![]() ![]() Once you have familiarized yourself with it, everything will be a piece-of-cake. If you're a beginner user of this app, you should make use of its help section to quickly grasp its whole operation. In spite of its quite confusing first impression, TuxGuitar truly deserves a chance from all music composers especially for its nicely-designed interface that features many interesting tools, which can greatly help improve your music composition. Its built-in player can go through the entire sheet and provide an accurate rendition. While you are working on your current composition you can listen to it and modify the areas you want to improve. Essentially, all the markings in a regular musical sheet are also accessible in this app. Features: Tablature editor Score Viewer Multitrack display Autoscroll while playing Note duration management Various effects (bend, slide, vibrato, hammer-on/pull-off) Support for triplets (5,6,7,9,10,11,12) Repeat open and close Time signature management Tempo. If you wish to increase or decrease the tone of a certain note, you can possibly do it here. Tux Guitar is a guitar-focused tab and music notation editor/viewer/player. You'll also be able to select the note value you prefer either whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, thirty-second, or sixty-fourth.Īt the same time, it allows you to insert a time signature, set the music tempo, and choose a clef. Your attention will surely focus on your on-going composition as it displays an empty music sheet that you must fill in with notes and rhythms. However, its entire operation will still be a challenge, especially for beginners. How do you use TuxGuitar?Īs stated, this music companion app provides a clean interface with a layout that is intuitive-designed. On top of that, it provides import and export support for GP3, GP4, and GP5 file formats. What's more, it also enables you to play the songs you compose, using one of the many instruments included in it. Test around with different values to find the best for you.Besides composing on the tablature, you can also use a virtual guitar fretboard or piano keyboard to make composition even easier. This should enable the sound, try playing the default score and verify if it is working correctly!Īfter that, since I’m using a 4k monitor and the scaling does not work for Tuxguitar, I digged around to find a way to increase the size of the score and tablature, and I found this post.īased on that, I changed the configuration file in ~/.tuxguitar-1.2/config.properties and added these two lines: tab.line-spacing=20 I applied the changes and went back to the menu Tools > Settings and then selected Sound and made sure the MIDI Sequencer was set on Tuxguitar Sequencer and the MIDI Port was set to TG Fluidsynth. ![]() In the Audio tab, I selected pulseaudio as the audio driver. In my system it was in /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 In the Soundfonts tab, press Add and browse to your sound font. Start Tuxguitar and open the menu Tools > Plugins, find Fluidsynth output plugin, select it and press Configure. This will install Tuxguitar and Fluidsynth (a MIDI software synthesizer) along with some sound fonts. Sudo apt install tuxguitar tuxguitar-fluidsynth I recently installed and configured Tuxguitar to open some Guitar Pro files and since it was a bit complicated to configure (I wasn’t getting any sound out of it!), I wanted to write down some instructions.įirst thing first, install the package, on my Debian testing system it was: sudo apt update ![]()
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