I've used this to make tabs for the Merlin, a DAD instrument strung in the mirror image of the mountain dulcimer. Like many similar prgs has a bit of a quirky note entering scheme, but it does work well.
Yes, looks kind of quaint, but if Pete Townsend of The Who uses it, I’m in!
It was my favorite tablature editor a long time ago. Besides not being an adequate replacement, my choice today is musescore with an extension to display the guitar fretboard.
What’s your take on V4?
Haven't tried yet. I don't think it will still be adequate since it follows an workflow that requires precise knowledge of tempo and rhythm before knowing the melody which is simply not how "my brain works". But since I use it mostly to listen repeated parts of a new music I choose to learn, it is certainly good enough for my needs.
thanks!
if you are comfortable with the LaTeX style editing, lilypond is an amazing editor and layout engine for scores that can produce tab or traditional sheet music output (and fretboards for fretted instruments or most anything else you could want)
There’s also Frescobaldi, which is sort of like an IDE for lilypond. And unlike tabledit, there’s a Linux version.
This is what I ended up using on my linux box. Lilypond is very powerful once you get used to it.
Not to derail this too much… This sounded familiar, at first I thought I might have an old 2010 version of this on my DAW computer.
But now that I’ve looked, it’s a beta version of Mus2, which is used mainly for microtonal notation.
What is called the one that has lyrics and chords above it?
Chord tabs?