Compile Guitarix on Linux Mint 20

Nicola Landro
1 min readSep 16, 2020

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After compile Ardour another music interesting tool can be Guitarix. It is a rack and virtual amplifier for your guitar. You can add various , amplifier and more into a virtual and use it for your guitar.

Guitarix

Obviously if you want to have a real-time result you need an external audio card.

Requiremetns

sudo apt install intltool
sudo apt install jackd
sudo apt install libjack-dev
sudo apt install fonts-roboto
sudo apt install sassc
sudo apt install libgtkmm-3.0-dev
sudo apt install libzita-convolver-dev
sudo apt install libzita-resampler-dev
sudo apt install gperf
sudo apt install faust
sudo apt install libavahi-gobject-dev
sudo apt install libeigen3-dev

Build and install

Download from official site unzip and go into folder.

./waf configure
./waf build
sudo ./waf install

Run

guitarix

Conclusion

In this way you can use the last version of Guitarix to amplify your guitar.

Now you can create and share beautiful preset!

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Nicola Landro

Linux user and Open Source fun. Deep learning PhD. , Full stack web developer, Mobile developer, cloud engineer and Musitian.