Request standard notation to tab software

[mike roman]

Is there software out there that will transcribe standard notation to bass tab?

 

[SteveCS]

I'm pretty sure most notation programs do, but I know for a fact that MuseScore can. You link the two staves together, and notes placed in the standard notation appear in the TAB. Once there they can be moved from string to string if you don't like the default position.

 

[frustum]

I'm pretty sure most notation programs do, but I know for a fact that MuseScore can. You link the two staves together, and notes placed in the standard notation appear in the TAB. Once there they can be moved from string to string if you don't like the default position.

For sure musescore can, but it still requires work. It will map a given note to one of the valid string+fret combinations which correspond to a given note, but you most likely will want to change some of them for your preferred fingering. There are keyboard shortcuts that make moving the note to a different string easy, as musescore will automatically change the fret number to be correct for that string.

Also, musescore supports three, I think, different types of tab notation styles. There is a basic style which is just the string & fret number, then one which adds duration flags below each number, and a third one which adds even more notational nuance. That choice is under one of the preference menus.

 

[crescalona]

If what you look for is "convert to", I'm sorry to say, that doesn't exist.
If the machine tries, it only writes unsense things and looking pretty bad.
I recommend you to order and pay to a good transcriber, like me or any other.
I catch by ear the notes, I studied many years music and I know where they are
or where can be useful or more comfortable. The machine have no idea about it.
Later some software helps, I can't deny it.
But after your software you have to do a lot of corrections, if you don't want to have an
accident with your fingers, or break your guitar, or use a lot of paper because the machine
writes silly notes in silly places. At least studying music and a life of experience
helps to run from something that is pretty badly written, despite it looks wonderful.
I admit notation and tab software helped me more than many teachers in my life,
and without them I can't work as a musician. But asking for miracles is another story.

 

[rowsi]

GuitarPro does what you're looking for. It can do much more than the name implies.

 

[jebmd]

+1 For Guitar pro. One can write entire scores using it.

 

[Ulf_Hansson]

+1 for Musescore, the PC version works pretty well (though I only use it from time to time for the students).