There's a Mac application called Guitar Tab that has the ability to read and write ASCII files as tab. In other words, when you use the program to compose or transcribe your tab, you can export it as ASCII. Likewise, you can import ASCII files and play them with your system's built in MIDI instruments. Is this the kind of thing you guys are talking about? How is sharing tablature easier than sharing song files? I must be missing something. On 2/6/04 2:54 PM, "Sion Morris" <sionwm@cinnamondesign.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Ben
I've noticed that a lot of tabs use a 16 measure like the following though:
|----o-o-----o---|
although I grant that it would be a nightmare to create a 'works every time' feature that would work in a general way, due to the variation in time sigs and especially the different instruments tabbed on each line.
but...
Would it be possible though to program Doggiebox to understand a line pasted such as the example above as a drum hit for every 'o' or 'x' and a gap for every '-' and ignore '|'? Perhaps you could specify these in preferences to take into account the variation. I see it working best by pasting an instrument line at a time - that way you could control which instrument is pasted to in Doggiebox.
It opens up some interesting artistic possibilities - pasting one instrument into another's and pasting the same tab into different expansions of doggiebox windows to create new rhythms (or a terrible din)
What do you think? feasible?
I'm sure even a hit and miss function like this would be a big hit with those of us who have bleeding eyes from manually tabbing :)
Second build works for me now. Big improvement. I really love the sections idea. It was a real pain having to listen to the whole song just to hear an alteration at the end - now its a breeze.
Cool ideas.
Somebody had raised the drum tab one awhile ago. The challenge will be making it work in a general way, since there is no "tab standard".
Also, the MIDI in/out thing is definitely on the list... I wish I had more brains and hands to work at once. ;)
-ben
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