Nashville tuning or sometimes referred by “high-strung” tuning is actually performed by changing out four of the regular strings E, A, D,G. In MIDI terms, E2 (40) A2 (45) and D3 (50) G3 (55) are taken out, and replaced with strings E3 (52) A3 (57) and D4 (62) G4 (67). […]
Virtual Guitar Documentation
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vguitar -A128:0 -t -c -Z”M60,64,62,55,60,62″ –input=”bigben.trax” bigben.trax: 1|-----------0------------------------------------------------ 2|---------0-------------------------------------------------- 3|-------0---------------0-0---------------------------------- 4|-----0---------------0-----0-------------------------------- 5|---0---------0---0-----------0------------------------------ 6|-0-------------0---0-----------0---------------------------- -A128:0 specifies the port that synth is running on. -Z specifies MIDI tuning –input specifies the file input in classicTrax format
In Tablature mode, I input frets onto the six strings and the neck is divided by time. frets --> strings,time In Box mode, which is more familiar, actually, I input time onto the six strings and the neck is divided by frets. time --> strings,frets In Tablature mode, I set […]
00 TAB==================================== E 3 5 7 8 10 12 14 15 B - - - - - - - - G - - - - - - - - D - - - - - - - - A - - - - - - - - E 3 5 […]
I wrote vguitar as a ncurses application. So it has a terminal user interface. Running it inside emacs with M-x terminal allows one to copy/cut/print the visible notes using c-j and c-k modes. 00 ========================= O - - 0 - - - - - - - - - - X […]
Press the HOME key to bring up the strum mode, press the END key to bring up the tablature mode. This allows one to hot swap guitar instrumental modes. In strum mode, Press PAGE-UP and PAGE-DOWN to switch between difference strum sequences.
Run qsynth. See what address and port it is using with aconnect -l. On my ubuntu, it is 129 and 0. vguitar needs to connect to these with -A 129 and -P 0. Run vguitar in either strum (-S) or tablature (-t ) modes. Play music with the space key […]
Editing a chord in strum mode, is fairly easy with the arrow keys to move between strings and frets, and ‘k’ to mark a fret. You can remember your edited chord, with the ‘R’ key and associate it with a key (avail. version 0.8 apt release 1.0). Or you can […]