Guitar Tab Viewer

[pungipungi]

I've started to work on an viewer for guitar tabs stored in ASCII format. Reason for this is:
- I want to take my music archive with me
- I want to have also a real time viwer
- I don't want to spend to much time in generation of these tabs
- I want to reuse my GuitarPro archive
-- GuitarPro-5, tablEdit and Powertab are able to export ascii tabs
-- the export of GuitarPro-5 is a very good base to reach a lot of enhancemenst asked for below
-- there are a lot of ascii tabs available in the internet

 

Andreas

[ArchiMark]

Sounds great, pungipungi!

 

Mark
Sometimes Guitar Player...

[Z_Attorney]

Ditto!

[pungipungi]

There's a new version (520) on the feed:
http://members.cheese.at/woody/zaurus/c1000-feed/

It contains:
- a metronom indicating the counts and tact switches of the current line
-- there are some questions on http://members.cheese.at/woody/zaurus/. Some answers could help me to improve the realtime viewer ...
- a version for the destop. So it should be more easy to try ...
- my current test song archive is als stored in the feed
- a Guitar-Pro based script for generating the realtime viewer data based on the exported guitar pro ascii tabs

andreas

[pungipungi]

For reaching the overall goal to also enhance the graphic output I've decided to switch to the fltk widgetset, which I'm much more familiar with ...

Here's an preview of the current application which already provides the full functionality of the previous gtk version.

[img]http://members.cheese.at/woody/zaurus/i386/fltk-tabviewer-screen.png\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

There are already some major enhancements included:
- only tab (ascii tabulatures) are necessary. No need for special files describing the scrolling
-- song structure is parsed directly from the ascii tab
-- currently this is only tested for guitar-pro 5 ouput
- editing of tabulature is possible
-- includes adding infos which are later on parsed (like scrolling speed)
-- and adding type info which is shown in the pieces browser with differnt icons (currently jazz, classic)
- metronom is much more enhanced
-- changing colors (red, green) at the begin and end of a tact
-- overall metronom size is equal to tact size
-- metronom is synchron with tact size (even with verioous different lebgths of tact in one line)
-- repeats are supported

i386 test version


arm test version

[miskinis]

Hi,

This looks pretty useful, I will be certainly be checking this out within the next few days!

Do you plan on enhancing it to actually play the tabs?  And perhaps offer
a few types of guitar (or any instrument) samples, possibly a bass-line,
some limited percussion, etc?  Thanks, John

[pungipungi]

Do you plan on enhancing it to actually play the tabs?  And perhaps offer
a few types of guitar (or any instrument) samples, possibly a bass-line,
some limited percussion, etc?  Thanks, John
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Sorry, no.

The main purpose is to take my guitar notes with me and to view them in a way that I can play them.
That's finished now and the next steps are beautifying the output.
Since guitar-pro can also export it to midi/wave it's maybe worth thinking to start a player if the music is also available.

For really playing it, it has to be parsed completly so that an music output is possible ...

Andreas

[img]http://members.cheese.at/woody/zaurus/i386/fltk-tabviewer-beautify-2.png\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /]

[mullin]

1. can it display only the chords and words or not
2. which programming language are you using, especially UI controls? and what's the running environment, e.g. Sharp rom? OZ? padaxrom?
3. indeed, i'm interested to write something similar and search for some ideas, e.g using java, QT and so on.

cheers.
mulli

[pungipungi]

1. can it display only the chords and words or not
2. which programming language are you using, especially UI controls? and what's the running environment, e.g. Sharp rom? OZ? padaxrom?
3. indeed, i'm interested to write something similar and search for some ideas, e.g using java, QT
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ad 1. It display the complete tab file. If it finds some tabulature lines in it, it beautifies the output.
ad 2.a c++, fltk
ad 2.b OZ and pdaXrom (fltk is based on X11). There's also an i386 version.
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I've placed the new i386 version on
http://members.cheese.at/woody/zaurus/i386/