Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
Stab, a DAW built around guitar tab
Stab is a guitar-tab sequencer for composing and transcribing, with string-aware editing, recording alignment, and playback through a guitar synth.
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- Guitarists transcribing, learning, or arranging songs
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- The site says Guitar Pro 3–8 and MIDI imports are tested against more than 1,300 files.
Field notes
The editor combines fret position and rhythmic placement in each string lane, with capo and tuning changes affecting pitch. For transcription, the page describes pinning beats to a recording, including rubato passages, and looping selected bars at half speed without pitch change. It also says songs are stored as ZIP files containing plain JSON and can be exported to Guitar Pro 5 or MIDI.
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