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In the Staff View Layout dialog box you can choose a preset style of tablature by
choosing from the Preset popup menu, or you can define your own style by clicking
the Define button in the Staff View Layout dialog box to open the Tablature
Settings dialog box.
To Define a Tablature Style
1. In the Staff View Layout dialog box, click the name of the track you want to
define tablature for.
2. Click the Define button (lower right corner).
The Tablature Settings dialog box appears.
3. Click the Tablature tab and choose a tablature method from the Method
dropdown list. There are three methods to determine how the TAB is
displayed:
• Floating - which allows the notes to spread over the entire fretboard
• 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 the notes will be displayed within the
Finger span. The red box in the fretboard display 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. When MIDI Channel is selected,
the user chooses which series of MIDI Channels should be considered.
This is useful for MIDI Guitarists that record parts in MONO mode,
where each string transmits on a different MIDI channel. (Values: 1 - 11).
Selecting "1" in the 1st Channel field will cause it to use MIDI channels 1
- 6, selecting 2, 2 - 7, and so on.)
Note: Select the Skip Channel 10 option if you are using a Yamaha G50 or
other device which reserves channel 10.
4. Type a number into the Number of Frets field. This determines how many
frets the guitar has that the tab is based on.
5. In the String Tuning fields, choose the instrument from the dropdown 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 below the dropdown list.
6. Customize any of the open string pitches by using the "+" or "-" buttons on the
string number fields.
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