Linux Guitar Pro Alternative

Today I finally configured my Ubuntu for guitar tabs playing!

Here is the recipe:
- install “tuxguitar” package
- install “timidity” package

Maybe your sound card supports MIDI files better than mine, so you might go with hardware support for playing MIDI files. However, software sequencers do provide better sound and sometimes they are the only choice, as in my case.

For some reason though, timidity daemon isn’t started with boot up, so I had to start it manually. Before launching tuxguitar, launch following command from terminal:

timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os -EFreverb=0

Then run tuxguitar and select Timidity port from the settings as shown in the second picture.

Good luck and enjoy your guitar

TuxGutar

Configuring TuxGuitar to use Timidity synthesizer

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