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Tux Guitar



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.

About TuxGuitar

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TuxGuitar 1.5.4 Beta is a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT. It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system/platform without restrictions. TuxGuitar is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.

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TuxGuitar for Mac Multitrack tablature editor and player TuxGuitar is a full-featured music composition tool that can be really helpful to musicians, whether they use their computer to produce music or not. TuxGuitar is a free, open source multitrack tablature editor. With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following 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).

Is TuxGuitar safe to download?

We tested the file tuxguitar-1.5.3-windows-x86-installer.exe with 25 antivirus programs and it turned out 100% clean. It's good practice to test any downloads from the Internet with trustworthy antivirus software.

Does TuxGuitar work on my version of Windows?

Older versions of Windows often have trouble running modern software and thus TuxGuitar may run into errors if you're running something like Windows XP. Conversely, much older software that hasn't been updated in years may run into errors while running on newer operating systems like Windows 10. You can always try running older programs in compatibility mode.

Officially supported operating systems include 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.

What versions of TuxGuitar are available?

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The current version of TuxGuitar is 1.5.4 Beta and is the latest version since we last checked. This is the full offline installer setup file for PC. This site has hosted other versions of it in the past such as 1.5.3 Beta and 1.5.2 Beta. At the moment, only the latest version is available.

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