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All questions related to creation of guitar specific software: tuners, editors, processors, etc

As guitar is most popular musical instrument, there are many guitar specific software:

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Guitar Chord Recognition Algorithm?

Whats a good digital signal processing algorithm that is good on guitar chords? Since Fast Fourier Transform I think only is accurate on single notes played on the guitar but not notes that are played simultaenously (i.e. chords). Thanks!
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Create an image in PHP to show guitar chords

I have a site that shows guitar chords/tabs in text format. Here's what I am currently displaying: Em: | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I learn that GD can create a dynamic image for this. But I am new at PHP and I have…
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How to find the fundamental frequency of a guitar string sound?

I want to build a guitar tuner app for Iphone. My goal is to find the fundamental frequency of sound generated by a guitar string. I have used bits of code from aurioTouch sample provided by Apple to calculate frequency spectrum and I find the…
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Reading Guitar Pro files

I was wondering if anybody had heard of a library, preferably a .NET assembly, but Java will do as wel, that allows you to read the data in a Guitar Pro file (.gp3-gp4-gp5) I have this gigantor of a folder with about 50.000 song files, and would…
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Markdown for Guitar Chords and Lyrics

I'm trying to figure out a good way to be able to store plain text music lyrics with synchronized guitar chords. When displayed, I'd like to see the lyrics rendered double-spaced with the chords in the "whitespace" line above the corresponding…
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Easiest way to produce guitar chords in linux and/or python

What i'm trying to achieve is playing a guitar chord from my python application. I know (or can calculate) the frequencies in the chord if needed. I'm thinking that even if I do the low level leg work of producing multiple sine waves at the right…
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Android and Guitar Hero controller

I know that the latest versions of Android (Honeycomb and ICS) have support for joysticks and gamepads. Guitar Hero (and Garage Band) controllers are essentially USB HID devices, right? So my question: Is that possible to receive data (button…
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Guitar tablature data format

I'm writing a quick front end to display guitar tablature. The front end is in Flash but I want to store the tab in some human-readable format. Anyone know of something that already exists? Any suggestions on how to go about it? One idea I got from…
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How to detect string when pitch-tracking on electric guitar?

Hi I'm a noob in audio related coding and I'm working in a pitch tracking DLL that I will use to try to create a sort of open-source version of the video-game Rocksmith as a learning experience. So far I have managed to get the FFT to work so I can…
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Calculate the most comfortable finger positions for a guitar chord in a chord progression

I would like to calculate how comforable it would be to play a given chord progression with different "fingerings" (e.g. open chords, vs bar chords). For instance, if we have the chord progression G D Em C. For most people the most confortable way…
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Regex for standard guitar lyric/chord bracketing

I am trying to add square brackets around chords in standard text documents formatted for guitar/lyrics to make them more compatible with the OnSong app. I have the rules but don't understand how to match for all the possible combinations. The…
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How to detect string tone from FFT

I've got spectrum from a Fourier transformation. It looks like this: Police was just passing nearby Color represents intensity. X axis is time. Y axis is frequency - where 0 is at top. While whistling or a police siren leave only one trace, many…
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How to synthesize sounds of instruments on Android (Piano, Drums, Guitar, etc...)

Can somebody give me some direction on how to synthesize sounds of instruments (Piano, Drums, Guitar, etc...) I am not even sure what to look for. Thanks
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Python: Reading GuitarPro (.gp5) files

I'm new to writing questions here, so please feel free to point out how i can improve the quality of future questions! Edit: More code included as was asked in the comments I'm trying to read GuitarPro files into python. These files essentially…
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Are there any tutorials on how to add an overdrive effect to audio in real time using C# and NAudio?

I'm making an overdrive pedal for electric guitar using C# and NAudio. So far I have managed to output sound from the mic input in real time but now need a way of overdriving the sound.
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