Reference Guide

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Tablature Settings dialog
The next time you want to use these settings for a track, choose your Preset in the Staff View
Layout dialog box from the Presets drop-down list.
Tablature
The Tablature tab has these fields:
• Method. Choose a tablature method from the Method drop-down list. There are three methods
to determine how the TAB is displayed:
• Floating. Analyzes all events in a track and attempts to optimize tablature with reference to
open position
• Fixed. This specifies where on the neck these notes should be played. When Fixed is
selected, the Finger span and Lowest fret fields are used together to define the “box” where
the notes are displayed. The Finger span parameter determines how many consecutive frets
will be used to display the note. For example, if Finger span is set to 4, then SONAR will
attempt to place all the notes within those 4 frets. The Lowest Fret then determines where on
the fretboard will the notes be displayed within the Finger span. The red box in the fretboard
display above the parameters changes to reflect the settings in these two parameters.
• MIDI Channel. This uses the event’s MIDI channel to determine which string the note should
be displayed on. This is useful for MIDI Guitarists who record parts in MONO mode, where
each string transmits on a different MIDI channel. When MIDI Channel is selected, the user
chooses which series of MIDI Channels SONAR receives on by typing a number into the 1st
Channel field (use values between 1 - 11). Selecting 1 will cause it to use MIDI channels 1 - 6,
selecting 2, 2 - 7, and so on. Checking the Skip Channel 10 (G50) check box tells SONAR that
your guitar is not transmitting on channel l0, so SONAR has to use other channels to display
your data.
• Number of Frets. The number in this field determines how many frets the instrument has
that you want to generate a TAB for.
• String Tuning. Choose the instrument from the drop-down list and number of strings from the
Number of Strings field.
The open string pitches for the instrument you choose automatically appear in the string number
fields at the bottom of the dialog box.
Customize any of the open string pitches by using the + or - buttons on the String Number fields.
Fretboard
The Fretboard tab has these fields:
• Texture. Choose a texture from the drop-down list.
• Orientation. If you want to reverse the standard string orientation, click Low String on Top
(Mirror).
Both the Staff View Layout dialog box and the Tablature Settings dialog box create tablature
settings for a whole track at a time. To modify tablature for selected parts of a track, select part of a
track and use the Regenerate TAB command.