Songwrite 2 is a tablature editor for Linux, written in Python with GTK and Cairo. A tablature is a guitar partition ; Songwrite 2 supports many string instruments in addition to traditional staffs.
With Songwrite 2 you can...
- ...edit tablatures (guitar, bass, banjo,...) and staff, and add lyrics to write your own songs !
- ...create your own songbook
- ...play your partitions
- ...print your partitions and your songs
- ...convert automatically staffs to tablatures and tablatures to staffs
- ...export your songs into many formats (PDF, Midi, ASCII tablatures, GNU Lilypond, LaTeX, PostScript,...)
- ...import Guitar Pro 3 / 4 file (experimental)
Songwrite 2 is a complete rewrite of Songwrite 1 with :
- A new interface based on Gtk 2 and Cairo, with anti-aliasing
- A new staff rendering engine, now handling tonality and alteration correctly
- A new plugin system
- A new documentation
- Printing support updated for recent version of Lilypond (2.11.20 and above)