Projects

Performous

Performous is an open-source karaoke, band and dancing game where one or more players perform a song and the game scores their performances. Performous supports songs in UltraStar, Frets on Fire and StepMania formats. Microphones and instruments from SingStar, Guitar Hero and Rock Band as well as some dance pads are autodetected.

Frets on Fire

Frets on Fire is an excellent opensource clone of Guitar Hero for Windows, Linux, and OSX. It can import songs from a Guitar Hero I or II disc, can play user-created songs, or lets you to create your own songs with its song editor. For hardcore players, your results are automatically posted to the ... [More] World Charts on the website, so that you can see how awesome you are. (Written in Python using bindings to many fast C libraries.) [Less]

TuxGuitar

TuxGuitar is a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT, It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab and TablEdit files.

FoFiX

Started as a mod to Frets On Fire, FoFiX is recognized now as a fork to the original boasting high amounts of customizability, improved stability, and plenty of new features. You can jam to songs with actual controllers from the Guitar Hero or Rockband games, or you can just use your keyboard. ... [More] Plenty of charts can be found on the internet that are compatible with FoF, but only FoFiX can play the drums and vocal sections (if present). Our latest stable version is 3.121. Version 4.0 is in development and already has tons of improvements including improved performance and the ability to make your own setlists and rockmeters. [Less]

Rakarrack

Rakarrack is a guitar effects processor for GNU/Linux simple and easy to use but it contains features that make it unique in this field of applications. It contains 10 effects: Linear Equalizer, Parametric Equalizer, Compressor, Distorsion, Overdrive, Echo, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger and Reverb. It ... [More] integrates a tuner and a MIDI converter (experimental). It can also be handled by an external MIDI controller. The settings designed by the user can be stored in presets and these presets can be used to create banks of effects. [Less]

KGuitar

KGuitar is basically a guitar tabulature editor for K Desktop Environment. It's much more than just a tab editor. It's features are: Powerful and convenient tabulature editing, including many effects and classical note score editing for classic instrument players; Full and very ... [More] customizable MIDI to tabulature import and export; Support of extra data formats, such as ASCII tabulatures, MusicXML or popular programs' format, such as Guitar Pro's or TablEdit; Chord fingering construction tools - chord finder and chord analyzer; Many additional facilities to ease tabbing work, including rhythm and lead construction tools; Highly customizable to suit a lot of possible instruments (not only 6-string guitars, and even not only guitars), including drum tracks, lyrics and other MIDI events. [Less]

Chordii

Creates elegant, printable stafless lead sheets for musicians needing only chords and lyrics.

Aria Maestosa

Aria Maestosa is a midi tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views.

guitarix

guitarix is a simple mono Linux Rock Guitar Amplifier for jack (Jack Audio Connection Kit) with one input and two outputs.

ptabtools

PowerTab Tools contains a library for accessing PowerTab Tablature files (*.ptb) and utilities for converting .ptb files to ASCII and GNU LilyPond files.