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Agile Partners Tab Toolkit

The perfect companion to GuitarToolkit, TabToolkit is an incredibly powerful app that let's you read and play tablature files on your iPhone or iPod touch. With built-in tab file upload and download capabilities, instrument synthesis and full tempo controls, TabToolkit is a fantastic tool for learning to play new music. -

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A handy little tool for guitar players

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Agile Partners have come up with a great little application for the iPhone. Tab Toolkit offers guitar players a useful tool for storing guitar tab files, viewing them, and playing them through the iPhone speaker or headphones for reference.

Tab Toolkit allows you to load tab files, include Power Tab, Guitar Pro, PDF and text based tabs. Only the Power Tab and Guitar Pro files can be played back through the audio system in Tab Toolkit. The others are available just as references to read.

There are two ways of downloading your tab repository to Tab Toolkit. You can load them from your PC using your iPhones IP address, or you can download them from the web using the inbuilt web browser. Each are nice and easy to use, particularly the nice web based interface.

Seeing as this is still in version 1 there are a few bugs I have picked up. It seems to have a bit of difficulty with tabs that have repeat sections. I have a few picking pattern exercises I have written up in Power Tab that are one iteration with 4 repeats put in the tab, so that if the Power Tab file is played through MIDI it will play them over and over to get an idea of what the exercise should sound like. When Tab Toolkit tries to render these it adds an extra bar with a full 4 beat rest. This results in a stuttered playback, which is a bit annoying. I will be providing feedback to Agile Partners on this bug.

Which brings me to my next point. Agile Partners are obviously aware that there may be some bugs in this first release of Tab Toolkit, and as such they saw fit to provide a feedback mechanism in the application. This is brilliant as it makes it easy for users to provide bug reports, and suggest new capabilities they may be able to build in to their application.

One thing I felt was missing is the capability to print tabs off over WiFi to printer. This would make Tab Toolkit a very powerful application. I teach guitar, and if I was showing my repository of tabs to students, and they wanted a copy of one of them I'd love to just tell them to fire up their printer so I could print it off for them. I have sent through a suggestion to Agile Partners to see if they could add this capability to a future release.

One other little annoyance is that Tab Toolkit can only handle one instrument at a time. If you have multiple guitars and drums, etc you will have to select the instrument you want to read and play back. This is easy enough to do, but it would be nice to be able to hear all parts in playback whilst showing the tab you wish to play along to. Agile Partners have said in their information file that they are wanting to add this feature in to the application, but it may take some time as it is complicated.

Overall Tab Toolkit is a handy application for guitar players. Despite the few bugs it is a great tool, giving you access to your tab collection anywhere, plus allowing you to find and be able to read tab files on the go.

Liked about it	Well built interface, and great web page interface for uploading tabs to your iPhone * Ability to play back Power Tab and Guitar Pro files * Ability to search the web in-app for tabs and download to your repository
Didn't like	A few annoying bugs * Wish you could print tabs over WiFi