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"Being able to add backup to a song has been so helpful in getting the feel of what it's like to jam with others which I don't have the opportunity to do. And being able to add the metronome to the song is wonderful in keeping my timing accurate and helping me to learn not stop at my mistakes and to keep going."
Angie Sumpter - Texas, USA

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This dialog covers a number of advanced options relating to the way TablEdit performs certain operations.



Auto-load last open File

If this option is selected, TablEdit will automatically re-load the file that was open the last time you exited the program.

Ledger lines in notation

In order to provide a cleaner interface, TablEdit no longer displays the dotted, grey lines intended to facilitate note entry outside the musical stave by default. If you wish these lines to be displayed this can be achieved by selecting this option. The result, although less esthetic, can be useful when entering notes directly in the stave.

Simulate Human Playing

This introduces slight, random time lags and volume changes in order to simulate natural variations in performance.

Rollover help

Selecting this option activates the "rollover" help function. This is available for each button in the palettes, the icons in the tool bar and various other symbols in the tablature. Placing the mouse pointer on any of these will call up a text bubble identifying its function.

Inclined beams in notation

Objectively speaking, the ability to display and print inclined beams in the musical stave is an improvement compared to earlier versions where beams were systematically displayed and printed horizontally. You may now choose which of these two possibilities you prefer.

In order to set the actual degree of inclination, see Tutorial - Notation Display.

Save/Load Configuration with Files

This option allows all of the display, printing and header/footer parameters to be saved along with the *.tef file. All of these will then automatically be loaded when the file is opened again.

Conversely, if this option is active, when you open a *tef file containing such configuration parameters these will replace the basic settings you've made in TablEdit. An asterisk displayed beside the TablEdit version number in the "Title Information" indicates that the currently loaded *.tef file contains such parameters.

When several files are open at once, these configuration changes are applied to :
-in all other windows if no other file has been saved using this option.  
-in only the active window if this contains a configured file.  
-in the active window and those not containing configured files.  

First MIDI Instrument privileged

When this mode is active, TablEdit uses a MIDI channel for each string of the first module which has not previously been defined as a Mono channel (See Instrument>Module).

This allows the management of simultaneous pitch-bends on several strings and gives more depth and realism to the audio playback.

In addition, when exported to a MIDI file, each string of the "privileged instrument" occupies a MIDI channel of its own. This makes it a simple means of exporting MIDI files which can later be re-imported into TablEdit or, perhaps, another application without losing the fingerings of the original tablature. The RTMF format offers even more advantages from this point of view.

Note to programmers: MIDI files making use of this option are flagged with a 0x10 MIDI event at the beginning of each track. For a guitar using standard tuning (EADGBE), the high E string occupies channel 0, the B string channel 1, etc...

Blind friendly

When this option is active, TablEdit will produce a sound each time the cursor is moved via the keyboard. The pitch of the sound corresponds to that of the string of the tablature or the line in the musical stave. The intensity of the sound is dependent on the horizontal position of the cursor within the current measure.

Rewind when playback completed

Causes the tablature to be "rewound" to the first measure when MIDI playback is interrupted after having reached the end of the tablature.
 
Print Colored Notes

This allows notes in the classical notation to be displayed and printed in different colors, depending on the note selected. When you click on this option, a dialog box in which you can select the colors to be used is opened.

Ad-Tab for Left Hand Fingerings

This gives you the ability to display the fret number in color or within a coloured symbol, following the left hand fingering.
 
Capo Doesn't Impact Notation  
  
Normally, the virtual capo is taken into account when displaying notes in the classical stave. This often leads to the necessity of changing the key signature in order to avoid excessive accidental alterations in the stave. This option tells TablEdit to ignore the virtual capo when calculating note pitch. For example, a piece played using basic C shapes but played with a capo on the 7th fret is, technically, written in the key of F#. The problem, of course, is that its practically impossible to actually play from these notes as each note has to be recalculated individually. The option does not, however, affect the audio pitch of MIDI playback.  
  
Automatic cursor advancement

This activates the automatic cursor advancement. This means that each time you enter a note in the tablature the cursor is automatically advanced along the same string by an interval equal to the current note value. This function can also be toggled on and off with [Alt]+[Space].