Tablatures, Page 14 Category

A new year has arrived, so why shouldn’t a new Tablatures be released as well? 🙂

After a lot of digging, I’ve discovered a bug in the compiler (the tool used to convert ideas into applications you can use on your Mac) that caused some crashes while saving certain tablatures. It’s been reported to Apple, so that their engineers can fix it.

In the meantime, a workaround has been implemented to avoid the problem.

Another quick update for Tablatures is here.

This release adds keyboard shortcuts to several items of the System menu.

A new Tablatures release is here, just in time for your own Christmas present 🙂

The list of changes since the previous version includes:

• Added option to change the size of chord names (Edit -> Chord Names Properties…).
• Improved rendering in tablature-only display to prevent chord names to overlap with the first notation line.

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.