Linux guitarism - why not?

    One good friend of mine once said: - Linux is easier to learn to play the guitar. - Because they are used to the fact that at first they suffer for a long time, but then they enjoy the result.

    He is certainly right. And below I want to consider some software designed to help a Linux guitar player on his hard, but incredibly interesting way.

    Tuxguitar


    Screenshot TuxGuitar

    TuxGuitar allows you to record scores and edit tabs. Supports Guitar Pro formats - .gp3, .gp4, .gp5 - and Power Tab Editor - .ptb. There is also a proprietary .tg format, although the default option is to save files in .gp4 format. You can also work with MIDI.

    On the Web you can find tabs in one of the supported formats for almost every well-known composition. For example, I have a catalog with tabs for all the songs of Metallica - I gradually get acquainted.

    On some systems, TuxGuitar may not play sound and generate a “Unavailable Soundbank Error”. The solution to this problem is described here .

    gtkguitune


    Gtkguitune screenshot

    Guitar tuner. Also known as KGuitune and QtGuitune, these are simply versions using the QT graphics library instead of GTK. The note being played is displayed below. If someone does not remember, in a standard tuning, notes for open strings look like this: e lectric b rain g oes d own a ny e rror (from the first to the sixth). On my guitar, by the way, the tuner shows the notes a little more accurately if you switch to one of the singles (and not to the humbucker). And on the acoustic guitar, I noticed a hint with the use of a slight change in the relative position of the guitar and the microphone when tuning the last two strings. So, I hope that the system is being maintained and we can move on to the latest program for today.

    Exef


    ExEf Screenshot

    And here is the software lotion for Linux. A kind of "soft distortion". For Linux, in principle, there are several programs of this kind, but this one differs in that it is very ahead of all the others.

    Firstly, the quality of the sound produced is very high - there is reverb and other effects, so pleasant when playing with an overloaded sound. Of course, to record this quality is not enough and cannot be enough - for a "real" sound you still need a piece of iron, whether it be a combo or, say, a lamp pedal. But here, by the way, there is another advantage of Extreme Effect'a: you can play and hear overloaded sound and at the same time record clean. In practice, this makes it possible to record the necessary parts and, subsequently, "reload" them on iron equipment. You can also record overloaded sound.

    Another, most important advantage of this program is the lack of delay. That is, we take the pick, we extract the sound and immediately hear it overloaded. It might even be interesting for someone to delve into the source code and look at the implementation of this "real-time mechanism." By the way, a rare case when the program is strongly recommended to be run under superuser, that is, root'om - this allows you to set the process a high enough priority to save the user a lot of nerves.

    In fact, we get, probably, the perfect solution in a situation where there is only a guitar and a computer. After all, not everyone who buys a guitar immediately buys a lotion (because it is much better to buy a good guitar and after a while a good combo than an average guitar and immediately an average combo), and in addition, you can imagine a situation when a person takes a laptop and a guitar somewhere, and the combo is no longer crawling anywhere - and then it is precisely such programs that save.

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