TablEdit Users Say:
"The Mountain Dulcimer has been my joy in music for the last four years. A friend in the United Kingdom helped me discovered TablEdit about three years ago. It has helped me reacquaint myself with music principles and has assisted me in working out tablature to many songs. My song library has been enhanced with the use of TablEdit. I have also appreciated the patient technical and practical support from Keith Saturn."
Milt Carpenter - Arizona, USA
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Hotkeys
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
[ 
]+[Z]Cancel the last editing action
[ ]+[Y]Redo the last canceled editing action
[return] (in tablature, on anchor point) Open related edit window
Editing - Select, delete, copy
[ ]+[A]Select entire current module as a block
[shift]+[arrow] extend selection block
[ ]+[C]Copy a selected block, note or anchor
[ ]+[X]Cut a selected block, note or anchor
[ ]+[V]Paste a copied or cut block, note or anchor to the cursor position
Editing - moving cursor, view
[alt]+[Space] Toggle automatic cursor advance on/off
[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 1st string
[ctrl]+[ ](in tablature) Move cursor to the 6th string
Editing - correction
[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]+[=] Force natural
[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
[ | ] Control beam position and stem length
[ ! ] Remove note stem
[<] [>] Horizontal positioning (of fingering, musical symbol, ... )
[shift]+[U] Hides notes with a dynamic value of pp in the tablature.
[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
[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
[*] (asterisk) Apply current duration to selected note(s)
[ctrl]+[ . (decimal)] Toggle dotted note mode on/off
[ : ] Double dotted note
[Ctrl]+[3]/[5]/[7]/[9] Triplet, Quintuplet, Septuplet, Nonuplet
[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
[Pause] Pause playback
[Escape] Stop playback
[shift]+[F12] Activates "Monitor" feature
[ ]+[K]Define MIDI options
[ ]+[R]Open Reading List dialog
[<] Set frequency (of "tremelo" or "vibrato" special effect)
[>] Set speed (of "roll" special effect)
[>] Set amplitude (of "vibrato" special effect)
[( ] [ )] Decrease/increase dynamic level of selected note(s)
[V] Toggle dynamics display on/off
[ ]+[H]Note pitch change dialog
Windowing
[ ]+[B]Toggle Fingerboard on/off
[ ]+[D]Open Chord Manager
[ ]+[T]Open Text Manager
[T] Open Text Editor
[ ]+[F]Open Strokes and Fingerings dialog
[ ]+[W]Close window
Tablature management
[ ]+[O]Open a tablature file on disk
[ ]+[S]Save the current tablature file
[ ]+[shift]+[S]open Security (for printing/saving)
[ ]+[N]Create a new tablature file
[ ]+[P]Print tablature
[ ]+[I]Title Information
[ ]+[Q]Quit TablEdit