TuxGuitar is a free and open-source tablature editor, which includes features such as tablature editing, score editing, and import and export of Guitar Pro gp3, gp4, and gp5 files. In addition, TuxGuitar's tablature and staff interfaces function as basic MIDI editors.

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

The program is written in the Java programming language and is released under the LGPL-2.1-only license.

Originally developed on SourceForge, development moved to 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 on GitHub.

Skins TuxGuitar offers a set of three default skins that its users can choose from. These are: Image Name Author First appeared in Description Lavender Sascha v0.1 Simple, elegant theme with lavender color. Blue serious Licnep v0.1 A more serious theme, where blue dominates. Ersplus Ersplus v0.9 Default TuxGuitar theme.

TuxGuitar also supports custom skins. The default skin for version 1.0 is Lavender.

Supported effects Note effects Dead notes Accentuated notes Harmonics Dynamics Grace notes Tremolo picking Slurs Hammer-ons and pull-offs Slides Track effects Multiple Tracks Multiple Voices Repeats Alter. Endings Custom Number of Tunings for a Track's strings Track Names Lyrics Text Chords Symbols

Supported file formats File format Importing Exporting TuxGuitar (.tg) Guitar Pro (.gtp) Guitar Pro 3 (.gp3) Guitar Pro 4 (.gp4) Guitar Pro 5 (.gp5) Guitar Pro 6 (.gpx) Guitar Pro 7 (.gp) Power Tab (.ptb) TablEdit (.tef) GNU LilyPond (.ly) MIDI (.mid) ASCII tab (.txt)

Reception , TuxGuitar had 4/5 stars in the CNET user ratings. During the same time, TuxGuitar had 3.4/5 stars in the Softpedia user ratings. the program has 4.7/5 stars on SourceForge. 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.

See also List of music software

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