Creating Tab with or from MuseScore

• Feb 25, 2012 - 04:03

Is it possible to create tablature using Version 1.1? If not does anyone know of a tablature program that is compatible with MuseScore?

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• Feb 25, 2012 - 09:51

For an overview of the tabulature feature of ver 2.0, you may look here .

Please note that ver 2.0 is still under development and that page describes the current situation: details may change (and probably will). It should give a reasonable idea, though.

M.

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• Feb 27, 2012 - 11:43

When I click on staff, go to the staff properties menu and beginning editing strings two things occur that prevent me from creating a banjo tab:
1. The strings do not stay in the correct pitch order
2. When I have edited the fifth and final string and click apply the program crashes

This was done with MuseScore 2.o Nightly Build (5382)

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• Feb 28, 2012 - 15:37

Yes, there is more to this; or better, to the algorithm linking pitches and frets. I am still trying to understand. For the moment being, it does not seems to me it can cause crashes, more likely it does strange things when changing the pitch of a note and/or when undoing such a change (see #15191: Tablature doesn't like unisons and/or large spans between frets).

If you have a reproductible procedure to get a crash, it would surely be a big help.

Another point: about the "stange tempo text" quoted by Chen Lung. No element is strange in it; it is a matter of spacing: the tempo text and the stems giving the note values overlap. Unconvenient, but I do not see a simple way to fix it; for the moment being, move the tempo text out of the way manually.

Thanks,

M.

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• Feb 29, 2012 - 05:25

@ Strat:

1) Do you have linked staves? Staff linking, particuarly between 'pitched' and TAB staves is not very reliable at the moment.

2) Apply or OK buttons refer to the "Edit Staff/Part Properties" dlg box, I think. What did you change in this dlg box? Only the string data? Only the staff type? Only the staff type properties ("Edit" button)? All of them?

Should it happen again, if you can upload the score as it was before the crash and a description of the operations you did in that dlg and that led to the crash would be very useful to locate the bug(s).

Thanks,

M.

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• Feb 29, 2012 - 06:48

Miwarre.

I have just used MuseScoreNightly-r5394 and it has worked well without crashing! The only issue I have now is that the banjo tab still has six lines despite the fact that I edited them to only six. Not a major problem as the bottom line on the tab can be ignored.

Thanks, S.

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• Feb 29, 2012 - 09:24

Click the Edit button next to the notation type selector in Stave properties.

You can then define the number of strings.

@MiWarre - was playing around with r5395 last night, and was unable to produce a crash by editing that dialogue, so maybe you fixed that when you rewrote the code??

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• Mar 22, 2012 - 02:36

MuseScoreNightly (2.0) has crashed while I as using it and now won't reopen. I keep getting a "Restore Windows)" message but still can't reopen the score. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Strat.

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