TEFView Basic Setup

[H.P.]

Could someone post basic settings for TEFView? I'm having a hard time figuring out how to get started with it--a lot of the Preference settings are just Greek to me.

[bhGreen]

what are you looking for?

http://www.mandozine.com/music/tabledit_search.php

All i have needed to do is just click on one of the songs ive liked and opened it up, your computer should open up tev with it and then hit play.

If you want to mess with settings within a song, go to the top and hit play, then scroll down to MIDI options. You can adjust the tempo in there, along with a few other things.

You can also go into Score up top, again with a song up, and adjust things in there as well.

[journeybear]

I'm assuming you've already downloaded the Tabledit program, and are just trying to use it, ie, open a file? And perhaps you are getting thrown by the way it displays guitar tablature? I know I did. If you can, get to the search page - from the home page, click on "Practice Tunes" or go here - http://www.mandozine.com/music/tabledit_search.php - (where you can download the program if you haven't already) and follow the instructions:

To list all tunes (50 per page), leave all fields blank and click "Find TablEdit Files" button. You can select the Search Criteria (sorted by tune or date), and Sort Order (ascending or descending). For song searches, you don't need to type the complete name, just the first few letters will do.

Say you want to learn "Whiskey Before Breakfast." All you have to do is type whiskey into the song title field and a dozen songs pop up - not all of them WBB, of course. Select one, decide whether you want to open or save the file (open is better, as you'll want to listen to all versions before you select one you want to keep), and the tab will appear. If it's in guitar tab, you can change that. At the top left, select "Display," and then select "mandolin." Or at the top right, where you see the numbers 1-2-3, select 1 - mandolin. Then to play, either click on the button that looks like a "play/pause" button on a tape deck, or the "Play" option, where the dropdown menu gives you a few more options.

I hope this helps. It takes nearly ten times as long to read these instructions as it does to perform these functions - it's really pretty user friendly. Just like anything new, it takes a little time and doing to get used to it. And I think the program will remember your settings automatically - at least it seems that way on my computer.

Good luck! :mandosmiley:

[bennyb]

Howdy H P
I'm with bhgreen, we need more info about what you're trying to do. It sounds like you've gone to score > options > preferences tab, but I don't know why you'd do that, the default settings should work fine unless there's some particular result you're looking for.
Assuming you've downloaded some tef files, can you click on them and open them, hit play and see and hear them being played? If so, do you want to see notation, tablature, combination of the two? Speed up, slow down? Let us know on the morrow.

My best, benny

[Barbara Shultz]

I know recently, when I've opened TEF files, the TAB is all mushed together. If you go to 'score' then 'options' you see for some reason, the spacing is set at something like -2. I change those negative to 10 and then its readable.

[bhGreen]

I know recently, when I've opened TEF files, the TAB is all mushed together. If you go to 'score' then 'options' you see for some reason, the spacing is set at something like -2. I change those negative to 10 and then its readable.

oh sweet! thanks for that info.. i was wondering why some songs were like that! lol