Power Tab Editor is a free, open-source musical notation and composition application for Windows operating systems. It is designed for writing, playing, and printing guitar tablature (tabs) and musical notation. It also includes tools for editing, playing, and printing both traditional notation and tablature. Power Tab Editor supports a wide variety of instruments, including guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, and others. It also includes a library of over 2,000 different instruments, including samples of real instruments. It also includes a MIDI input and output for connecting to external MIDI devices. Power Tab Editor features an intuitive graphical user interface with easy-to-use tools for creating, editing, and playing tabs and traditional notation. It also includes a comprehensive library of chords, scales, and arpeggios. It also includes tools for transposing, playing, and printing scores. In addition to its features for creating and editing notation and tabs, Power Tab Editor offers a range of features for sharing music, including exporting tabs and scores to PDF, HTML, and RTF formats. It also offers an online collaboration system for sharing and collaborating on scores with other users.
You cannot write tab in Sibelius
TEFpad opens easily with Powertab, Guitar Pro and TablEdit files and many other file types.
Discontinued The last software release was published on February 20, 2006.
Musescore is a great program, but its pdf score translator is not yet advanced.