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A Lua (>=5.3) script starting up both TuxGuitar and ZynAddSubFX and connecting both via the JACK server (API>=v0.124.1) on GNU/Linux. So there is no need to either alter the settings of one of the programs or to do the wiring in QJackCtl manually.

Requirements

ZynAddSubFX

In order to use MIDI input port of ZynAddSubFX you, unfortunately, have to compile it from source.

So get a fresh copy, unpack the compressed file, and run the following commands

cd zynaddsubfx*

# Create a separate folder to build the program
mkdir build
cd build

# Generate a customized environment to compile the source code in. If
# you got an error in here, you have to install the required
# (development) packages using your distributions' package manager.
cmake ..

# Build the program
make

# Try your new ZynAddSubFX version
./src/zynaddsubfx

# Install the package system-wide
sudo make install 

TuxGuitar

Apart from the default package of TuxGuitar you also need its JACK extension.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tuxguitar tuxguitar-jack

Lua

Make sure you have both Lua of at least version 5.3 and LuaRocks installed.

In order to use the script in this repository you have to install the LuaJack and the luaposix packages.

The first one you have to clone from Github yourself.

git clone https://github.com/stetre/luajack
cd luajack
make
sudo make install

For the second one we use the Lua package manager.

luarocks install --local luaposix

Usage

First of all, make sure the JACK server is running on your system. A convenient way of automating its start-up is to call QjackCtl.

To run the script just type the following lines in your terminal

lua tux2zyn.lua

I would also recommend you to set the following alias in your .bashrc.

# Replace PATH-TO-TUX2LYN with the path to this repository.
alias tuxguitar='lua $HOME/PATH-TO-TUX2ZYN/tux2zyn.lua'