Tables
File formats
What Stab opens and what it writes, platform by platform.
Opens
| Format | Mac | Windows | Web |
|---|---|---|---|
Stab songs .stab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Guitar Pro 3 to 8 .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, .gpx, .gp | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MIDI .mid, .midi, .smf | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MusicXML (partwise) .musicxml, .mxl, .xml | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Text tab .txt, .tab | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PDF .pdf | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pictures of music .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .heic, .heif, .tif, .tiff, .webp, .bmp | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
iReal Pro links .html (an irealb:// link) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio and video recordings | ✓ | ✓ | — |
Writes
| Export | Mac | Windows | Web |
|---|---|---|---|
| Export Audio… Audio, the mix | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Export Audio, One File per Track… Audio, a file per track | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Export MIDI… MIDI, .mid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export MIDI, One Channel per String… MIDI, a channel per string | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export Guitar Pro 5… Guitar Pro 5, .gp5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export Guitar Pro (.gp)… Guitar Pro 7 and 8, .gp | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export MusicXML… MusicXML, .musicxml | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export Score as PDF… PDF, the Score | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export Presentations as PDFs… PDF, a file per presentation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PowerTab (.ptb) and TablEdit (.tef) files don’t open in Stab: convert them to Guitar Pro 5 with TuxGuitar, then import them. See PowerTab and TablEdit files.