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- POWER TAB EDITOR 1.7 README
- ===========================
-
- ** BEFORE INSTALLING VERSION 1.7, IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU UNINSTALL ANY PREVIOUS
- VERSION OF THE PROGRAM **
-
- Overview
- --------
- Power Tab Editor is a tablature authoring tool for Windows 95/98. It allows for the
- creation of music scores that can be printed out and played back via MIDI. It is
- intended to be used for guitar parts only and should not be used if you're looking for
- a full blown sequencer.
-
- Requirements
- ------------
- - Microsoft« Windows 95 or greater *
- - Microsoft« Common Controls version 4.70 or greater
- - Microsoft« Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher **
- - Microsoft« HTML Help files **
- - Pentium 166 Mhz or greater ***
- - 32MB RAM ***
-
- WHAT TO DO AFTER RUNNING THE EDITOR
- ===================================
-
- 1) CHECK OUT WHAT'S NEW!
- - Select the What's New menu item on the Help menu.
-
- 2) TURN ON AUTOSAVE!
- - Select the Options menu item on the View menu. Under the general options there
- should be an item called "Autosave after n minutes". Set the minutes to 1, and make sure that
- the checkbox is checked. This will automatically save the current document to disk after every
- minute. If the program crashes, you can recover the last autosaved file by using the Recovery
- Tool on the Tools menu. This tool will list the last 5 autosaved files, starting with the
- most recent. Simply click on the file to load it into the editor. (The autosaved files are
- saved to a folder called Autosave in the directory where you installed Power Tab.)
-
- 3) MIDI OUTPUT
- - Select the Setup menu item on the MIDI Menu. This will allow you to choose a
- MIDI output devices on your machine.
-
- 4) SCORE SPLITTAGE!
- - Each PT document is split into 2 parts, a "guitar" score and a bass score. Place
- all the guitar parts in the guitar score, and the bass guitar parts in the bass score. This
- follows the same convention that most guitar magazines/songbooks use. Select Guitar Score or
- Bass Score on the View menu to toggle between scores. All operations that you perform act on
- the ACTIVE score only.
-
- QUICK GUIDE TO CREATING SCORES
- ==============================
-
- The following are the steps I follow when creating a new score...
-
- 1) Select the New File menu item from the File menu. Hit the ok button on the New Power Tab
- File dialog
-
- 2) Select the Song Attributes menu item from the View menu. Enter all info about the song.
-
- 3) Select the Setup menu item from the Guitar menu. Add all the guitars you will need in
- the SCORE (note that the guitars listed are for the active score only). You can have up to
- 7 guitars combined total in both scores. ie. 6 guitars + 1 bass guitar, 5 guitars + 2 bass gtrs
-
- 4) While the above dialog is open, click the Chord Diagram List tab. Add any chord diagrams
- that will be used in the score.
-
- 5) Start tabbing out the song.
-
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- Footnotes
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * The program has not been tested on any version of Microsoft« NT/2000. It may or may
- not work on this OS. I do not have access to these products so I have no way to verify
- program runnability at present time.
-
- ** These components are needed to view the Power Tab Editor help file, which is in HTML
- format. If you're using Windows 98 or higher, you have all the necessary files to open
- the help file.
-
- *** The CPU and RAM requirements were the setup used on the computer that the program was
- built on. The program has not been tested on a setup with lower values than these, it does
- not mean that the program will not run on these machines.