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Guitar Tab Creation App - Recommendations?
I'm often away from my guitars, but get the urge to sketch out a guitar part or something I want to learn to play on guitar later on. I came to the idea that would be useful to have an app on iPhone/iPad that would allow me to create tabs (and perhaps audition them with MIDI playback), and then print/export those later as sheet music. Ideally, it would be great to have an app that allows me to plug in a MIDI keyboard (like a Korg nanoKEY) to sketch out parts in a loop, and have that transcribed as guitar music.
A few apps seem to come close, but there are some problems. The most obvious solution was an app I already had: Jam Maestro. But the MIDI keyboard implementation was a bit wonky (it seems to forget MIDI assignments every time I switch to a new instrument/track), and there's a bit of a learning curve to the interface.
GuitarPro is an app for tab playback and editing, but the iOS version is pretty limited in terms of creating tabs from scratch. I looked at a few others - such as Guitar Tabs X, but all of them seem to lack a key feature or four that I need. Most notably, a lot of them only allow you to make tab for one part at a time, so you couldn't make a score with lead, rhythm, and bass guitar, for example. Also, there's the problem that even if you could use a keyboard to program notes into a tab app, the app may interpret those notes as being played way up at the 21st fret on a low string, as opposed to arranging them in way that makes more musical and practical sense.
I know there have to be other options out there - can anyone recommend something? How about any of these?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/guitar-notation-full-guitar-tabs-chords-bass/id1144465456?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/app/reflow-score-writer/id517574672
Comments
Never had a problem with Jam Maestro, but I've more just played around with it than tried to do much serious with it.
Stave 'n' tabs
This is quite nice.
I use reflow for this. It's a bit wonky but it's what I know. It doesn’t have live midi input AFAIK. Notion seems to be more popular but I haven't used it.
I use notion. Not sure if there's a way to hook up an external keyboard but the onscreen keyboard and fretboard work for me. There are some bugs but overall it's pretty decent.
After looking at a few YouTube videos on Notion for iPad, this app looks great. Here are a couple you may find helpful: