GUITARIX(1)

NAME
guitarix - guitar amp simulator and effects processor

SYNOPSIS
guitarix [options]

DESCRIPTION
Guitarix is a rock guitar amplifier for Jack (Jack Audio Connection Kit) with one input and two outputs. It is designed to get nice trash/metal/rock guitar sounds. Guitarix comes with a GTK+ graphical user interface and a set of LADSPA plugins. This manual page describes the GTK+ interface.

Guitarix provides one JACK input port and two JACK output ports. Controls for bass, treble, gain, compressor, preamp, balance, distortion, freeverb, crybaby (wah) and echo are available. A fixed resonator is used when distortion is disabled. To modify the sound 'pressure', you can use the feedback and feedforward sliders.

Guitarix includes an experimental tuner and a JACK MIDI output port with 3 channels. They are fed by a mix from a pitch tracker and a beat detector. You can pitch the octave (2 octaves up or down), choose the MIDI channel, the MIDI program, the velocity and the sensitiviy, which translates into how fast the note will read after the beat detector emits a signal. Values for the beat detector can be set for all channels.

OPTIONS
All parameters are optional. Examples:

    guitarix
    guitarix -r gx4-black -i system:capture_3
    guitarix -c -o system:playback_1 -o system:playback_2

  Help Options

-h, --help
    Show help options

--help-all
    Show all help options

--help-style
    GTK style configuration options

--help-jack
    JACK configuration options

--help-file
    File options

--help-debug
    Debug options

--help-gtk
    Show GTK+ Options

  GTK style configuration options

-c, --clear
    Use 'default' GTK style

-r, --rcset=STYLE
    Style to use, 'gx1-alloy', 'gx2-emerald', 'gx3-dezert', 'gx4-black', 'gx5-gree'

  JACK Configuration Options

-i, --jack-input=PORT
    Guitarix JACK input

-o, --jack-output=PORT
    Guitarix JACK outputs

-m, --jack-midi=PORT
    Guitarix JACK MIDI control

-J, --jack-no-conect
    dissable self-connect JACK ports

-n, --name=NAME
    instance name (default gx_head)

-U, --jack-uuid
    JackSession ID

-A, --jack-uuid2
    JackSession ID

-s, --server-name=NAME
    JACK server name to connect to

  File Options

-f, --load-file=FILE
    load state file on startup

-P, --plugin-dir=DIR
    directory with guitarix plugins (.so files)

-K, --dissable-auto-save
    dissable auto save to state file when quit

  Debug Options

-B, --builder-dir=DIR
    directory from which .glade files are loaded

-S, --style-dir=DIR
    directory with skin style definitions (.rc files)

-t, --log-terminal
    print log on terminal

-d, --dump-parameter
    dump parameter table in JSON format

  GTK+ Options

--class=CLASS
    Program class as used by the window manager

--gtk-name=NAME
    Program name as used by the window manager

--screen=SCREEN
    X screen to use

--sync
    Make X calls synchronous

--gtk-module=MODULES
    Load additional GTK+ modules

--g-fatal-warnings
    Make all warnings fatal

  Application Options

-v, --version
    Print version string and exit

--display=DISPLAY
    X display to use

AUTHORS
Guitarix is Copyright (c) 2010 Hermman Meyer - James Warden - Andreas Degert

This man page was created for the SlackBuilds.org project by B. Watson, but it can be used by anyone.