PowerTab vs. TablEdit

klaatu

Just wondering if any of you have done a comparison of these two programs and why so many people seem to use PowerTab (other than it's free, pretty good reason!). I've been wrestling with PowerTab and find TablEdit to be much more intuitive. Also, the PT "help" files are not all that helpful and seem to leave a lot out. I just can't seem to figure out how to do some simple things.

On the other hand, $60.00 is a lot to spend for a tab package (TablEdit) if there's a good one available for free.

Craig Bumgarner

I use both but mostly just to read files. I kind of prefer Powertab, but that may because I use it more. One issue is that there is no Powertab for Mac. Tabledit goes both ways.

Craig

klaatu

Yes, it does go both ways, but they are separate licenses, unlike some products where you get both on the same disc. If you have a Windows machine (as I do) and happened to have TablEdit installed on it (as I dont), AND you are thinking of switching to a Mac when you can afford to (as I am), you can't just port it over, you have to buy a new license. They did say they'd give me a discount of about half off for the Mac license if I had already bought the Windows one, but that just doesn't make a lot of sense for me to do, so I think I'm going to wait and struggle with PowerTab some more.

Joli Gadjo

Actually Craig, there are two softwares for Mac to read pt files.
Unfortunately, as you mentioned you have to buy the software if you want to use all the features. The demo version should work for a couple of weeks only before it locks.
But (here's the trick), if you don't want to buy it, and just use it as read-only... each time it locks, put the file "info.tellini.mac.TabView.plist" in the trash, empty it, and the demo version starts over again for 2 weeks.
Otherwise you can always import pt files to guitar pro, if you bought this one...

There are two versions, with different features :
http://www.tellini.org/mac/tablatures/
http://www.tellini.org/mac/tabview/

Craig Bumgarner

Thanks Steph,

I glad I run Windows on a PC, it is so much easier than a Mac

Sorry, couldn't help it.


Craig

random

I bought TablEdit via PayPal but either lost my registration or never received it - and none of the emails to the guys mentioned on the site of TablEdit ever got through or if they did I never received a reply - is this still working?

Snapcase

Any PowerTab and/or GuitarPro to Tabledit converter for Mac? I use TableEdit and I found converters for PC but not for Mac.

Thanks.

Snapcase

BTW, does anyone make LilyPond run? It always gives an error.