There are a nice variety of tools for you to have fun with and learn from. Although they are great for learning, they are also excellent for crafting and saving your own tablature and libraries of it. Most music engraving systems use a proprietary format and encoding, and these are often not easily transferable from one system to the next. These proprietary platforms are all designed to keep you paying. This suite of tools is focused on the raw text format of tabs to keep your work in an open source format that can be easily and freely shared and ported to other platforms.

Tab Studio is a tool for creating tablature. You can write and edit tab and learn about it with a graphical user interface designed to make the entire idea of tab engraving simple, self evident and fun! Tab Studio can switch to almost any tuning for nearly any stringed instrument so your tabs will always have the correct formatting. You can click on the fretboard to create your Tab, or you can switch to the keyboard interface for advanced rapid editing.

Tab Player is a tool for listening to tabs, editing them, importing them into your online library, and exporting them for printing or to pdf. This tool will also show you where the most popular scales are on the fretboard, while allowing you to change to different alternate tunings, such as Open C, Open D etc. You can paste any raw text format Tab into Tab Player, change to the correct tuning and click play to listen to how it will actually sound. Tab Player uses pre-recorded notes to playback plaintext tabs and visualize note placements. It has multiple modes that show the position of scale notes on the fretboard, scale intervals, and adjusts everything automatically for different tunings. All notes were recorded on a 1968 CIJ Fender Stratocaster Reissue, using 8 gauge strings, and Texas Special pickups. This gives this Tab player an amazing warm rich sound over other online instrument players that use robotic midi tones.