Creating a tab from scratch

[Perlence]

@matejkocevar wrote:

I'm kinda new to python and trying to write a code that writes some chords into a GP file. Is it possible to make a new file from zero? So far I'm only able to parse an existing GP file and then change the notes.

[Perlence]

Hello. Yes, I admit, creating a blank tab is not as easy as it should be. I've made some changes in the develop branch to make better default values.

So, pull the latest changes from develop and try this code to make a tab with one track and one blank measure:

import guitarpro

song = guitarpro.base.Song()
track = guitarpro.base.Track(name='Track 1')
track.strings = [guitarpro.base.GuitarString(n, v)
                 for n, v in enumerate([64, 59, 55, 50, 45, 40], start=1)]
measure = guitarpro.base.Measure()
measure.voices = [guitarpro.base.Voice(), guitarpro.base.Voice()]
for voice in measure.voices:
    voice.addBeat(guitarpro.base.Beat())
track.addMeasure(measure)
song.addTrack(track)

guitarpro.write(song, 'blank.gp5')

[matejkocevar]

Thanks!

[pasan9]

Hi!
I'm trying to write a tab from scratch from a music21 stream and an array of finger positions for the relevant stream, could you update this code to match the latest version?
Thanks!