What's new in Tablatures 2.42
Jan 9, 2023
- MIDI playback can now be controlled using the media keys on your keyboard (play/pause and rewind) or the "Now Playing" system menu.
- Added an option to replace the vertical "TAB" text on tabs with the guitar tuning.
New in Tablatures 2.41 (Oct 25, 2022)
- Fixed a crash occurring when playing back some tabs with alternate endings
New in Tablatures 2.40 (Sep 9, 2022)
- Fixed a small problem when printing: it would always use the default tablature line spacing, instead of the one set in the document
New in Tablatures 2.39 (Jul 25, 2022)
- Fixed support to scroll with page up/down keyboard shortcuts on recent macOS releases
New in Tablatures 2.38 (Oct 27, 2021)
New in Tablatures 2.37 (Aug 27, 2021)
- Added the View → Zoom menu
New in Tablatures 2.36 (Jan 5, 2021)
- You can choose between the classic light appearance, or a brand new dark one via the View -> Theme menu
New in Tablatures 2.35 (Aug 30, 2020)
- Fixed the metronome in systems with time signature changes in the middle
New in Tablatures 2.34.1 (Jun 16, 2020)
- Further improvements to repeat sections handling during playback
New in Tablatures 2.34 (May 21, 2020)
- Improved handling of repetitions with alternate endings during playback
New in Tablatures 2.33 (Apr 15, 2019)
- If you have a system with multiple staves with different clefs/tablature types, adding a new system will properly carry those settings over to the new one
- Update the controls in the Notes Panel correctly when switching from Hi to Low melody, or viceversa
New in Tablatures 2.32 (Mar 18, 2019)
- Fixed: the beaming pattern was not applied correctly in all cases when triplets (or other irregular groupings) were present
New in Tablatures 2.31 (Dec 3, 2018)
- Redraw the document correctly after editing the file properties
- Copying and pasting certain strings from the Finder could cause a corruption when saving the document
New in Tablatures 2.30 (Nov 11, 2018)
- Tablatures can now read .gp files too
New in Tablatures 2.29 (Oct 1, 2018)
- Support for Mojave's Dark Mode
New in Tablatures 2.28 (Apr 10, 2018)
- Improved rendering of note stems.
New in Tablatures 2.27.2 (Feb 13, 2017)
- Fixed floating texts jumping when being moved
New in Tablatures 2.27.1 (Feb 7, 2017)
- Added a new tracks panel
- MIDI playback: tracks can be muted
- Improved rendering of tie arcs carried over at the beginning of the next system
- Improved positioning of floating texts
New in Tablatures 2.27 (Jan 31, 2017)
- Added a new tracks panel
- MIDI playback: tracks can be muted
- Improved rendering of tie arcs carried over at the beginning of the next system
- Improved positioning of floating texts
New in Tablatures 2.26.1 (Nov 27, 2016)
- Implemented Touch Bar support to control playback
New in Tablatures 2.25 (Nov 23, 2016)
- Implemented Touch Bar support to control playback
New in Tablatures 2.25 (Nov 8, 2016)
- Adds a printing option to decide whether to use the full page width for the last system, or to cut it short if possible.
New in Tablatures 2.24 (Oct 18, 2016)
- Improved responsiveness of MIDI playback
- Moved the sections list inside the main window, since the use of drawers has been discouraged
- Requires macOS 10.9 or later
New in Tablatures 2.23 (Aug 29, 2016)
- Improves the appearance of the last system in the score when printing it out.
New in Tablatures 2.22 (Jun 5, 2016)
- Improves the support for GP5/GPX files. Standard notation rendering has also changed a bit: the pentagram lines are drawn with a slightly lighter color which makes symbols pop out.
New in Tablatures 2.21 (Apr 19, 2016)
- This version fixes a playback issue with some Guitar Pro imported documents: dynamic symbols weren’t handled properly resulting in silence.
New in Tablatures 2.20 (Jul 14, 2015)
- Increased the maximum duration of volume swells
New in Tablatures 2.19 (Jun 27, 2015)
- This version includes a couple of improvements to the Chord Dictionary
New in Tablatures 2.18 (May 19, 2015)
- MIDI playback: use the first instrument defined in the score as fallback in case the document lacks a proper Guitar In symbol
- New toolbar icons
New in Tablatures 2.17 (Mar 24, 2015)
- Fixed loading of GP files
New in Tablatures 2.16 (Mar 11, 2015)
- When displaying bar numbers, don't count bars without any note or rest
- MIDI playback: repeated bars were not handled correctly in some cases, fixed.
New in Tablatures 2.15 (Jan 8, 2015)
- Fixed a problem with rhythm slash triplets
New in Tablatures 2.14 (Nov 17, 2014)
- Improved handling of rhythm slashes
- Improved playback of thrills in scores with a fast tempo
New in Tablatures 2.13 (Aug 19, 2014)
- Added an option to disable the screensaver while documents are open
- Added two new configurable shortcuts that enable to extend the current selection to the left or to the right
- Improved the import of .gpx documents
New in Tablatures 2.12.1 (May 28, 2014)
- Fixed a bug introduced in v2.12
New in Tablatures 2.12 (May 24, 2014)
- Improved rendering of low melody rests
- Added a new configurable shortcut: “Delete Current Melody” (Shift + Backspace by default)
New in Tablatures 2.11 (Mar 31, 2014)
- MIDI playback: arpeggios were strummed in the wrong direction
New in Tablatures 2.10 (Feb 1, 2014)
- Added an option to control how to write notes in standard notation when a capo is used
- When reading GP3-GP5 files, pull offs weren't decoded correctly
New in Tablatures 2.9 (Oct 30, 2013)
- MIDI playback: the blue "current notes" indicator didn't appear correctly in Mavericks. Fixed.
New in Tablatures 2.8 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Fixed editing of floating texts when the zoom is not at 100%
New in Tablatures 2.7 (Jun 11, 2013)
- MIDI playback: added an option to keep the metronome going during playback.
- Improved the way the "loop selection" function works, making it more precise and consistent with user expectations.
New in Tablatures 2.6 (Jan 11, 2013)
- Keyboard shortcuts can be customized in the Preferences window
- Notes can be easily moved from string to string (see the Note menu)
- It's now possible to view .gpx tablatures
New in Tablatures 2.5 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Fixed rendering when zoom is not at 100%
New in Tablatures 2.4 (Nov 2, 2012)
- Fixed the cached chord names list in the chord name editor
- MIDI playback: rhythm slashes behave correctly when there are alternate endings
New in Tablatures 2.3 (Sep 5, 2012)
- Added a sandbox exception to allow MIDI playback to work on Mountain Lion. The system will display a warning before allowing playback, though.
- Fixed a problem in the chord dictionary that prevented to select all the available chord diagrams.
New in Tablatures 2.2 (Aug 24, 2012)
- MIDI playback: fixed looping over a selection at the end of the score
- Fixed crash when reopening a document while the Chord Dictionary is open
- Removed Apple Remote support, since it conflicts with sandboxing on Mountain Lion causing playback problems
New in Tablatures 2.1 (Apr 17, 2012)
- The chord dictionary allows to define custom chord diagrams, in case the automatically generated ones are not enough.
- Improved the quality of prints.
- Improved the importer of GP5 files.
New in Tablatures 2.0 (Mar 10, 2012)
- Snow Leopard is now the minimum required OS X version.
- Added 64-bit support.
- Added support for document versions on Lion.
New in Tablatures 1.41 (Jan 31, 2012)
- When editing a chord name, a double click on a row of the Cached Chords Names table will be enough to select the chord and confirm it.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to insert a double bar: F
- MIDI playback: play legato slides without striking the second note.
New in Tablatures 1.40 (Nov 23, 2011)
- Prevent System->Remove Staff from deleting the bar lines from the remaining staves of the system.
New in Tablatures 1.39 (Oct 28, 2011)
- Limit the length of helper lines in standard notation, to make them more pleasant when there are few positions in the system.
- Sometimes wrapping ties were not updated correctly when performing certain edit operations. Fixed.
- Prevent fermata symbols from overlapping on whole notes on the first notation line.
- Draw wrapping tie arcs for rhythm slashes too.
- Updated the Apple Remote support to work with Lion too.
New in Tablatures 1.38 (Jun 30, 2011)
- Improves the readability of fret numbers in the tablature. Also, playback of GuitarPro documents with only one score has been fixed.
New in Tablatures 1.37 (Jun 14, 2011)
- When editing a barline, the beaming pattern can optionally be applied from the current bar to the end of the score.
- Improved copy & paste when working on a single staff.
- Preferences: added option to automatically create new sections. If set, a new empty section will be added upon entering a note on the last position of the last section of the score.
New in Tablatures 1.36 (Apr 25, 2011)
- Fixed a crash occurring when “Automatically insert barlines” was enabled and there was no visible time signature on the score.
- Fixed a crash occurring when starting MIDI playback while a floating text was being edited.
New in Tablatures 1.35 (Apr 4, 2011)
- Corrected the formula for diminished chords in the Chord Dictionary.
- The size of chord diagrams is configurable among the preferences.
- A couple of other minor fixes.
New in Tablatures 1.34 (Jan 5, 2011)
- The handling of dynamics in GP files has been improved.
- The play rate slider in the toolbar now shows the scaling factor too.
- Also, it's possible to click on the percentage to edit the value manually.
New in Tablatures 1.33 (Nov 22, 2010)
- Compatibility with GP5 files containing chord information has been improved.
- An option to use spacebar to toggle playback instead of inserting empty positions has been added to Preferences.
New in Tablatures 1.32 (Oct 30, 2010)
- Apart from a couple of small fixes, this version implements a feature that’s been requested by several users: all floating texts will not be hidden anymore when switching to Tablature Only or Standard Notation Only display modes.
- Instead, only those texts that would have appeared in the hidden parts won’t be visible (no surprise there). Editing of floating texts is still available only in the normal display mode, though.
New in Tablatures 1.31 (Oct 2, 2010)
- Fixed problems in the Guitar Pro importer.
- Improved the rendering of hammer-on/pull-off ties.
New in Tablatures 1.30 (Sep 13, 2010)
- An option to automatically insert barlines has been added among the preferences. If enabled, barlines will be automatically inserted when you add a note that exceeds the duration of a bar.
- Print has been tweaked to exploit the full printable area.
- Floating texts can be removed by dragging them out of the score.
- Pressing the alt key while starting to move a floating text will clone it.
- Pressing the shift key while moving a floating text will keep it aligned to its original position.
- Banjo tunings available in the Choose Tuning list have been revised.
- Keyboard shortcuts to toggle pick stroke signs have been added (k for downwards pick strokes, K for upwards ones).
New in Tablatures 1.29 (Aug 18, 2010)
- The Chord Dictionary panel can be resized.
- It’s possible to click on the zoom value to edit it, for those who don’t always like to use the slider.
- When editing a bend, “Release (gradual)” couldn’t be set correctly. It has been fixed.
- A keyboard shortcut to toggle chord names has been added: c.
New in Tablatures 1.28 (Jun 28, 2010)
- Added support to read and save Unicode strings. This means that now you can use any character set you want (Japanese, Korean, Greek, etc…) and your texts won't be mangled upon saving.
- Although it's supported by the file format, other PowerTab-based applications might not handle international charsets (for instance, PTE on Windows will display question marks in presence of non-Latin1 characters).
New in Tablatures 1.27 (May 29, 2010)
- Adds some extra tunings (e.g. Violin) in the Choose Tuning list of the Edit Guitars window.
New in Tablatures 1.26 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Guitar tunings will be shown as reference in the tablature header.
- Remember the last used Display Mode when opening a new window.
- Standard notation: improved rendering of tie arcs so that they never overlap.
- Improved rendering of tablature symbols (e.g. picking stroke directions) when using a bigger-than-usual tablature font size.
New in Tablatures 1.25 (Mar 19, 2010)
- Fixed a crash occurring when changing the Tablature Staff/Chord Names properties on GuitarPro files.
- Make sure that the last remaining guitar in a score cannot be removed.
New in Tablatures 1.24 (Feb 22, 2010)
- Guitar In symbols could disappear when undoing a change to a system. Fixed.
- Improved stability when editing the tablature while playback is in progress.
New in Tablatures 1.23 (Jan 11, 2010)
- Implemented a workaround for a Mac OS X/Xcode bug that caused some crashes while saving certain tablatures.
New in Tablatures 1.22 (Dec 29, 2009)
- Adds keyboard shortcuts to several items of the System menu.
New in Tablatures 1.21 (Dec 21, 2009)
- 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.
New in Tablatures 1.20 (Nov 5, 2009)
- 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.
New in Tablatures 1.19 (Oct 8, 2009)
- 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.
New in Tablatures 1.18 (Sep 7, 2009)
- Preferences: added an option to save documents automatically every X minutes. Autosaved documents will appear as "name (Autosaved).ptb" in the same directory of the original document, or in "~/Library/Autosave Information" for new, never saved before documents. In case Tablatures crashes, autosaved documents will automatically be reopened.
- Editing the tablature or performing undo/redo while playback was looping over a section could result in a crash. Fixed.
- Fixed a crash that occurred trying to add a system above the first one, when the first one didn't have any tempo markers.
New in Tablatures 1.17 (Aug 6, 2009)
- Improves stability in a couple of situations.
New in Tablatures 1.16 (Jul 14, 2009)
- Fixed a crash that occurred with scores containing a Guitar In symbol for a non-defined guitar.
New in Tablatures 1.14 (Jun 23, 2009)
- Removed some code needed to work around some OS X 10.3 bugs.
- Expanded the Chord Dictionary with many voicings missing an optional note (e.g. 7th without 5th).
- Save as... will properly change file type to .ptb when used with Guitar Pro documents.
New in Tablatures 1.13 (Apr 16, 2009)
- MIDI playback: if a score containing a repetition had an empty section at the end, playback wouldn't start. Fixed.
- Added an option to change the tablature font size in "Edit" -> "Tablature Staff Properties..."
New in Tablatures 1.12 (Mar 12, 2009)
- Standard notation: fixed some rendering errors.
- Rhythm slash: fixed a rendering bug involving beamings of 16th notes.
New in Tablatures 1.11 (Jan 7, 2009)
- Added floating texts: you can place a text box anywhere you want, simply drag'n'drop the floating text from the Musical Symbols Panel and edit it to your heart's desire.
- Standard notation: consecutive octave offset symbols (e.g. "8va") will be grouped together.
- The beaming algorithm has been improved.
New in Tablatures 1.10 (Oct 27, 2008)
- This version features a totally rewritten copy & paste support which vastly improves the previous basic implementation.
- Also, when deleting a selection, everything inside it will be removed (chord texts, directions, etc...).
- In the previous version, only notes and barlines were deleted, but that wasn't so intuitive or useful.
New in Tablatures 1.9 (Aug 26, 2008)
- Added a zoom slider at the bottom of the window.
- The line spacing for the tablature staff can be adjusted (see the menu "Edit" -> "Tablature Staff Properties...").
- 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.
- MIDI playback: added an option to start with a metronome intro ("MIDI" -> "Metronome Intro").
New in Tablatures 1.8 (Jul 10, 2008)
- Added an option to draw left-handed chord diagrams.
- MIDI playback can be paused. A pause button is available among those that can be added to the toolbar.
- Added "Uniform Positions Width" in the Score menu: it makes the width of positions (i.e. the distance between notes) uniform across the whole score.
New in Tablatures 1.6 (Apr 1, 2008)
- Improved cursor movements.
- If you add a time/key signature to a barline, the system is re-layouted to fit all the notes.
- When editing a tempo marker, the BPM value wasn't updated if you closed the dialog while the focus was still on the tempo text box. Fixed.
- Sometimes a key signature couldn't be changed. Fixed.
- Updated the Apple Remote functions to support Leopard.
New in Tablatures 1.5 (Feb 18, 2008)
- The most important addition in this release is a basic and experimental* support for GuitarPro 3-5 files (*.gp3, .gp4, .gp5). GP tablatures can be read, but they will be converted to PowerTab when saved, keeping only the first two scores since that is PTB's limit.
New in Tablatures 1.3 (Dec 11, 2007)
- Chord Dictionary: A flat/sharp wasn't correctly set. Fixed.
- When you add a system, the last time and key signatures are automatically pre-set for the new one, even if they're not shown.
New in Tablatures 1.2 (Nov 28, 2007)
- Keyboard shortcuts to edit rests have been added.
- Fixed the way accidentals are rendered.
- Sometimes notes were incorrectly beamed together. Fixed.
- Properly layout the bass score when loading a tab.
- 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.
- Added a keyboard shortcut to remove a position (shift space).
- When changing the time/key signature of a barline, Show is automatically checked.
New in Tablatures 1.1 (Nov 13, 2007)
- Added a Chord Dictionary. Apart from generating a lot of chord voicings, it also allows to add chord diagrams to the tablature.
- Chord Diagrams can be removed from a tablature using drag'n'drop.
- PowertTabEditor doesn't perform a full layout of the systems when loading a document. Tablatures now saves the result of its layout engine in the .ptb files so that they can be opened in PTE without being garbled.
- Implemented the code behind the "Choose Tuning" button in the "Edit Guitars" sheet.