I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish when you say “add this as a selection to a new tab.” Tuning is set per file. So, you create a new tab file, then go set the tuning you want and it should stay that way throughout the entire file.
Are you trying to switch tuning in the middle of the song (like Keith tuners)?
The Add Module is to add other instruments. Guitar, Mandolin etc.
Ah. When you create a new file and you select banjo, there are actually three options available: Open G, C, Tenor. I want to create my own selection (module, whatever) that says D tuning, so that I don’t have to go in and change the strings and stuff. So, I want to add the “D tuning” selection in the list to create a new tablature, with the strings and the key already set up.
Hope that makes sense
Hey Archie. I figured out how to change the strings and stuff and I already did the tune. But yeah, it’s that Add Module button that I can’t get to work and you just confirmed you couldn’t get it working either. Let me know if you figure it out and I’ll do the same. Considering I just spent the last five hours doing the tune though, setting up the strings and the key was nothing.
My Reuben tab (pdf) was four pages long and in an effort to bring it all together so I don’t have to stop and scroll the pdf file, I wanted to make a .tef file to play along with, playing all parts without stopping and also so I can change it up a bit if I want like changing the order of the parts or grabbing parts from different arrangements.
OK. I understand what you’re trying to accomplish now. I just checked it out and couldn’t figure out a way to do it either. I just sent an email over to Matthieu (the developer) to see if he has any suggestions. I’ll let you know when he replies.
Hi @Maggie I’m confused. I didn’t say I couldn’t get the Add Module button to work.
When you click on Add Module it creates a new module of the Instrument TAB a kinda clone. You then have to go in to the new Module and configure it for the Instrument you want to create.
Sounds like a great plan to me @Maggie. Believe me I spent as much time figuring stuff out. In the long run it’s not time wasted.
Check out these Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tabledit+tutorial
So now that you have figured how to setup TablEdit in Open D.
How are you getting on Tabbing out the tune ?.
Right. And I can’t get that to work. I want to add a banjo with D tuning. It sort of allows me to create it and name it and everything, but when I click Apply or OK, I then go to the list and it’s not there.
As to you saying it didn’t work, I think I probably saw your earlier comment, which quoted me, saying it didn’t work, and it was in my head that you said it didn’t work, at the time I wrote that reply. 
Silly me.
I finished it, til I decide to change it. I was going to use Earl’s original version in his 5-String Banjo book from way back, but I realized he didn’t use some of the licks that many play today, licks I really like, so I gathered stuff from multiple sources.
I started from scratch and manually put the notes in, then started copying and pasting reused measures and then eventually copied and pasted whole parts in the order I wanted. I’ve since learned about the reading list and how to do repeats so I’ll probably fix that up at some point.
I did find a version of Reuben in the samples included with Tabledit that more closely matches Earl’s original, but I like mine better, plus I’ve already learned it, so…
Alright Alright Alright. Sorry guys. 
Duh, the add module button adds tracks over on the right for other instruments, to the existing tab, I didn’t get that.
When you create a new tablature, you know how you click File, then New, and check a box, then drop down the instrument list and pick one? I wanted Banjo D to be one of those options that I could select and then my new tab pops up with the right key and the strings already tuned to D. No wonder y’all were confused.
It’s too easy to just tune the strings in the new file to waste any more time on it. I’d rather let this one die a quick merciful death. 
A wake perhaps? 
But hey, it was fun talking with y’all. Oh my happy place, I want to go to there 
Hi @Maggie Ok I think I follow, you want to create a Open D tuning and save it as a default setting to the Pre-set list. To the best of my knowledge this is not possible. You can however create a blank tab with Open D tuning and save it to your HD. So next time you want to tab something out in Open D. Just Open the blank tab and save with a new filename. The alternate is to write to Matthieu and ask him if he could add D tuning to the Pre-set list
Excellent, glad to know your figuring it out.
No No, It’s good that you asked the question, @Maggie. That’s how I learned how to use it. In fact I am still learning some of the bells and whistles.
Checkout the TabEdit Forum over on the BHO
https://www.banjohangout.org/topic/319174/
OK, we got our answer. It’s found in this link:
http://www.tabledit.com/help/english/tuning.shtml
“TablEdit can manage up to eight user-defined tunings. The slots for these custom tunings are marked with an asterisk (*) and are located at the bottom of the list of pre-defined tunings. To add a custom tuning to the list, just modify the current tuning to the desired values and click on the custom slot you want it in while keeping [Ctrl] held down. The resulting dialog also allows you to specify a name for your tuning.”
I just tried it out and it worked like a charm.
Hi @Mark_Rocka Ok I got it partially config. It’s not showing a short 5th string and you have to go into Module to change the instrument name.
I just started with Banjo Open G and tuned down the 2nd and 3rd strings. Then, click on one of the modules with a * in front of it while holding down the CTRL key and it prompts you to create a new name.
I did that too and it saved it in the pre-set list. However after exiting and reopening the software. Selecting Open D Tuning it presented me with a fingerboard with all 5 strings full length.
Just tried it again and Banjo G has two Capo Boxes when I switch to Open D Capo 5 Box disappears
Wow, way to go bud. Thanks a bunch, I’ll try it out. You’re the tops. Has anyone told you that yet today?
Hey Archie, I tried to duplicate your issue and wasn’t able to. I created the Banjo Open D tuning module and saved it to the list. I then closed out TablEdit and reopened it. I created a new file. Now, the Banjo Open D module I create wasn’t in the list of instruments during the creation part of the new tab file, but once I was in there and went to Score / Instruments / Tuning tab, it was available in the drop down menu. Once I selected it, both of the Capo entries were still available.
My first thought is maybe you’re running on an older version? Might want to check to see if you have V 2.78 a6c. I think that’s the latest.