TabView 2006-2009 by Simone Tellini All rights reserved.

How to install
Simply drag and drop TabView to your Applications folder.

Release History

Release 1.29 % 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.

Release 1.28 % Mac OS X 10.4 is now the minimum requirement. % Fixed crash when changing Display Mode while playing a tab.

Release 1.27 % MIDI playback: fixed a crash that occurred with some tablatures.

Release 1.26 % Rhythm slash: fixed a rendering bug involving beamings of 16th notes. % Display an error dialog in case the required system fonts cannot be opened.

Release 1.25 % MIDI playback: added a "Play Selection" function. It will play the selected part and then stop, so you can repeat it with your guitar. A "Play Selection"

button is available among those that can be added to the toolbar.

Release 1.24 % Fixed a crash that occurred opening certain tablatures.

Release 1.23 % MIDI playback: added an option to mute either the guitar or the bass score (MIDI -> Mute).

Release 1.22 % 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)

Release 1.21 % MIDI playback can be paused. A Pause button is available among those that can be added to the toolbar.

Release 1.20 % Fixed "Play from selection" to work correctly in presence of repeated sections.

Release 1.19 % 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 over the current selection.

Release 1.18

% 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.

Release 1.17 % 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.

Release 1.16 % Chord diagrams were rendered with an extra string (e.g. 7 strings for 6 strings guitars). Fixed.

Release 1.15 % It's now possible to switch among three display modes: % Normal (the same as the previous versions) % Tablature only % Notation only % Spotlight support: a Spotlight plugin has been integrated in TabView, so you can find your tabs more easily. % Fixed the rendering of Eb chord names (they were mistakenly printed as E#).

Release 1.14 % Added a Guitar Setup panel (View->Guitar Setup) which display information about the guitars and tuning used in the tablature. % MIDI playback: capo is handled in the same way as PowerTabEditor. % MIDI playback: PowerTabEditor allows the tabber to specify a notation offset for a tuning. While it applies the offset when displaying the standard notation, it doesn't apply it when playing the song. TabView now behaves in the same way.

Release 1.13

% MIDI playback: improved handling of tabs with both low and hi melodies.

Release 1.12 % Starting from this release, OS X 10.2 is no longer supported. The minimum requirement is OS X 10.3.9. % Added support for the Apple Remote: it can be used to control the MIDI playback.

Release 1.11 % Code cleanup: removed the workaround for an OS X 10.4 bug which prevented to correctly export tabs to MIDI files on Intel machines. OS X 10.4.9 includes the official fix from Apple. If you are affected by the bug, please update your system. % Rhythm slash: guitar in markers have been added.

Release 1.10 % A drawer with a list of the sections of the score has been added. It allows to jump easily to the desired parts of the tablatures. % MIDI playback: guitar volumes are more similar to those produced by PowerTabEditor. % MIDI playback: the rhythm slash doesn't get out of sync when there are multibar rests.

Release 1.9 % MIDI playback: it's possible to select and loop over a part of the tab. % MIDI playback: improved the handling of alterations of pace (ritardando/accelerando). % MIDI playback: fixed a bug when dealing with directions pointing to a position with multiple signs.

Release 1.8 % Rhythm slash: fixed the rendering of beams. % MIDI playback: added autoscroll options.

% MIDI export: due to a bug of Mac OS X 10.4, MIDI files generated on Intel machines contained invalid data. Since Apple still hasn't provided a fix for the bug, a workaround has been implemented and now TabView generates working files on Intel Macs as well.

Release 1.7 % MIDI generation has been moved in a background thread so that the application won't feel unresponsive just before playing or exporting a tab.

Release 1.6 % Font handling has been improved. Helvetica is now used as a fallback for any font that cannot be found. For optimal results, Helvetica, Times and Baskerville should be installed.

Release 1.5 % It's now possible to control the speed of MIDI playback. You might need to edit your toolbar to add the slider. % When generating MIDI data from a tab, the tempo marker of the first bar of the currently displayed score (e.g guitar score) is used as a default value for the other score (e.g. bass score). This is what PowerTab on Windows does and it helps to keep the two parts in sync even if the tempo is not properly set in both the scores. % A workaround for the OS X 10.2/10.3 bug that prevented to print the tabs correctly has been implemented.

Release 1.4 % In order to be OS X 10.2 compatible, the PPC binary has been compiled with GCC 3.3.

Release 1.3 % Fixed a problem which prevented to view correctly tabs containing floating texts using unavailable fonts. % Added a document icon.

Release 1.2 % Fixed a bug that prevented to print the last page correctly in some circumstances.

Release 1.1 % % % % Added MIDI support. Added a toolbar. Improved a bit the rendering speed when scrolling the document. When launched it'll prompt for a tab to open, unless it's been started by double clicking on a document. % Keyboard can be used to scroll through the tab (using page up/down, home, end, arrow keys).

Release 1.0 % First public release