TuxGuitar is a

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editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of

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gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function as basic

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editors. TuxGuitar's mascot and namesake is Tux, the penguin mascot of many games and programs originally designed for

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. The program is written in the

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and is released under the LGPL-2.1-only license. Originally developed o
SourceForge
development moved t
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: TuxGuitar also supports custom skins. The default skin for version 1.0 is Lavender.

Supported effects

Supported file formats

Reception

, TuxGuitar had 4/5 stars in the CNET user ratings. During the same time, TuxGuitar had 3.4/5 stars in the

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user ratings. the program has 4.7/5 stars on

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. 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.

References

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Skins

Supported effects

Supported file formats

Reception

See also

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