[LAU] Boss GT-n pedal board editor/librarian

[Dave Phillips]

Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Ken Restivo wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:53:34AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I'm going to profile this software in LJ soon but I thought LAUyers 
>>> might like to know about now:
>>>
>>>     http://gtx.tinfoilmusic.net/
>>>
>>> Very neat stuff. I tested it with my guitarist's GT-3, it's fantastic. 
>>> Considering that you can get a used GT for ~$100 - 150, you can buy one, 
>>> download this (libre, GPL'd) software, and you're ~$200 better off than 
>>> if you'd purchased Guitar Rig 3 (and had to run it under Wine). ;) <---- 
>>> (That's a humor sign, just in case.)
>>>
>>> Btw, the software is available for the GT-3/6/8/10/Pro and the 6b/10b 
>>> versions for the bass guitar. Kudos to Colin Willcocks for an impressive 
>>> job well done.
>>>       
>> Wine??! Horrors!
>>
>> I'd think the only worhtwhile alternative to a GT-3 would be to run Guitarix in Linux, of course.
>>
>>     
>
> not necessarily wine. afaics, the stuff is cross-platform, qt4 for the
> gui and rtmidi for the midi things, so that it can can be built and run
> to linux natively (x11 and alsa midi).

Just to clarify: I was referring to running Guitar Rig under Wine, not 
the Fx Floorboards software (which, as Rui points out, runs natively 
under Linux).

Best,

dp