Welcome to the Django tablature softwarepage
Django is a tablature editor and composer
for lutes, guitar, cittern, bandora, mandolin, gamba
and other plucked instruments,
such as banjo, ukulele, theorbo, mandora, dulcimer, etc.
There is now a discussion group on the software maintained by myself
Download the demo version (9.6.8.0)
Django supports the following features:
- Book format publishing (see an illustration in PDf format)
- Unicode enabled
- Full-page WYSIWYG editing of multiple systems
- Transparency between tablature and regular notation
- Customized tuning of tablature instruments, including re-entrant tunings
- Supports up to 16 courses (strings) and 24 frets
- MIDI format import and export and abc format import
- Customized chord grids and alfabeto, and automated chord calculator
- Old-style (square notes), Baroque cursive, and modern music font
- Customized tablature fonts
- Tablature and notation transposition
- Support for early music clefs such as F clef on 4th line and G clef on third
- Baroque guitar alfabeto and chord charts
- Export to the MusicXML format
- Up to six foot pedals and 4 knee pedals for pedal steel guitar
See the new tutorials section for more information on how to get started
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is shareware software. It relies entirely upon registered users for its
current and future development. You can register as a Django user by sending
me a check for US $80. This charge covers all future upgrades, no matter
how expensive the software gets in the future. Registration ensures not
only access to the fully enabled program, it also gives you provides you
with personalized help, allows you to make suggestions for improvement,
etc. Finally, registering brings you unique documents in DJ format not
available otherwise, such as complete facsimiles in djvu format, and the
John Dowland project file - which contains already more pieces than
the Poulton edition - and the accompanying digital facsimiles.
Download the free demonstration version of Django (Django 9.6.7.5 Version date: 2009-09-19) |
Here are some illustrations of some of the features offered by the Django software:
- Screenshot of Tablature: Django offers an intuitive interface to input tablature, either solo, or together with other instruments in tablature or regular notation.
- Screenshot of Notation mode: You can also suse Django to input regular notation, with Renaissance style clefs. Note on the bookshelves on the left of the screen: Django indexes documents automatically for you, based on categories you define. Each bookshelf contains multiple Django documents, that are themselves divided into multiple sections.
- A transcription from the Siena manuscript. PDF display of Django tablature and notation Django allows you to produce quality PDF documents for printing and distribution on the WEB.
- Extended PDF and MIDI demo: Django allows you to produce whole PDF books with titlepages, that include very different combinations fo instruments and notations, including the now arcane alfabeto system used for Baroque guitar.
That document also includes a transcription of the arrangement by J.B. Besard of Dowland's Lachrimae, that no one so far has been able to make sense of...
- Extended notation demo: This page shows Django's XML indexing capabilities, which allows you to publish a document on the WEB easily, together with a PDF and MIDI renditions, without having to worry about each file's link. The PDF document on that page also shows the use of a titlepage.
- Django also produces quality MIDI files that can be converted to WAV and MP3 formats with a tool like Timidity. You can produce fairly complex arrangements that will give you a good idea of what the final result would sound likes in actual performance setting.
Here are some examples:
- The prelude for harpsichord and guitar by Manuel Ponce
- One of my own modern compositions
- My arrangement of the English 17th century tune, Cold and raw
- Enjoy creating unplayable music, like this modern duet arrangement of Willoughby, Welcome home
Visit the free publications for lute and guitar page
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