Sunday, October 18. 2009
Why doesn’t playback emit any sound?
The typical requests can be summarised as “I hear the metronome clicking and then silence”.
The usual culprit is the lack of a Guitar In symbol at the start of the document. Tablatures uses Guitar In’s to determine which instrument (as defined using the Score -> Edit Guitars menu) should be used for playback.
When you create a new document, Tablatures already puts a Gtr I symbol at the beginning.
If you delete it or need to change instrument in the middle of a song, adding a guitar in symbol is very easy to do:
- Tick the Guitar In checkbox in the Musical Symbols Panel:
- Then choose the guitar(s) which should be start playing from the current caret position:
Finally, you might want to make sure that all the guitars you have used are actually defined among the instruments used by the score. So let’s use the Score -> Edit Guitars menu and edit them as needed:
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Here you can choose the MIDI instrument to use, apply some effects and change its tuning.



