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Tux Guitar
Tux Guitar
1.5.4

3.7

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Tux Guitar1.5.4

09 July 2020

Guitar tab and notation editor, viewer and player.

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  • Tux Guitar for Mac - review, screenshots
  • Tux Guitar for Mac - review, screenshots
  • Tux Guitar for Mac - review, screenshots
  • Tux Guitar for Mac - review, screenshots
  • Tux Guitar for Mac - review, screenshots
  • Tux Guitar for Mac - review, screenshots

Overview

Tux Guitar is a guitar-focused tab and music notation editor/viewer/player.

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 management
  • Imports and exports gp3,gp4 and gp5 files
  • Also imports other file formats, can export to Lilypond, and more.

What's new in Tux Guitar

Version 1.5.4:
  • Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.

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How would you rate Tux Guitar app?

5 Reviews of Tux Guitar

5
Steinarh
22 April 2020
Version: 1.5.2

Most helpful

Tux is a very good notation program - and it's free! The note writing itself can be a bit problematic for beginners, but eventually things are going well! The Tab function is excellent with all the necessary symbols. For my own part as a lute player, I wish such symbols were also available. The prints are good, especially with Lilipond. Considering all the possibilities the program has and that it is free, I give Tux guitar my best recommendations
(1)
5
Steinarh
22 April 2020
Version: 1.5.2
Tux is a very good notation program - and it's free! The note writing itself can be a bit problematic for beginners, but eventually things are going well! The Tab function is excellent with all the necessary symbols. For my own part as a lute player, I wish such symbols were also available. The prints are good, especially with Lilipond. Considering all the possibilities the program has and that it is free, I give Tux guitar my best recommendations
(1)
prestonlittle
12 February 2018
Version: 1.5
Do you know if it is possible to install that tool to Windows?
(0)
1
Martinbriley
27 May 2017
Version: 1.2
Requires Java runtime that doesn't come with the OS anymore. It's way past time to eliminate Java dependencies, folks.
(0)
5
alysiahilam
08 February 2017
Version: 1.2
This app is very useful for people playing guitar or willing to play. Tux Guitar can read different formats of tab files and this is super cool. You can find a lot of .gtp files in the Iternet and this app will open them. You can do it all for free. This app helps to improve your skills, be it acoustic or electric guitar. Highly recommend.
(0)
4
Acwolf
19 July 2010
Version: 1.2
I'm a guitar teacher and have been using this with my students. It isn't perfect, but it works. It is a little quirky in the way it enters notes. Biggest downside is that it is hard to get it to show all the music clearly on one screen. Otherwise, it is great. It has full tab capacity, with a guitar-neck visualization and input ability. It has a grid-style drum editor, a mixer, playback speed adjustment... It can do all varieties of tuplets and time signatures and alternate guitar tunings. I even got it set-up to do two 5 string tab-staffs tuned to each side of a Chapman Stick. It can open Tabledit, Guitar Pro, and Power Tab files. It can export to Lilypond format. What more can you ask for FREE?? All the other tab programs out there have quirks and issues too. The best for professional use is probably Finale or Sibelius, but you have to buy the full $600 versions if you want true flexibility in tab and in time-signatures for those programs. Otherwise, Harmony Assistant is good, and Guitar Pro or TablEdit are functional. But Tux Guitar is good, and free. For me that means I can get all my students using it without hesitation, despite its quirks.
(4)
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