Power Tab Editor

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Power Tab Editor
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:PTS17.jpg "Friend of the Devil" by The Grateful Dead in PTE 1.7</td></tr><tr><th>Developer:</th><td>Brad Larsen</td></tr><tr><th>Latest release:</th><td>1.7.0.80 / September 24, 2000</td></tr><tr><th>OS:</th><td>Windows</td></tr>
Use:	Tablature Editor <tr><th>License:</th><td>Freeware</td></tr>
Website:	www.power-tab.net

Power Tab Editor (or PTE) is a guitar tablature/standard notation editor and creator for Windows-based systems, utilizing MIDI playback to generate scores similar to those found in many guitar publications. It is designed as a freeware guitar tab that one can play along to as practice for learning songs and is also used, albeit to a lesser extent, as software for music creation. It incorporates both a treble score, for acoustic and electric guitar, and a bass score for bass guitar.

[edit] History

The current version of the editor (1.7.0.80) was developed by Brad Larsen and released in September 24, 2000. Version 2.0 (a complete rewrite) was planned to be released in 2002, but has now been scrapped. At the end of 2005, Larsen released the Power Tab Parser, which allows for parsing Power Tab files. This tool enables developers to write tools for Power Tabs. It was released under the BSD license. In August 26, 2006, Larsen also released Power Tab Librarian to organize Power Tab files.