Edited sentence: Due the lack of support, and the fact the the Powertab Editor website was not updated for years, it was a common conjecture among software users on the website forums that Brad Larson, the author, had in fact died; this would be a conjecture that went unchallenged for a number of years.Powertab Editor gained notoriety amongst the guitar playing community for being an incredibly functional, useful, & popular software, which for some unknown reason was released with a complete lack of support or development from the software author