Taboo is designed to be a very feature-rich editor, and although it is still rather early in development it has quite a few capabilities already to make it considerably easier to use than, say, Word.

• Intuitive editing of units of tablature units (notes, lines, bars, and so on)
• Multiple modes of input
• Expected editor features (undo/redo, tabbed documents) plus some handy shortcuts (block copy/paste, automatic annotations)
• Extensibility of input via configuration of available drums and notes
• It’s free!

Some other features planned for future versions include:

• Tab file system management
• Rebinding of command keys
• Interpretation and conversion between common tab formats
• Output to DOCX/ODT formats
• MIDI playback
• Live input (pressing keys in time to insert notes on the fly)

Watch the Pipeline for more details on what’s to come as development progresses.