Power Tab Editor Alternatives for Mac

Power Tab Editor is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is MuseScore, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Power Tab Editor and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Power Tab Editor are TuxGuitar, Guitar Pro, Avid Sibelius and Impro-Visor.

Power Tab Editor alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps but may also be Digital Audio Workstations. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Power Tab Editor.

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Power Tab Editor

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Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass...

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MuseScore
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70 MuseScore alternatives
MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
- - MuseScore is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Power Tab Editor.
- - MuseScore is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Power Tab Editor.
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MuseScore Features
1. WYSIWYG SupportMuseScore integrates a WYSIWYG editor to edit the look and content of a document, page, or file.
2. Works OfflineMuseScore can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
3. Support for MIDIMuseScore includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
4. Ad-freeMuseScore doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
5. PortableMuseScore can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Transpose
Music XML Support
Export to PDF
Automatic positioning
SMuFL support
Support for Android Things
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Musescore is a great program, but its pdf-score translator is not advanced yet.
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TuxGuitar
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Free • Open Source
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58 TuxGuitar alternatives
A Multitrack tablature editor and player.
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TuxGuitar Features
1. PortableTuxGuitar can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Support for MIDITuxGuitar includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
Multitrack editing
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Guitar Pro
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62 Guitar Pro alternatives
Guitar Pro is first and foremost a program designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings.
- - Guitar Pro is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Power Tab Editor.
- - Guitar Pro is the most popular commercial alternative to Power Tab Editor.
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Some users think Guitar Pro is a great Power Tab Editor alternative, some don't.
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You cannot compose your own music on the iPad version of Guitar Pro. You can only read tabs. You must do all composing on a different device.
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Avid Sibelius
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60 Avid Sibelius alternatives
Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.
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Avid Sibelius Features
1. WYSIWYG SupportAvid Sibelius integrates a WYSIWYG editor to edit the look and content of a document, page, or file.
2. Support for VST PluginsAvid Sibelius support third-party Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugins.
Visual timeline
Ideas Hub
Visual bookmarks
Ribbon Interface
Engraving options
Music XML Support
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You can't write tab in Sibelius
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Impro-Visor
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66 Impro-Visor alternatives
Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes.
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Denemo
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51 Denemo alternatives
GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.
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Denemo Features
1. Support for MIDIDenemo includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
Band-in-a-Box
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63 Band-in-a-Box alternatives
Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.
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Band-in-a-Box Features
1. Support for VST PluginsBand-in-a-Box support third-party Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugins.
2. Music SequencerRecord, edit, or play back music with Band-in-a-Box, by handling note and performance information.
Generative acompaniment
Accompaniment
Aria Maestosa
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38 Aria Maestosa alternatives
Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.
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Aria Maestosa Features
1. Support for MIDIAria Maestosa includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
Finale
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Paid • Proprietary
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50 Finale alternatives
Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific tweaking of instrument sounds for each track.
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Finale Features
1. WYSIWYG SupportFinale integrates a WYSIWYG editor to edit the look and content of a document, page, or file.
Music XML Support
Tonelib JAM
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18 Tonelib JAM alternatives
The Tonelib JAM is a software for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music for guitar and other fretted instruments. You can use Tonelib JAM for regular guitar practicing, for learning songs or for advancing your performance skills to the next level.
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Guitar FX
Backing track
DGuitar
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Free • Open Source
Music Production App
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37 DGuitar alternatives
DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.
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1. Support for MIDIDGuitar includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
Discontinued
The last software release was published on February 20th, 2006.
music21
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40 music21 alternatives
Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.
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