Recording King Diamond with Guitarix and TuxGuitar

[ycollette]

Hello,

Here is a video of a King Diamond / Mommy recording on Fedora 30.
I use Tuxguitar for backing tracks and Guitarix (git version) for the guitar sound.
I use also Ray Session to manage the jack session. And non-mixer to adjust levels between guitarix and tuxguitar.
SimpleScreenRecorder and XawTV have been used for the "live" recording of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6d25nmAsgk

Best regards !

Yann

[milo]

That is really ambitious to do in TuxGuitar. I have wrtten a few multi-voice tablatures there, but have never been happy with the interface. You are getting some decent sounds out of it though. Nice work!

[ycollette]

Thanks !

For the Tuxguitar sound, I use the 63mg The Xioad Bank soundfont which has a decent sound for metal.
I tested Musescore to playback a guitar pro score and before MuseScore 3, there was a real time rendering problem. A lot of xruns.
Now, with Musescore 3, it works fine ...

A little while ago I made a comparison of different soundfont on a tuxguitar score:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7fFXbFxLwI

I think the score used was not really suited to deeply test the soundfont, but as you can here, some soundfonts are quite poor ...

[Rainmak3r]

Love the Warlock guitar!
By the way, as a Fedora user myself I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you, since your repos helped me install a lot of stuff not available in the official repos (drumgizmo and linuxsampler come to mind!)

[ycollette]

Thanks a lot for your feedback, it's really appreciated ...

The Warlock guitar is quite confortable and easy to play. And the sound is nice too.

[ChuggnBlues]

Good job! The tone actually came out pretty good, I'm always pretty impressed by guitarix. How bad is the latency?

[ycollette]

For the latency: qjackctl measure 10.7ms.
I used a while ago a different configuration and was able to reach 5.33 ms. And I made some kind of comparison:

The video of King Diamond / From The Other Side played with a 96khz sampling frequency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L8MdgKeWbI

The same song, but at 48khz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0UTFaNDVk

The sound card: Focusrite Scarlett 18i8