I actually started with a program called RandyTab. It was pretty great considering I had never seen a program like it before, but it's basically a poor man's PowerTab. Since you don't like PowerTab, I guess you would have hated it. I actually prefer the interface of PowerTab to GuitarPro, but GP5 beats PTEditor badly vis a vis actual functionality. I vaguely remember trying TablEdit out of curiosity, but I was already accustomed to PT and, thus, laughed upon using it. I was only curious because GP had a list of files it could import and TablEdit files was one of them.

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