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Tablature
The Staff view can display guitar or bass MIDI tracks as tablature. You can generate and edit tablature
or enter notes on either the fretboard or on the tablature staff to create a new track. You can export
tablature to an ASCII file for printing or distribution on the Web.
Tablature Settings
Both the Staff View Layout dialog box and the Tablature Settings dialog box create tablature settings
for a whole track at a time. To modify tablature for selected parts of a track, select part of a track and
use the Regenerate command.
In the Staff View Layout dialog box you can choose a preset style of tablature by choosing from the
Preset popup menu, or you can define your own style by clicking the Define button in the Staff View
Layout dialog box to open the Tablature Settings dialog box.
To Define a Tablature Style
1.
In the Staff View Layout dialog box, click the name of the track you want to define tablature for.
2.
Click the Define button (lower right corner).
The Tablature Settings dialog box appears.
3.
Click the Tablature tab and choose a tablature method from the Method dropdown list. There are
three methods to determine how the TAB is displayed:
•
Floating
- which allows the notes to spread over the entire fretboard
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Fixed
- This specifies where on the neck these notes should be played. When Fixed is selected
the Finger span and Lowest fret fields are used together to define the "box" where the notes
are displayed. The Finger span parameter determines how many consecutive frets will be
used to display the note. For example, if Finger span is set to 4, then SONAR will attempt to
place all the notes within those 4 frets. The Lowest Fret then determines where on the
fretboard the notes will be displayed within the Finger span. The red box in the fretboard
display changes to reflect the settings in these two parameters.
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MIDI Channel
- This uses the event's MIDI channel to determine which string the note
should be displayed on. When MIDI Channel is selected, the user chooses which series of
MIDI Channels should be considered. This is useful for MIDI Guitarists that record parts in
MONO mode, where each string transmits on a different MIDI channel. (Values: 1 - 11).
Selecting "1" in the 1st Channel field will cause it to use MIDI channels 1 - 6, selecting 2, 2 - 7,
and so on.)
Note:
Select the Skip Channel 10 option if you are using a Yamaha G50 or other device which
reserves channel 10.
4.
Type a number into the Number of Frets field. This determines how many frets the guitar has that
the tab is based on.
5.
In the String Tuning fields, choose the instrument from the dropdown list and number of strings
from the Number of Strings field.
The open string pitches for the instrument you choose automatically appear in the string number
fields below the dropdown list.
6.
Customize any of the open string pitches by using the "+" or "-" buttons on the string number fields.
7.
Save your settings by typing a name into the Preset field at the top of the dialog box and clicking
the disk icon next to it. You can remove presets from the list by clicking the X button next to the
disk icon.
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