![]() ![]() ![]() Yeah I know, MuseScore has a swing-rhythm feature that's now even adjustable in small increments, but it just doesn't seem to produce quite the right kind of rhythm - whereas TablEdit's implementation of swing rhythm sounds better to me. Anyway, I use both of those apps now, but for different purposes: TablEdit seems much better for playback, like for practicing learning a new tune, whereas I find MuseScore 2.x easier for printing scores and making PDF files for other people to look at (but not play back). Whereas TablEdit seems to be designed specifically for writing tab so it doesn't have all those frustrating quirks that MuseScore has, for instance TablEdit lets you choose any font that's installed on your computer to use for the tab numbers, so you can make the darned tab numbers easier to read by choosing any font you like. I write tab/notation both in TablEdit and also now in MuseScore 2.x (yes MuseScore can be used to write mandolin tab now, see post #8 by StuartE and also my super-short video quick mini-tutorial), although MuseScore tab is deficient (lacks an easy way to write hammers, pulls, etc yes it can be done but you have to jump through some hoops, in MuseScore the tab seems clearly an afterthought and not fully developed yet, for instance you can only choose from 4 fonts for the tab, can't even make MuseScore tab fonts bold or use your own fonts for easier reading). Swing rhythm: on Windows, click "MIDI" menu > "MIDI Options" > change "Syncopation" from "0" (Straight Eighths) to either "1" (Jazz Eighths) or 2 (Swing Eighths)."Simulate Human playing": on Windows, click "File" menu > "Options" > "Advanced" tab > click checkbox for "Simulate Human playing".You can also purchase the software and it is definitely worth the price. Download the TefView software which will let you download, print and listen to tabs. A lot of our tabs are Tabledit (.tef) tabs. Not sure if the free TefView player has these options but the full version of TablEdit has two settings that (to me, anyway) make for a better sound: For software, on that same page youll find a blue underlined sentence that will take you where you can access various software. I expect it's primarily because there's a couple thousand mandolin tabs written on tabledit and viewable with tefview available for individual search or download in toto over at, and I think the reason there are so many files in that format, is because people like that the playback *rhythm* can be made to sound somewhat more realistic (compared to other notation/tab apps I've tried). ![]()
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