mac tab program

[Jezz8me]

the only mac tab prgram i have been able to find is guitar pro and i am not willing to pay money for my program so are there any similar programs that are freeware.

damn powertab not working on mac only downside i see to my mac (no hijaking this pc people)

[manicbassman]

Originally Posted by Jezz8me

the only mac tab prgram i have been able to find is guitar pro and i am not willing to pay money for my program so are there any similar programs that are freeware.

damn powertab not working on mac only downside i see to my mac (no hijaking this pc people)

try TuxGuitar

http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/home.html

it's a java program so is platform neutral

there is a Mac package available on the download page

http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/download.html

[DeanT]

It doesn't look like TuxGuitar does bass tabs.

I use Finale Print Music. It's not free, but works on the Mac. It's fairly accurate with tabs (but not always right on). The only problem is you have to scan sheet music as a .tiff file so it can convert it to tab. It's a fairly easy process: Scan sheet music; have Print Music convert it to tab; print it out; play.

[manicbassman]

Tux Guitar DOES do Bass tabs... you have to define the staff as Bass Clef and the instrument as four string and set the tuning if different from standard.

Do the staff in the Clef item of the "Composition" menu and the instrument in the Properties item of the "Track£ menu

You can input notes using the fretboard view if you find that more convenient.

See screenshots:


setting the clef


setting the instrument in track properties


playing a Guitar Pro file


It also reads and saves GP3/4/5 files as well as imports/exports MIDI.

The current version has a bug in that when loading in a file, it reverts the staff to treble clef so you have to reset it.

[DeanT]

Originally Posted by manicbassman

Tux Guitar DOES do Bass tabs... you have to define the staff as Bass Clef and the instrument as four string and set the tuning if different from standard.

Cool. That wasn't immediately apparent from looking at the web site. It looks like a pretty nice program though. Hopefully they'll get the bugs worked out in upcoming releases.

[Jezz8me]

awsome, looks just as good as guitar pro, without the rse.

can it open power tab and or guitar pro files though?

[manicbassman]

as I said before it can open and save guitar pro files and according to the open files dialog, it can open *.ptb files which to my untrained eye could be powertab files. Don't know as I don't have any available to play with.



file open dialog

in case you're wondering, I'm not running windows or OSX. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 6.06 version with KDE desktop