TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.

Additionally, TablEdit, while designed for guitarists, by guitarists, is not limited to guitar like other Tablature programs. Through ongoing consultation with experts on other instruments, TablEdit has developed support for harmonica, mountain dulcimer, diatonic accordion, drums, violin, tin whistle, recorder, xaphoon, native american flute, autoharp, pedal steel guitar, and banjo (even taking into consideration the special aspect of the fifth string).

TablEdit can open/import ASCII, MIDI, ABC, MusicXML, Bucket O' Tab, TabRite, and Wayne Cripps files. Files can be saved in TablEdit format or exported to ASCII, HTML, ABC, RTF, MIDI, Lilypond or WAV formats. TablEdit runs on Windows, Macintosh, and Windows Mobile (PocketPC.)

So, What does TablEdit have to offer you? Read on...

* TablEdit supports both tablature and standard notation.
* TablEdit features instant conversion from standard notation to tablature and vice-versa.
* TablEdit's Multi Document Interface (MDI) allows the opening of multiple TablEdit files at the same time.
* TablEdit supports English, French, German and Spanish as build-in languages
* TablEdit offers unlimited language support! (patches currently available: Chinese Big5, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Occitan, Russian and Greek).
* TablEdit has help files available in English, French, German and Spanish.
* TablEdit offers full screen multitrack entering and editing (16 tracks) and fully configurable, multitrack printing.
* TablEdit features high quality printout of tablature and/or musical staves.
* TablEdit can save an image of the printed output in a variety of graphic formats.
* TablEdit can print chord diagrams and head sheets.
* TablEdit offers playback of tablatures via Midi output with complete real time sound control (volume, balance, voices, MIDI banks...).
* TablEdit opens and saves MusicXML files.
* TablEdit allows import and export of Midi files ASCII files or ABC files. NIFF (Notation Interchange File Format) import. Lilypond, WAV and HTML export.
* TablEdit opens Waynes Cripps' Tab, Bucket o'Tab and TabRite files.
* TablEdit allows editing and construction of custom chord diagrams
* and TablEdit has many other features:
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o various effects (hammer-on, pull-off, chokes, bends, slide, vibrato, roll, grace notes, muted notes, rasgueado, etc.),
o alternate tunings, transpositions,
o complete control over note duration and attack for each note,
o lyrics, fingerings and pick strokes, tempo and time signature changes, crescendo,
o notation editing features (multiple voices, clefs, key signatures, beaming and stem control, alterations, legato...),
o insertion of playing and historical notes,
o transposition,
* up to 16 instruments of from 3 to 12 strings each (even support for 5-string banjo, lute, fiddle, diatonic dulcimer, drums, diatonic accordion and harmonica, recorder, tin whistle, pedal steel guitar, autoharp...),
o rhythm tracks,
o support of Visualinear tablature,
o support AdTab fingerings,
o scale inspector,
o separate printout of chord diagrams,
o speed trainer,
o graphical fingerboard & keyboard,
o quickview,
o juke box & file manager,