Top 15 TuxGuitar Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Open source guitar tab viewer and editor, alternative to Guitar Pro. It is capable of opening files from Guitar Pro 3-5, MIDI-files and also files from Power tab and TablEdit. Supports export to midi, MusicXML, Lilypond scores.
Tuxguitar can use custom soundbanks (sf2) for more realistic sound through gervill or fluidsynth plugin.

1. TEFpad

TEFpad TEFpad LE is a editor of TablEdit files (.tef format) designed for the iPad.Just like TEFview for iOS, our free file viewer, TEFpad opens, displays and plays all .tef files and imports many types of music files (ASCII tablatures, ABC files, MusicXML, MIDI, Guitar Pro, PowerTab ...).In addition to this,......

2. TablEdit

TablEdit TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.Additionally, TablEdit, while designed for guitarists, by guitarists, is not limited to guitar like other Tablature programs. Through ongoing consultation with experts on......

3. Canary.fm

Canary.fm Canary.fm is a beautiful and simple guitar tab player that works in any web browser, iPhone, or iPad. It effortlessly keeps tabs synced across your devices, and has essential features like tempo control and track muting.......

4. FourChords Guitar Karaoke

FourChords Guitar Karaoke Even if you've never played the guitar before, Four Chords makes it fun (and easy) to learn your favorite songs and the latest hits. Download Four Chords now to get access to hundreds of songs you can actually play. It's like having a personal guitar teacher whenever you need one.......

5. Power Tab Editor

Power Tab Editor Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.The Power Tab Editor is able to import MIDI tracks, and can export to......

6. KGuitar

KGuitar Kguitar is a guitar tablature editor for Linux, featuring: * Powerful and convenient tablature editing, including many effects and classical note score editing for classic instrument players; * Full and very customizable MIDI to tablature import and export; * Support of extra data formats, such as ASCII tablatures, MusicXML or......

7. AutoDrum

AutoDrum AutoDrum is free, open source software for automatic drum performance, helpful for practice or speeding up composition.FEATURES 13 preset rhythm patterns can be used, and you can add your original rhythm pattern which is created by your MIDI sequencer. The tempo can be changed at any time while playing. Also,......

8. TabToolkit

TabToolkit TabToolkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine that enables you to listen to and control the audio for all instrument tracks individually. TabToolkit makes learning how to play your favorite songs on......

9. Guitar Tab Player

Guitar Tab Player Guitar Tab Player is a simple and very fast tablature reader and player with HD quality. It allows you to watch and play your tabs and music notation, simply and quickly. It supports ANY guitar pro files (including Guitar Pro 6). Just type what you want to play and go......

10. Live-Styler

Live-Styler The Live-Styler is a fully equipped, software based computer organ. With it you can optionally operate 3 top manuals, 2 middle manuals, 2 low manuals and 1 bass pedal.The Live-Styler includes a complete automatic accompaniment with single finger, full finger and bass mode.The Live-Styler can load and play all Yamaha......

11. Tabular

Tabular Tabular is a brand new tablature editor that lets you read and write music for guitar, bass, drums and much more. It's the best way to learn new songs, write your own songs and run through practice exercises for nearly any kind of stringed instrument or drum kit.Practice tools allow......

12. iShred

iShred iShred sends the highest quality guitar sounds through a bank of crazily configurable stomp box effects, rendering the result into screaming, distorted, wailing, looping, feedback-fueled audible gold! Quit struggling to finger invisible strings or suffer through lousy samples on a wannabe guitar app. Pick up iShred and start making the......

13. Guitar (GuitarStudio)

Guitar (GuitarStudio) Guitar for iPhone and iPod Touch, with its innovative user interface, makes playing your favorite songs fun and easy.......

14. Retrostica Virtual Synthesizer

Retrostica Virtual Synthesizer Retrostica PX1 has an intuitive, one-click interface.Functions can be started / stopped with onesingle mouse click. There is no need to setup dozens ofparameters, or bother with complicated configurations.Everything works immediately just out of the box. Every sound in Retrostica is CD quality. Sounds arenot played slower or faster to......

15. oTuner

oTuner oTuner is a Free, Open Source Chromatic Tuner for Windows and Windows Mobile (or Pocket PC). Can be used as a guitar tuner, bass guitar tuner, or a tuner for whatever musical instrument takes your fancy!......