TEFpad

Matthieu Leschemelle

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About this app

TEFpad is a tablature editor designed for Android tablets and phones that implements most features available in the TablEdit desktop program.

Just like TEFview for Android, our free file viewer, TEFpad opens, displays, prints and plays all TablEdit files (.tef format). It imports as well many types of music files (ASCII tablatures, ABC files, MusicXML, MIDI, Guitar Pro, TabRite, PowerTab...).

But TEFpad isn't just a file viewer like TEFview. It's a full-featured score editor, and the free version lets you try it out for yourself.
However, this free version has a few critical limitations: only the first 16 measures can be saved, a watermark is added on PDFs and you can't copy the contents of one file into another file...
To get rid of these limitations, you can purchase TEFpad Pro from within the app (select "Upgrade to TEFpad Pro")

The .tef files saved with TEFpad can be opened and modified in the TablEdit desktop program that offers advanced capabilities not completely available in TEFpad.

Download the step by step How-To FAQ: http://tabledit.com/ios/TEFpadFAQ.pdf

For more information or to download a demo of TablEdit, go to the TablEdit web site: http://www.tabledit.com.

Specifications:

- Open/Import TablEdit, ASCII, ABC, MIDI, Music XML, PowerTab, TABrite and GuitarPro files
- Display tablature and/or standard notation
- English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese and Italian language support
- Embedded Help (tap the info button in the top-right corner of the screen)
- File manager
- Email files as attachment
- PDF export. The PDF can be emailed or opened in a third party app
- MIDI Playback with full real time control (speed, pitch, volume and MIDI instrument)
- Metronome and count down settings
- Customize background and foreground color for screen
- Export playback as a MIDI file
- ABC file export
- Time and Key signature setup along with a transpose feature
- Measures management (Add/Delete/Copy/Move)
- Instrument setup (String number, Tuning, Capo, Clef...)
- Quantize notes (after a MIDI import)
- Enter notes and rests in the tablature or standard notation
- Edit notes (duration, velocity, special effect, staccato...)
- Create chord diagrams
- Insert text, tempo changes, pick strokes and fingerings
- Reading guides (repeats and endings)
- Support for Page turning
- Print options dialog
- Pick-up measure
- Grace note management

Ratings and reviews

I'm not a music expert and wanted to edit existing tabs to tweak measures here and there. I bought TEFpad and upgraded to Pro so I could save more than 16 measures. The app is unintuitive and I quickly became frustrated with it. There's no tooltips explaining what each button does and the documentation needs work. I couldn't find a reference guide that explained how to do things like change the instrument being played. Prepare for a lot of trial and error and frustration initially.

Refunded. I love the desktop version but this was, hand on heart with no exaggeration, the most pathetic excuse for an app I have ever seen. Just something as simple as copying and pasting or moving between bars, scrolling up and down your sheet was a long, drawn out affair involving far far too many buttons and back and forth. Honestly whoever designed the Android version of this needs sacking, it was honestly laugh out loud bad. The worst app I have ever used, period.

For all those times you wish you had the tools to edit your midi files tracks right down to the hammer ons and bends and everything else under the sun when it comes to wanting to modify every characteristic of every single note or groups of notes, this is it. It's not easy at first Beavis, though once understood what does what and sort out how, be prepared for the onset of screaming fans like your somehow amazing all the sudden, all because of how much more dialed in your song editing became.

What's new

Improved display and interface