Free awesome guitar software for linux

Ultimate Guitar is an amaroK script which search guitar tabs in ultimate-guitar.com. It shows the results within a browser (default: Konqueror).

GNUitar is a real-time guitar processor.
This is a program for real-time sound effect processing. You can use it to add some distortion to your guitar, or some reverb to your voice.
Main features:
- 2 kinds of distortion (one is Ibanez TubeScreamer 9 simulation)
- sustain
- various flavors of reverb, echo & delay
- chorus/flanger
- equalizer
- noise reduction
- wah-wah
- phasor
- tremolo
- vibrato

GuitarTeX is a tool for guitarists who want to print good looking and easy to play song sheets or song books from their chord or chordpro files. It uses the well known chord format with several extensions. The program was developed on a Linux system, but it should run on any other Unix system which has a Perl/TK environment.
It is based upon an idea of Martin Leclerc and Mario Dorion from Canada and their program Chord (Version 3.5 from 1993). To use GuitarTeX, you need to have knowledge of the Chord program (explained later). Though the LaTeX text processing system is used by GuitarTeX, you dont have to know very much about it. GuitarTeX produces Postscript or PDF output automatically (if you want). The Chord directives supplied by GuitarTeX are described in Chapter 5.
Main features:
- Graphical user interface with integrated editor and syntax highlighting
- Prints good looking song sheets including guitar chords without using monospace fonts
- Output formats: LaTeX, Postscript and PDF
- Compatible with ChordPro format, import function for ascii format
- Support for music typesetting with the LaTeX packages MusixTeX, MusixLyr and TabDefs
- Flexible page layout (paper size, margins...)
- User defined colors for different parts of a song (e.g. verse, chorus)
- Optional printing of chord symbols at the end of a song
- Transpose up or down your song by mouse clicks
- Creates single song sheets or complete song books with a title page, table of
- contents, headlines with page numbering, chord table and index
- Supports ASCII tablature and the built in tablature directives for guitar and bass tabs
- Support for multiple languages (if you dont find your langauage, you can help the
- author to add it)
- Runs on Linux operating system (it should run on any Unix system that is supported by Perl/TK and LaTeX, but it is not tested)
- Setup your song book project from single song files with the include directive
- LaTeX commands may be used in Chordpro files (for the professionals)
Enhancements:
- Support to create song books
- Several Bugfixes

Guitar Tuner project is a simple Gtk+ guitar tuner.

QMetronome is a skinnable metronome for Qt licenced under the GPL.
The qualitiy of the prepackaged skins are questionable but it is easy to make your own. I made this metronome when I was learning the rythms of Flamenco on the guitar.
Therefore, it has up to twelve beats per "bar" and clicks with accents.
Main features:
- Three click sounds: one, accent and ordinary. Configurable.
- Four to twelve beats per round.
- Timing precision only limited by your soundcard and drivers.
Version restrictions:
- All three click sounds must be in the same format (bits, hz, mono/stereo),
- otherwise strange things will happen. Will be fixed in the next version.

Guitar Mode Maker is a software will help the guitar player learn scales, modes, chords, and create new scales. Designed to be easy enough for the beginner and comprehensive for the advanced user! Learn Chords and Scales. Review the Chord and Scale List for GMM 3.0. Over 750 Chords and Scales Included in the trial installation!
This program also has the capability of the user sharing their scales with others through a new and improved, unique scale file (.GS2 file)!
Guitar Mode Maker 1.0 for linux comes with hundreds of scales, chords and modes to help you learn! Guitar Mode Maker 1.0 is available only for Linux.
Additionally for BASS GUITAR PLAYERS, Bass Guitar Mode Maker! Now bass players can have all the scales, modes and chords too! Bass Guitar Mode Maker 3.0 available for download now!
Main features:
- Easy scale creation by clicking on the fretboard, note list or piano keyboard
- Easy scale transposition
- Ability to save Guitar Scale files, even in trial version
- Ability to hear your scale played by acoustic guitar, 12-string or piano
- 750 Scales and chords TO START WITH!
- Ability to print guitar scale on printer!
- Easier to use interface (Screen Shot)

Mustajuuri (Black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica) is an audio signal processing application and toolkit. It is designed to meet wide range of needs.
The first and foremost is real-time effects processing. Mustajuuri can process guitar, vocals or any instrument with ease. It is also useful if you have a virtual reality system with more than 10 loudspeakers and you wonder how to control them all.
The basic philosophy is to combine the good features of many existing applications - not to simply copy one. Apps Id like to surpass are ProTools, CuBase and all the others. To make this possible Mustajuuri has an extremely flexible and powerful plugin model.
Mustajuuri acts as a core framework upon which applications can be built. One can build applications directly as plugins (quite easy) or use the Mustajuuri libraries and plugins as a class library.
Usages:
- Sound file editing
- Mixing
- Real-time effects processing
- Real-time sound analysis
- Sound processing for virtual reality system
Main features:
- Graphical user interface
- Good real-time operation
- Plugin-based system
- LADSPA plugin support (both import and export)
- Plugins for audio file I/O and MIDI I/O
- Openness - both as open source and as open for different uses
- Platfrom-agnostic
- Internationalization
- Multiple user interface options
- Easy-to-program plugin API with powerful support libraries
Enhancements:
- This release adds some ALSA-related bugfixes, compiles cleanly on GCC 4, and adds documentation about Mustajuuri to LADSPA plugin conversion.

Rosegarden project is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Main features:
- Score, piano-roll, event list and track overview editors
- MIDI and audio playback and recording with ALSA and JACK
- Audio plugin support using LADSPA
- Score interpretation of performance MIDI data
- MIDI file I/O, Csound, Lilypond and MusicXML export
- Clear and consistent KDE-based user interface
- Shareable device (.rgd) files to ease MIDI portability
- Translations into Russian, Spanish, German, French, Welsh, Italian, Swedish and Estonian, as well as UK and US English.
Enhancements:
- * Avoid xruns on exit
- Fix the guitar clef (was treble -15, should be treble -8)
- Fix failure to export all tracks when exporting to MIDI
- Fix export of empty lyrics to Lilypond
- Make project packager errors a bit more helpful
- Skip non-MIDI tracks when exporting to Lilypond
- Initialise LADSPA plugin buffers to zero if running only for latency calculation
- Dont send bank or program changes for unused instruments (it could override program changes for instruments that are in use)
- Fix incorrect label display on track buttons after popping up but not selecting from the right-button menu, if Show Track Labels is not set
- Add a couple of new instrument definitions
- Update Swedish, Czech and Japanese translations