TuxGuitar
Introduction '''TuxGuitar''' is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function as basic MIDI editors.TuxGuitar's mascot and namesake is Tux, the penguin mascot of many games and programs originally designed for Linux.The program is written in the Java programming language and is released under the LGPL-2.1-only license.Originally developed on  SourceForge, development moved to  GitHub on 30 March 2023 after the TuxGuitar websites had disappeared and the original author stopped responding. The 1.6.0 release was the first release done by the development team on GitHub.
Skins TuxGuitar offers a set of three default skins that its users can choose from. These are: Image  Name  Author  First appeared in  Description alt=a grey and greyish blue layout for TuxGuitar Lavender  Sascha  v0.1  Simple, elegant theme with lavender color. Blue serious  Licnep  v0.1  A more serious theme, where blue dominates. alt=A red-brown layout for TuxGuitar that is very rural in appearance due to the choice of colors ranging from red to shades of blue and green. Ersplus  Ersplus  v0.9  Default tuxguitar theme.TuxGuitar also supports custom skins. The default skin for version 1.0 is Lavender.
Supported effects  Note effects Dead notes   Accentuated notes   Harmonics   Dynamics   Grace notes   Tremolo picking   Slurs   Hammer-ons and pull-offs   Slides   Track effects Multiple Tracks   Multiple Voices   Repeats   Alter. Endings   Custom Number of Tunings for a Track's strings   Track Names   Lyrics   Text   Chords    Symbols
Supported file formats  File format  Importing Exporting TuxGuitar (.tg)     Guitar Pro (.gtp)     Guitar Pro 3 (.gp3)     Guitar Pro 4 (.gp4)     Guitar Pro 5 (.gp5)     Guitar Pro 6 (.gpx)     Guitar Pro 7 (.gp)     Power Tab (.ptb)     TablEdit (.tef)     GNU LilyPond (.ly)     MIDI (.mid)     ASCII tab (.txt)
Reception , TuxGuitar had 4/5 stars in the CNET user ratings. During the same time, TuxGuitar had 3.4/5 stars in the Softpedia user ratings. the program has 4.7/5 stars on SourceForge. Reviewers at ''Software Informer'' gave version 1.0 of TuxGuitar 5/5 stars, praising the "very easy to use interface" and "very advanced functions" of the program.
See also * List of music software
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