I am still on a hunt to find useful programs to help guide me to learning how to play the guitar. Today I started going through open-source software for Guitars on SourceForge. I haven’t tried them all out, but these are the ones that interested me.
- Absolute Guitar Trainer: Absolute Guitar Trainer (agtrainer) is the first interactive electric guitar trainer capable of recognizing the sound from the user’s music instrument (basically an electric guitar) and use it to estimate the user’s advancement.
- CP Guitar Effect Proccessor: CP-GFX is simply a Cross Platform Guitar Effect Processor. The aim of the project is to create an extensible and easy to use program which is easy to port to different platforms an operating systems.
- GNUitarra/Guitar helper: GNUitarra is a light-fast all-in-one helper for the guitar player. Has more than +4000 scale types, +60 chord types, +60 string instruments (i.e bass). Can automake solos, learning excersises, etc. Works even in a 386!
- DGuitar: a Guitar Pro viewer, player: DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) viewer and player that works under Linux, MacOs, Solaris, BSD, Windows, or any other operating system with Java Runtime 1.4.X.
- GNUitar: GNUitar is guitar effects software that allows you to use your PC as guitar processor. It includes the following effects: wah-wah, sustain, distortion, reverberator, echo, delay, tremolo, vibrato, and chorus/flanger.
- Guitar Scale Assistant: Guitar Scale Assistant is a java based guitar application. This application allows guitarists to display, create, hear, and search for scales based on chords, progressions, note sequences, or names. A useful tool for guitarists at all levels.
Tags: Electric Guitar, Guitar, Guitar Lessons, Guitar Software, Guitar Training, Guitarware, Learning Guitar, Open-Source, Software