What's new in TabView 3.13
Jan 3, 2023
- MIDI playback can be controlled using the media keys on your keyboard (play/pause and rewind) or the "Now Playing" system menu.
New in TabView 3.12 (Dec 12, 2022)
- Fixed a crash occurring when playing back some tabs with alternate endings
New in TabView 3.11 (Sep 12, 2022)
New in TabView 3.10 (Oct 26, 2021)
New in TabView 3.9 (Sep 1, 2021)
- Added the View → Zoom menu
New in TabView 3.8 (Jan 10, 2021)
- You can choose between the classic light appearance, or a brand new dark one via the View -> Theme menu
- Also, you can customize your keyboard shortcuts to control MIDI playback in Preferences.
New in TabView 3.7 (Aug 30, 2020)
- Fixed the metronome in systems with time signature changes in the middle
New in TabView 3.6.1 (Jun 28, 2020)
- Further improvements to repeat sections handling during playback
New in TabView 3.6 (Jun 26, 2020)
- Improved handling of repetitions with alternate endings during playback.
New in TabView 3.5 (Apr 30, 2019)
- If you're left-handed and prefer to see flipped chord diagrams, there's a new option for you in the preferences
New in TabView 3.4 (Dec 18, 2018)
- TabView can now open GP7 (.gp) files
New in TabView 3.3 (Oct 11, 2018)
- Support for Mojave's Dark Mode
New in TabView 3.2 (Apr 4, 2018)
- Improved rendering of note stems.
New in TabView 3.1 (Nov 17, 2017)
New in TabView 3.0 (Jan 16, 2017)
- TabView can now read Guitar Pro files (gp3, gp4, gp5 and gpx).
- Also, tablatures rendering has been improved here and there.
New in TabView 2.16 (Dec 13, 2016)
- Implemented Touch Bar support to control playback.
New in TabView 2.15 (Oct 13, 2016)
- Improved the responsiveness of MIDI playback
- Moved the sections list inside the main window, since the use of drawers has been discouraged
New in TabView 2.14 (Jun 13, 2016)
- Render standard notation lines with a lighter color, making it easier to read on screen.
New in TabView 2.13.1 (Jan 7, 2016)
New in TabView 2.13 (May 9, 2015)
- Improved playback of repeated sections in some tabs
- New toolbar icons
New in TabView 2.12 (Aug 28, 2014)
- Added an option to disable the screensaver while documents are open
- Improved rendering of low melody rests
New in TabView 2.11 (Apr 1, 2014)
- MIDI playback: arpeggios were strummed in the wrong direction
New in TabView 2.10 (Oct 30, 2013)
- MIDI playback: the blue "current notes" indicator didn't appear correctly in Mavericks. Fixed.
New in TabView 2.9 (Jun 4, 2013)
- MIDI playback: improved the "loop selection" function
New in TabView 2.8 (May 1, 2013)
- Added an option to keep the metronome going during playback
New in TabView 2.7 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Fixed rendering when zoom is not at 100%
New in TabView 2.6 (Nov 6, 2012)
- MIDI playback: fixed rhythm slashes so that they behave correctly when there are alternate endings
New in TabView 2.5 (Sep 11, 2012)
- MIDI playback: fixed looping over a selection which includes the end of the score
- Removed support for the Apple Remote due to conflicts with Mountain Lion's sandbox
New in TabView 2.4 (May 30, 2012)
New in TabView 2.3 (Mar 23, 2012)
- Fret numbers are written on a white background, making the tablature easier to read.
- Improved the quality of prints.
New in TabView 2.2 (Feb 8, 2012)
- MIDI playback: play legato slides without striking the second note.
New in TabView 2.1 (Oct 27, 2011)
- In some cases, when using the metronome intro, "Play from Selection" would start only after a long delay. It's been fixed.
New in TabView 2.0 (Sep 10, 2011)
- Added support for full screen on Lion.
- Added a new side-by-side view which automatically kicks in when the document window is enlarged enough to fit two pages in width. It’s ideal for those using HD resolutions (ie. latest iMacs or Mac Book Pro’s).
- Improved rendering performances in some cases.
- Updated the Apple Remote code to work with Lion too.
- Added 64-bit support.
New in TabView 1.39 (Jun 20, 2011)
- Adds a “zoom” function, just like the one available in Tablatures, its big brother.
New in TabView 1.38 (May 31, 2011)
- This version contains only some minor bugfixes. Oh, and a revamped icon.
New in TabView 1.37 (Dec 11, 2010)
- The play rate slider in the toolbar shows the scaling factor too. Also, it’s possible to click on the percentage to edit the value manually.
New in TabView 1.36 (Oct 12, 2010)
- Print has been tweaked to exploit the full printable area (less white margin).
- Improved rendering of floating texts.
- Improved rendering of hammer-on/pull-off ties.
New in TabView 1.35 (Jul 7, 2010)
- A minor update for TabView is now ready for download.
New in TabView 1.34 (Apr 26, 2010)
- Improves the rendering of tie arcs in the standard notation so that they never overlap.
New in TabView 1.33 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Standard notation: use the same algorithm implemented in Tablatures to decide the direction of note flags
New in TabView 1.32 (Feb 1, 2010)
- This release improves the stability during MIDI playback, by fixing a couple of issues that were reported by users.
New in TabView 1.31 (Nov 23, 2009)
- A Preferences window has been added.
- You can now choose which score to see by default (if empty, TabView will display the other one anyway) and which score to mute by default.
- This change should please bass players, who can now set TabView to display the bass score and mute the guitar score by default.
New in TabView 1.30 (Oct 30, 2009)
- In this version, the tempo slider can be used to speed the song up too (up to 2x faster than the tempo set in the document).
New in TabView 1.29 (Jul 15, 2009)
- When Metronome Intro was enabled, the bass score was active and you choose to start playing from a bar that didn't exist in the guitar score (because it was shorter than the bass one), a crash occurred. Fixed.
- MIDI playback: fixed a crash that occurred with scores incorrectly containing Guitar In symbols for non-defined guitars.
New in TabView 1.28 (Jun 30, 2009)
- Fixes a race condition that could trigger a crash if you changed Display Mode while playing a tab.
- Also, as it happened with our other products, support for Mac OS X 10.3 has been dropped, thus allowing to clean the code up a bit by removing workaround for 10.3 bugs.
New in TabView 1.27 (Jun 9, 2009)
- Fixes a possible crash that happened with some tablatures when trying to play them or convert them to MIDI files.
New in TabView 1.26 (Mar 23, 2009)
- Rhythm slash: fixed a rendering bug involving beamings of 16th notes.
- Display an error dialog in case the required system fonts cannot be opened.
New in TabView 1.25 (Jan 19, 2009)
- Adds an useful feature for your practice sessions: "Play Selection". As the name implies, it plays the selected part of the tablature, then it stops, so you can immediately practice it on your guitar.
New in TabView 1.24 (Nov 17, 2008)
- Fixes a problem with certain tabs that were causing TabView to crash.
New in TabView 1.23 (Nov 5, 2008)
- Adds an option to mute either the guitar or the bass score (see the MIDI -> Mute menu) to help you with your practice.
New in TabView 1.22 (Aug 12, 2008)
- MIDI playback: when a repeat end bar line is encountered, its repeat count value is ignored if there are alternate endings in the bar. This behaviour is similar to that of PowerTabEditor.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to start playing from the selection: shift spacebar.
- MIDI playback: added an option to start with a metronome intro (MIDI -> Metronome Intro).
New in TabView 1.21 (Jul 24, 2008)
- In this version, MIDI playback can be paused.
- A Pause button is available among those that can be added to the toolbar.
New in TabView 1.20 (May 22, 2008)
- Fixed "Play from selection" to work correctly in presence of repeated sections.
New in TabView 1.19 (Mar 19, 2008)
- Updated the Apple Remote functions to support Leopard.
- Added a couple of keyboard shortcuts to control MIDI playback: the spacebar will start or stop the playback from the start, while the return key will loop the current selection.
New in TabView 1.18 (Jan 4, 2008)
- Fixed a print problem that happened on Leopard when the print dialog was showing the page thumbnail.
- MIDI export created unreadable files on several OS X versions due to a bug in a system function*. A different way to perform the same operation has been implemented in order to work around the problem.
New in TabView 1.17 (Dec 4, 2007)
- Fixed the way accidentals are rendered.
- When opening a document, if the guitar score is totally empty, the bass score will be automatically displayed.
- Bar numbers at the beginning of the system take multibar rests into account.
New in TabView 1.15 (Sep 19, 2007)
- This version includes a couple of rendering fixes, and two new features.
- You can now decide whether to view tabs in the normal way (that is, as in the previous releases), to view only the tablature staff or to view only the standard notation.
- Also, TabView now includes a Spotlight plugin which allows you to search through your tabs collection more easily.