TABrite NOW FREE

Subject: TABrite NOW FREE
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 06:05 PM

Posted at Bluegrass Banjo

"TABrite (Banjo - Guitar - Mandolin - Bass)
The best program, in it's class, for the PC I've ever seen is TABrite. It's fun and easy to use. It is great for writing tablature and playing back the midi file you can make of the tab you wrote. Very good for learning other tabs done with TABrite. Prints out a professional looking copy of the tab. I recommend this program to ALL pickers!

"March 19, 2005
NOTICE!!! The full TABrite tablature writing program for the PC is now FREE! The TABrite authors, Al and Duane Langston, pioneers in tab writing programs for the computer, due to unforeseen problems, no longer have their website. Al and Duane have made the TABrite program free to the music community from the link below. Please note product support will not be available from them since they are no longer on the Internet. BUT...should you need it, help should be available from TABrite users in the many banjo or other music groups on the Net."

Downloads avaialable:

TABrite Full Program – Free – 5.451 KB .zip
TABrite Manual – Free – 1,101 KB .zip
TABview – Free – 1,922 KB .zip
There is also a TABview for Macintosh down at the bottom of the page.

A link is provided to download the "latest DirectX from Microsoft." It doesn't actually say it's required to run the programs, so make your best guess about whether you need it.

You'll need WinZIP or some other unzipper to get the files open.

These are fairly large downloads, but not too unreasonable. My slow dial-up connection took about a half-hour to get all of what looked useful.

I haven't tried this download out yet, but have heard quite a lot of good comment about it. Anyone using TAB for banjo, mando, guitar etc may want to grab the program "just in case" you might want to mess with it later.

John

Subject: RE: TABrite NOW FREE
From: BanjoRay
Date: 26 Mar 05 - 06:50 PM

How does Tabrite compare to TablEdit, which I paid for? Is it any good for tabbing banjo tunes?
Thanks
Ray

Subject: RE: TABrite NOW FREE
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Mar 05 - 12:00 AM

Ray -

I haven't loaded it yet, so can't comment. I've seen some good reviews on it. Since I don't use tab except in emergencies, my comments probably wouldn't mean much anyway.

Note that TABrite was shareware (with a fee for the full version). The guys who wrote it lost their web site, so they just decided to turn it loose.

John