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

[Noel Nunkovich]

I'm not sure about Guitar Pro, but Tux Guitar is soundfont-based, which
means that the quality of the sounds it generates is directly related to the
soundfont bank that's loaded.  There are quite a few quality soundfont banks
that can be downloaded for free and even more that can be purchased.  I
haven't used mine in a while but I don't remember it sounding that bad.  I
know I downloaded some big, high-res soundfonts from somewhere though.  I'll
fire my Ubuntu Studio box up tomorrow and look to see which one I'm using if
you wish.

Noel

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>wrote:

> On Sunday 02 August 2009 19:13:03 Noel Nunkovich wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Exactly what you described above. My son tabs his music, then plays it back
> to
> make sure he tabbed it right and see how it sounds.
>
> His buddy has a Windows program -- I think it is Guitar Pro, that sounds
> more
> like a real guitar and less like a 1982 video game.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
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