2112design was founded in Palo Alto, California in 2003 by me, Steve Haigh. I am a professional software developer and amateur drummer. I am English and have worked in Europe and the US for many years developing software for companies large and small.
A few years ago, I was trying to learn a Dream Theater song from a tab I downloaded from the web. If you know Dream Theater, you will know that is a non-trivial task. I manually created a midi file using Cakewalk so I could hear the drum part, but found the interface unfriendly to drummers and the whole process very difficult and frustrating. So I started to think, "Maybe I will write some software to convert tabs to midi and standard sheet music notation". And that, my friends, is how TabTrax was born. After I started using TabTrax myself it occurred to me that many other drummers would benefit from TabTrax, so I started 2112design. Why 2112design? "2112" is the name of an album by Rush, the greatest band of all time, IMHO.
In 2004 I said goodbye to the Silicon Valley rat race and moved to paradise; a small island in the south of Thailand, where I live with beautiful girlfriend, continue to develop new features for TabTrax, play my drums in local bars and generally have a great life
As a 2112design customer, you can be sure you will get speedy technical support directly from me, the developer of TabTrax, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
And for you techies our there, TabTrax is written in C++ using MSVC 6.0. The GUI is MFC based. I use a 2GHz Pentium 4 Fujitsu laptop running windows XP-pro with a Roland XV2020 midi synth. My drum kit is a Roland V-drums, V-stage kit with upgraded cymbals and hi-hat. a TD-8 brain and Yamaha double pedal.
I wish to thank the following people for their help, support ideas and contributions to TabTrax:
Clifford Tavares and Blake Brown - programming help.
Lewis Dunham - my first paying customer.
Patrick Demirdjian (FR), Tim Wedemann (DE), Tom
van Zummeren(NL), Quim Blanch(ES), Marco Caruso
(IT), Par (SW), Mingze
Yang(CN), Seppo Immonen (FI) - language translations.
Pete Talbot, Patrick Demirdjian, Tim Wedemann- ideas, feedback and debugging.
Jeremy Ferwerda - mxtabs.net
All my customers who have sent me emails expressing their undying love for TabTrax and tab writers who have mentioned TabTrax in their tabs.
Thanks, Steve