About TabRasa Studio
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TabRasa Studio takes a cryptic, messy guitar tab and hands back a clean, legible, playable one. Paste a raw ASCII tab, paste alphaTex, or upload a Guitar Pro file; it renders the notation, plays it back at any speed with a metronome and a moving cursor, and explains the symbols in place — built for the moment just before fluency.
Everything happens in your browser. Your tabs are parsed and played locally; nothing is uploaded to a server on the free and self-host tiers.
Open source
The application is MIT-licensed. Clone the repository, run it locally, and deploy it however you like — no backend is required for the core features.
Built with
SvelteKit, Svelte 5, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. Guitar Pro parsing and audio synthesis use alphaTab (MPL-2.0), used as a dependency; we own all rendering. 3D views use three.js.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome from humans only. Pull requests authored or opened by autonomous agents are not accepted; if you use AI tooling to assist, disclose it and make sure the code reflects your own understanding.