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Since this is somewhat related - I've often wanted an open-source "tab player" (and more importantly tab _editor_) for various side project ideas I have kicking

Since this is somewhat related - I've often wanted an open-source "tab player" (and more importantly tab _editor_) for various side project ideas I have kicking around in my head. Is anyone aware of something like that? Most of the searching I've done hasn't turned up too much in the way of results. Flat.io has a pretty cool offering, but if I could find something that would be fully under my control, that would be even cooler.

beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
There is TuxGuitar. It can be buggy, but works pretty well most of the time. The one limitation you'll have is I don't think it can play gpx files if that is what you're looking for. *edit: I don't know about the current status of maintenance on it. I remember development fading away some years ago, but I also see some recent updates so maybe it has been picked up again.
- agentwiggles 4y ago
  Tux is great for what it is! I didn't specify this in my OP, but I'm looking for something that could be embedded in a web app. Still though, TuxGuitar is a great piece of software, I used it a ton in my early guitar days.
- cobalt 4y ago
  TuxGuitar is also great for making your own tabs. songsterr.com accepts its tab format (or tux exports to a common one, I forget)
- cozzyd 4y ago
  Did guitar pro really name their files gpx like the GPS XML format?
- Raidion 4y ago
  I went to go see if I could contribute and modify the tempo to accelerate by less than 1% a repeat. I found the development hard to get into, source control was subversion and documentation was sparse. This was a few years ago so it may not be accurate.
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adrianh 4y ago
Check out Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/ https://www.soundslice.com/) — I founded it 10 years ago and we're a team of three people. It's a world-class learning and practice tool for music, with a built-in notation/tab editor, all web-based. The learning/practice tool (our player) is embeddable in your own site, though the editor isn't. It's not 100% what you're asking for, but perhaps you'll find it interesting!
- sogen 4y ago
  Does it support drums? Only see guitar pictures.
  - adrianh 4y ago
    Yes, Soundslice does indeed support drums. Lots of people use it for that!
    - sogen 4y ago
      Thanks!
- agentwiggles 4y ago
  Very cool - this is in the same vertical as my burgeoning side project so it's both encouraging and slightly intimidating to see your work! I've actually used your tool before when trying to break down a solo from a youtube video, it's pretty awesome. You're also quite a talented guitarist - I really liked your arrangment of the Mario Odyssey theme! (side note - what a cool thing about HN, to run into the folks behind useful software!)
johtso 4y ago
I was looking for something similar recently when I wanted to be able to embed sheet music into Obsidian notes. Have you come across https://alphatab.net/ https://alphatab.net/? Seems like a really slick feature rich open source project. It supports Guitar Pro formats, MusicXML, and also its own text based format. Editing is a whole other kettle of fish and I'd be surprised if there was a polished open source option out there..
- agentwiggles 4y ago
  That is really cool, but yeah, editing is the hard part. A few years back, I tried my hand at building my own editor with VexFlow as the renderer. As you can imagine it's a really difficult problem and my skills at the time were nowhere near up to the task - although I think I could make a better run at it today. Still, especially while I'm prototyping, being able to find something pre built would be awesome. I've even thought about trying to do something something WASM with TuxGuitar (no clue whether that would be viable or less work than trying to build it from scratch). If I get to the point where I feel I need tab editing for my current project, I'll likely wind up integrating Flat.io, which looks like the closest thing to an out of the box solution I've found so far. I love the idea of being able to embed music notation into Obsidian (or Notion, which I used before Obsidian), it seems so handy.
waiseristy 4y ago
https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor Compatible with the original PowerTab 1.0 files too, so a huge preexisting tab library
jemmyw 4y ago
musecore is opensource and supports tab playing and editing alongside notation: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore edit: but I guess reading your comment again you're looking for something web based.
Mixtape 4y ago
This is very similar to my upcoming senior design project! We're making a learning tool that will allow you to write up tabs, play them back with production audio, and then play along with them. Once the play-along is complete, we'll be implementing a system for evaluating your performance accuracy using some basic numerical analysis principles. It's a big project, but we've got the entire semester ahead of us and a lot of passion behind it. If you're interested, let me know and I'll link you to the repo once we're underway.
metaketa 4y ago
Contact me at https://parture.org https://parture.org

beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago

There is TuxGuitar. It can be buggy, but works pretty well most of the time. The one limitation you'll have is I don't think it can play gpx files if that is what you're looking for. *edit: I don't know about the current status of maintenance on it. I remember development fading away some years ago, but I also see some recent updates so maybe it has been picked up again.

agentwiggles 4y ago
Tux is great for what it is! I didn't specify this in my OP, but I'm looking for something that could be embedded in a web app. Still though, TuxGuitar is a great piece of software, I used it a ton in my early guitar days.
cobalt 4y ago
TuxGuitar is also great for making your own tabs. songsterr.com accepts its tab format (or tux exports to a common one, I forget)
cozzyd 4y ago
Did guitar pro really name their files gpx like the GPS XML format?
Raidion 4y ago
I went to go see if I could contribute and modify the tempo to accelerate by less than 1% a repeat. I found the development hard to get into, source control was subversion and documentation was sparse. This was a few years ago so it may not be accurate.

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adrianh 4y ago

Check out Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/ https://www.soundslice.com/) — I founded it 10 years ago and we're a team of three people. It's a world-class learning and practice tool for music, with a built-in notation/tab editor, all web-based. The learning/practice tool (our player) is embeddable in your own site, though the editor isn't. It's not 100% what you're asking for, but perhaps you'll find it interesting!

sogen 4y ago
Does it support drums? Only see guitar pictures.
- adrianh 4y ago
  Yes, Soundslice does indeed support drums. Lots of people use it for that!
  - sogen 4y ago
    Thanks!
agentwiggles 4y ago
Very cool - this is in the same vertical as my burgeoning side project so it's both encouraging and slightly intimidating to see your work! I've actually used your tool before when trying to break down a solo from a youtube video, it's pretty awesome. You're also quite a talented guitarist - I really liked your arrangment of the Mario Odyssey theme! (side note - what a cool thing about HN, to run into the folks behind useful software!)

johtso 4y ago

I was looking for something similar recently when I wanted to be able to embed sheet music into Obsidian notes. Have you come across https://alphatab.net/ https://alphatab.net/? Seems like a really slick feature rich open source project. It supports Guitar Pro formats, MusicXML, and also its own text based format. Editing is a whole other kettle of fish and I'd be surprised if there was a polished open source option out there..

agentwiggles 4y ago
That is really cool, but yeah, editing is the hard part. A few years back, I tried my hand at building my own editor with VexFlow as the renderer. As you can imagine it's a really difficult problem and my skills at the time were nowhere near up to the task - although I think I could make a better run at it today. Still, especially while I'm prototyping, being able to find something pre built would be awesome. I've even thought about trying to do something something WASM with TuxGuitar (no clue whether that would be viable or less work than trying to build it from scratch). If I get to the point where I feel I need tab editing for my current project, I'll likely wind up integrating Flat.io, which looks like the closest thing to an out of the box solution I've found so far. I love the idea of being able to embed music notation into Obsidian (or Notion, which I used before Obsidian), it seems so handy.

waiseristy 4y ago

https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor Compatible with the original PowerTab 1.0 files too, so a huge preexisting tab library

jemmyw 4y ago

musecore is opensource and supports tab playing and editing alongside notation: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore edit: but I guess reading your comment again you're looking for something web based.

Mixtape 4y ago

This is very similar to my upcoming senior design project! We're making a learning tool that will allow you to write up tabs, play them back with production audio, and then play along with them. Once the play-along is complete, we'll be implementing a system for evaluating your performance accuracy using some basic numerical analysis principles. It's a big project, but we've got the entire semester ahead of us and a lot of passion behind it. If you're interested, let me know and I'll link you to the repo once we're underway.

metaketa 4y ago

Contact me at https://parture.org https://parture.org