG because when a note is entered, the program does not know
where to place the tab on the fretboard. For example, there are probably 15 different locations on the E9 fretboard for middle C... on different strings, using pedals, levers, etc.
If you enter the notes, the tab will appear, but you will need to correct the tab, add in the letters for pedal/lever changes, place the numbers on different frets according to how you want to play the song. So TE is not good for creating steel tab by inputting notation, but it's great for creating notation by inputting tab. I would not describe TE as user friendly. There are a lot of settings and options, and the user needs to know a fair amount about music notation in order to make everything appear as it should. The results are amazing though. I used TablEdit to create my new 161 page song book
60 Popular Melodies for E9. Here's how it looks:
Song Book
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Posted: 8 Oct 2006 7:58 pm
by Mark Treepaz
Doug;
I've received my "key" over the weekend and been playing around with the program a bit. I see what you are saying about inputting notation and where it puts the notes in the tab. I'd found a couple of settings (in the "transpose measure" section) that allow you to set what I'll refer to as sort of a "no-lower-than" fret which helps, but doesn't completely solve the problem.
I'm used to music software being not-so-user-friendly as I've been using "Finale" notation software for years now. That is a very complex notation software. Fortunately, I have a pretty solid musical (inclusive of theory) background (34 years of playing trumpet) so the notation part of it doesn't bother me.
I agree with you about TablEdit being better at inputting tab to get the notation, rather than the other way around. In the short amount of time that I've been playing around with the software, I've already found this to be the case.
All in all, it's handy software for the price.
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Sho-Bud LDG, Gretsch Syncromatic Lap Steel, Bach Stradivarious 37 Trumpet, Getzen Eterna Flugelhorn, Fender Precision Bass (pre-CBS)
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