TablEdit upgrades...my TAB featured as "tune of the month" there.

[Trapdoor2]

Matthieu (creator of TablEdit), is probably the only software owner/creator that I've ever heard of who actually listens to the users and upgrades almost overnight from ideas sent in.

A few weeks ago, I asked if he could somehow support double-flags for the fifth-string "G" note. I got a response the very next day of "I'm thinking about it" and just a day or two later, a note: "done".

Then, I got an invite to participate in his "Tune of the Month", to show off the new flags. He took my basic TAB of "A Banjo Oddity" and added all the bells and whistles onto the notation staff. The result is here: http://www.tabledit.com/tabs/index.shtml

I'm amazed how nice the notation staff looks now. He added numeric fingering, positions and the aforementioned flags. It is very easy to add in RH fingering as well.

TablEdit just keeps getting better and better. Now to get a real 'banjo' sound out of his MIDI... ;-)

[thereallyniceman]

Well done Marc. Who would have thought it?... Joe Morley as "Tune of the Month"  :-)

The score does look nice and crisp..pity the Midi player doesn't want to play on my "Mavericks" OS iMac computer.   If someone send me the midi file I will see what it sounds like using my "Weaver" sound font!

[thereallyniceman]

Marc sent through the midi file from his TablEdit score and I have worked the magic of the "PolyPhontics" software and replaced the "Dalek" General Midi banjo voice with the sound font that I made from samples of my Weaver banjo.

So here is Banjo Oddity...   played on a Weaver :-)

BANJO ODDITY from the TablEdit Tablature

[Trapdoor2]

So much better! Daleks should be discouraged from attempting to play the banjo anyway.

[Hal Allert]

I hate the sound of banjo MIDI. That is why I purposely changed all of my pieces to nylon guitar. I know it is a banjo but the nylon guitar at least makes it listenable. I experimented with the cello banjo parts, first using picked bass then fingered bass. They all clashed with the nylon guitar sound so I settled on nylon guitar for the cello banjo as well. I drop it down two octaves and drop the first and second banjos down one octave. I leave the piccolo as nylon guitar at the original octave and have to drop the banjeaurine 7/12 of an octave because it is playing in a different key. 

I, too, wish there was a better banjo MIDI. I have been experimenting with creating my own soundfont for the classic banjo but,if I was successful, I don't know if you would hear it on the playback on your end. More to come if I am successful.

[Steve Harrison]

Hi Hal, I use Finale software and the banjo midi it produces is pretty good, the only problem is that it doesn't sound so good when played on other software....Steve. 

Hal Allert said:

I hate the sound of banjo MIDI. That is why I purposely changed all of my pieces to nylon guitar. I know it is a banjo but the nylon guitar at least makes it listenable. I experimented with the cello banjo parts, first using picked bass then fingered bass. They all clashed with the nylon guitar sound so I settled on nylon guitar for the cello banjo as well. I drop it down two octaves and drop the first and second banjos down one octave. I leave the piccolo as nylon guitar at the original octave and have to drop the banjeaurine 7/12 of an octave because it is playing in a different key. 

I, too, wish there was a better banjo MIDI. I have been experimenting with creating my own soundfont for the classic banjo but,if I was successful, I don't know if you would hear it on the playback on your end. More to come if I am successful.