News from the development room, Page 53

Here’s a new Tablatures update.

The list of changes since the previous version includes:

• MIDI playback: the tempo slider can be used to speed the song up too (up to 2x faster than the tempo set in the document).
• Standard notation: extra notation lines could be drawn with an huge length, thus causing excessive slowdown, when a system contained many positions. Fixed.

The typical requests can be summarised as “I hear the metronome clicking and then silence”.

The usual culprit is the lack of a Guitar In symbol at the start of the document. Tablatures uses Guitar In’s to determine which instrument (as defined using the Score -> Edit Guitars menu) should be used for playback.

When you create a new document, Tablatures already puts a Gtr I symbol at the beginning.
If you delete it or need to change instrument in the middle of a song, adding a guitar in symbol is very easy to do:

1. Tick the Guitar In checkbox in the Musical Symbols Panel:
   
2. Then choose the guitar(s) which should be start playing from the current caret position:
   

Finally, you might want to make sure that all the guitars you have used are actually defined among the instruments used by the score. So let’s use the Score -> Edit Guitars menu and edit them as needed:

Here you can choose the MIDI instrument to use, apply some effects and change its tuning.

A new release of Tablatures is ready for download.

The list of changes since the previous version includes:

• Chord Dictionary: disable the “Add to Score” button when no document is open.
• Disabled autosave on GuitarPro documents, to avoid problems. It’s a good practice to convert GP docs to PowerTab before starting to edit them, anyway.