TablEdit Users Say:
"I find the relative speed option really useful for drilling tough passages. It really lets me isolate and repeat challenging spots to get them under my fingers. It is definitely the most useful program I've found to play and read along with."
Terry Martin - Colorado, USA
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TablEdit uses the standard Windows hotkeys allowing you to open menus from the keyboard by pressing [Alt] plus the letter underlined in the menu name. Items within each menu can then be opened by pressing the letter underlined in each.
In addition, TablEdit uses the following shortcuts:
Editing - Basics
[return] (in stave) enter note on current position
[0..49] (in tablature) enter note on current position
[ . (decimal)] enter rest of current note duration
[Shift]+[A..J] (in tablature) enter note [10..19] on current position
[delete] Remove selected item(s)
[+/-] (positioned on a note) increase/decrease note value with half tone
[Ctrl]+[Z] Cancel the last editing action
[Ctrl]+[Y] Redo the last canceled editing action
[return] (in tablature, on anchor point) open related edit window
Editing - Select, delete, copy, find
[Ctrl]+[A] Select entire current module as a block
[Shift]+[arrow] extend selection block
[Ctrl]+[Insert] Copy selected measures (or notes, depending on context)
[Shift]+[Insert] Paste copied measures (or notes, depending on context)
[Ctrl]+[C] Copy a selected block, note or anchor
[Ctrl]+[X] Cut a selected block, note or anchor
[Ctrl]+[V] Paste a copied or cut block, note or anchor to the cursor position
[Q] Search the module for next occurrence of the of the same element type (chord diagram, cres/dim marker, text, etc.) as that beneath the cursor (in tablature).
[Shift]+[Q] repeat last occurrence search [Q] to the right
[Shift]+[R] repeat last occurrence search [Q] to the left
Editing - moving cursor, view
[Ctrl]+[Space] Toggle automatic cursor advance on/off
[Shift]+[F7] 1/8th Note View
[Shift]+[F8] 1/16th Note View (default)
[Shift]+[F9] 1/32nd Note View
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[F9] 1/64nd Note View
[page up/down] Scroll tablature and notation left or right
[tab] Move cursor forward (offset: current default note duration)
[Ctrl]+[ 
]Once: Go to end of current measure. Twice: Go to beginning of following measure
[Ctrl]+[ 
]Once: Go to beginning of current measure. Twice: Go to end of previous measure
[Ctrl]+[ 
](in notation) move cursor one octave up
[Ctrl]+[ 
](in notation) move cursor one octave down
[Ctrl]+[ ](in tablature) move cursor to the first string
[Ctrl]+[ ](in tablature) move cursor to the last string
[Shift]+[F5] Open "Go to Measure" dialog (also available by clicking to right of the "Notes" zone in the status bar)
[Ctrl]+[Page up/Page down] (in multitrack mode) Scroll tablature and notation up or down within TablEdit window
Editing - correction
[Alt]+[Delete] Moves everything to the right of the cursor the distance of the current duration to the left
[Alt]+[Insert] Moves everything to the right of the cursor the distance of the current duration to the right
[Ctrl]+[+/-] with cursor in tablature: Move a note downwards or upwards across the neck of the instrument. Press [Ctrl]+[+] (to move toward the bass) or [Ctrl]+[-] (to move toward the treble).
[I] Quantize notes in the selection
[J] Automatically correct duration and note placement errors
Formatting
[+] [-] increase/decrease vertical position (of rest, text, ...)
[A] [Z] [E] Stems up, stems down, automatic stem direction.
[X] Inhibit note beams from current position
[Alt]+[D] Force sharp.
[Alt]+[B] Force flat.
[Alt]+[=] Back to alteration standard display.
[O] Offset note head to the right
[Shift]+[O] Offset note head to the left
[K] Add a line break
[W] Horizontal note spacing
[D] Make note invisible in stave
[|] (pipe) control beam position and stem length
[!] remove note stem
[<] [>] horizontal positioning (of fingering, musical symbol, ... )
[Shift]+[U] First press: Hides notes with a dynamic value of pp in the tablature. Second press: Hides them in the Notation. Third press: Re-activates the standard display.
[Shift]+[X] First press: Displays "Dead notes" as X's in the tablature. Second press: Blocks the display of "Dead notes". Third press: Re-activates the display of "Dead notes" within a greyed-out border.
[Shift]+[Y] Systematically displays complete stems for all notes in the tablature (including whole and half notes).
[ _ ] Blocks/Activates the display of "Ringing Notes".
[Ctrl]+[+/-] with cursor in notation: Set position of middle C
Duration
[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F4] Auto-duration
[F4] Set current duration to whole note
[F5] Set current duration to 1/2 note
[F6] Set current duration to 1/4 note
[F7] Set current duration to 1/8th note
[F8] Set current duration to 1/16th note
[F9] Set current duration to 1/32nd note
[Ctrl]+[F9] Set current duration to 1/64th note
[*] (asterisk) Apply current duration to selected note(s)
[Ctrl]+[ . (decimal)] Toggle dotted note mode on/off
[:] Double dotted note
[Ctrl]+[3] Triplet mode
[Ctrl]+[5] Quintuplet
[Ctrl]+[7] Septuplet
[Ctrl]+[9] Nonuplet
[Ctrl]+[0] Decuplet
[L] Tied note
[<] [>] Decrease/increase duration of selected note(s)
Special Effects
[Alt]+[G] Open Grace Note dialog
[B] Brush
[C] Choke
[G] "Ghost" note
[H] Hammer-on
[M] Muted note
[P] Pull-off
[S] Slide
[R] Roll
[N] Remove special effects
[F3] Re-applies the last used Special Effect or, if the cursor is placed on an empty position, repeats the last insertion.
Playback
[F12] Play entire Reading List
[Pause] or [Spacebar] Pause/Resume playback
[F11] Play from current measure to end
[Shift]+[F11] Play from current position to end
[F10] Play current measure
[Shift]+[F10] Play current selection
[Alt]+[F10] Play selected measures.
[Pause] Pause playback
[Escape] Stop playback
[Shift]+[F12] Activates "Monitor" feature
[Ctrl]+[K] Define MIDI options
[Ctrl]+[R] open Reading List dialog
[Shift]+[T] open Midi Event dialog
[<] frequency (of "tremolo" or "vibrato" special effect)
[>] speed (of "roll" special effect)
[>] amplitude (of "vibrato" special effect)
[( ] [ )] Decrease/increase dynamic level of selected note(s)
[V] Toggle dynamics display on/off
[Ctrl]+[H] Note pitch change dialog
Windowing
[F1] Opens this Help file
[Ctrl]+[F1] Open this hotkey list
[F2] Toggle ruler and palettes on/off
[Shift]+[F2] Toggle "Track window" on/off
[Ctrl]+[F2] Toggle "Quick Preview" on/off
[Ctrl]+[B] Toggle Fingerboard on/off
[Ctrl]+[D] Open Chord Manager
[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[D] Open Chord Editor
[Ctrl]+[T] Open Text Manager
[T] Open Text Editor
[Ctrl]+[F] Open Strokes and Fingerings dialog
Tablature management
[Ctrl]+[O] Open a tablature file on disk
[Ctrl]+[S] Save the current tablature file
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[S] Protected save (for printing/saving)
[Ctrl]+[N] Create a new tablature file
[Ctrl]+[P] Print tablature
[Ctrl]+[G] Open Tablature Manager
[Ctrl]+[I] Title Information
[Ctrl]+[Q] Quit TablEdit