Do you need software to write out guitar tab?

[BeardFaceMan]

I want to write out some guitar tab for some songs, what's the easiest way of doing it? Any software out there to do it easily or am I better off just making a template in notepad and using that?

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Guitar pro is pretty good, got full on tabbing capabilities plus playback that sounds tons less shit than the default midi. Can't remember how much it costs though

EDIT: Just checked and apparently it's now quite steep. There's probably software out there that's cheaper or free but I divn't know what it is.

[BeardFaceMan]

Yeah Guitar Pro would have been good because I think that's what people use to make custom DLC for Rocksmith, which would have been handy to have, but as you say it's a bit pricey for something to just write out tab.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Sure there's a knockoff, possibly a Linux based one (on other os too though) tux guitar I think it was called? Seem to recall that doing basically the same thing

[Noodle Lizard]

Musescore 3 is a fantastic piece of software. Free and open source, but does pretty much everything you could ever need for composition and scoring any type of instrument. With the guitar tabs, you can also include strums patterns, slides and other flourishes with pretty accurate playback. If you look at some tutorials, you can really fiddle around with guitar playback too.

https://musescore.org