Simple Unit Tab Editor

Being able to play an instrument doesn’t just mean knowing how to handle it. Music theory is an important part of music composition, and learning songs is easily done through tablatures. These are visual representations of how an instrument needs to be played on a specific song, and you can create your own with Simple Unit Tab Editor.

It doesn’t take a lot of time or effort to get the application installed and because of the tools used to build it, you can also deploy it directly on a thumb drive to carry it around and use on other computers. This makes sure that system registry entries are not modified, thus keeping the target PC intact.

The visual design is minimalistic, and allows individuals of all levels of experience to quickly get the hang of things. Most of the space represents the edit area, which automatically fills up with empty tabs for either guitar or bass. Editing is done on the spot, with the possibility to directly print out tabs on a sheet of paper.

The application also comes with impressive documentation. Apart from general application instructions, it also comes with tab hinds and chord notations so you can properly write down all elements of a song for that particular instrument.

However, editing can be a little frustrating at least to keep the structure of the tab clean. This is because placeholder characters don’t get replaced when writing down notes, so the tab stretches a lot more than you probably want it to. You can save all work under the TXT format, but you first need to provide the location, otherwise the operations ends up with an error message and you lose all progress.

All things considered, we can safely state that Simple Unit Tab Editor is a straightforward, practical application with which to create bass, or guitar tabs, print them out, or save under the TXT format. Apart from a few stability issues here and there, it’s an intuitive environment to work in.