A tour of TuxGuitar

We are going to take a tour of the TuxGuitar program.

TuxGuitar It is a program originally from Argentina, it is used to read, reproduce and edit scores of any instrument, obviously because removing the indefinite sound instruments all the others use the same notation.

This program allows us to put the score in solfege or cipher, the latter ideal for those of us who don't have the slightest idea of ​​reading a score (I know the scale, the notes and how they sound, I'm not that stupid haha).

This program is written under the Gtk + libraries

When we open the program the window that appears is this, in it the first thing that catches our attention is the neck, located at the bottom, in which the frets and strings that are sounding at all times are marked.

Unlike Guitar Pro, this neck has 22 frets instead of 24, for fans of Steve Vai, Michael Romeo, etc. it may make viewing a bit difficult but it is not that bad.

We also find a section to the right, in which we see squares of different colors, this section indicates the part of the song in which we are.

We find clues, we can put the ones we want, one for each sound instrument, not one for each instrument, for example, if in a song the synthesizer uses for example a Lead Square and then a Grand Piano we must create a track for the Lead Square and another for the Grand Piano, although later we are Jordan Rudess and we can change the sound in less than a thousandth of a second.

Each of these tracks has a sound as I already mentioned, this program has an infinite number of standard sounds. How do they sound? Like the ass, things as they are, they sound very synthetic but they do their function perfectly.

One thing we have to keep in mind is that when we create a track we have to indicate whether it is percussion or normal instrument. Someone will tell me:

Idiophones are percussion instruments, so what you say has no validity

The percussion tracks are for indefinite instruments, that is, drums, since idiophones are defined percussion instruments, that is, they have the notes of the scale.

This is the properties menu, in it we can modify the sound of each track, the number of strings of the instrument and its tuning, even if the track belongs to an instrument that does not need to be tuned or does not have strings, here we must control the tuning and the number of strings.

Unlike Guitar Pro this one does not have 12 string simulation.

Below the toolbar we can find the duration of each note, Quarter, White, Round, Eighth note, etc. since each time we write a note we must select its duration.

Here we find the buttons figure, music theory and both at the same time.

Then we have the play buttons.

To install it we only have to do a:

pacman -S tuxguitar


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  1.   Courage said

    When we open the program the window

    I have already noticed, to see if the sandy changes it

    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

      JUAS JUAS JUAS…. What if i refuse? JUAS JUAS JUAS !!!
      Typing error or not, you have done it, now bear the criticism HAHAHAHA ...

      Ok, I'll fix it for you hahahaha.

      1.    elav <° Linux said

        Fuck that is not worth .. Now I can not tell him: vantana is not in the RAE. LOL

      2.    Courage said

        Because I was already in bed when you made the comments, because if you don't already know where I would have sent you

    2.    KZKG ^ Gaara <"Linux said

      Ready fixed 🙂
      Oh… and a question, does TuxGuitar only work or is it available for Arch?
      Excuse my ignorance, but I only see the command to install in Arch…. LOL!!!

      Come on man, be good and put the apt and others HAHA.

      1.    elav <° Linux said

        Nope, it's not only in Arch .. It's in Debian, Ubuntu ... etc

  2.   kik1n said

    I really like Guitar Pro better but hey.
    Guitar Pro does not have a Penguin

  3.   Thirteen said

    I never used GuitarPro, but a few years ago I came across Tuxguitar, looking for an alternative to a program that I used in win called TablEdit and since then I have used Tuxguitar.

    Greetings.

  4.   Sergio Andres Nustes said

    Gtk + libraries?
    Could you confirm the information I understand that it uses Java (I'm not sure if Swing or AWT) and well at some point I downloaded the source code and it has Java classes, and if I install it from repositories in Ubuntu, download the OpenJDK, I leave you the concern, although I'm not entirely sure ... it would be good to confirm.