[TriLUG] How to get realistic sounding guitar out of TuxGuitar

[Noel Nunkovich]

Tux Guitar is actually pretty nice.  I've used it fairly extensively and it
sounds OK, but the truth is you'll never get really good guitar sounds via
MIDI.  Also, Tux Guitar is really designed for transcribing and playing back
guitar Tabulature files.  The good news is that you don't need hardware
MIDI, it can take data from Tux Guitar tab files or Guitar Pro 3/4/5 files
and play those back.  Basically, Tux Guitar is an open source version of
Guitar Pro and it's designed to fill the same niche.

What exactly are you trying to do?

Noel Nunkovich

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Michael Peters <mpeters at plusthree.com>wrote:

> Steve Litt wrote:
>
>  So I need to find out how to get real guitar sounding notes coming out of
>> my computer. Can it be done if I don't have a hardware midi? How do I get
>> the right sounds out of guitar tracks?
>>
>
> I haven't used TuxGuitar but I'm guessing that it does have a midi output
> of some kind. If you can have it output midi, or maybe save the midi file
> for another application you might look at combining that with either a
> software or hardware synth. That also means you aren't just limited to
> guitar.
>
> For linux ideas, I'd ask on the Fedora Music mailing list which is all
> about audio software on linux (
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list).
>
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