Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nick Strauss <nicks@nick-strauss.com>
* Package name : vguitar
Version : 2.6
Upstream Author : Nick Strauss <nicks@nick-strauss.com>
* URL : http://www.nick-strauss.com/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++
Description : Play Guitar in any term w MIDI synthesizer
Vguitar is a MIDI instrument Guitar and is a tablature editor and can easily read
existing ASCII tablature with some minor editing. Connect via ALSA to a synthesizer.
Vguitar supports a six string guitar with standard and alternative tunings including
relative, MIDI and Drop D tunings, supports box and strum modes.
VGuitar is extremely lightweight dependent only on libasound and ncurses. It is written in C++
and is easy to read and to build.
* Providing similar functionality, how does it compare?
only Vguitar is a unix tool rather than a monolithic windows application with menus.
only Vguitar is term window based.
only Vguitar supports alternate tunings, box and strum modes.
only Vguitar is written in C++ and is only dependent on libasound and ncurses.
** songwrite
fairly easy to build python dependent on Lilypond and Tcl/Tk.
easy learning curve
** eTktab which is a guitar tablature editor written in Tcl/Tk,
simple
fairly easy to build (only depends on TCL/TK) source code bulky, hard to read.
no sound.
** Tuxguitar http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/
build difficulty (dependent on Java (JVM) which is licensed, ANT, SWT, and ITEXT).
steep learning curve feature rich, complicated, not term based.
has note effects.
** guitarexerciser #667855 ?
* I am looking for co-maintainers and a sponsor.
* I am looking for suggestions for version and change control.