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You have a chord on the guitar and want to know more about it.... You want to practice your timing but your metronome puts you to sleep.... You'd like to transpose a song into a different key... You've got GarageBand and now you want to compose music!.... You'd like to learn music theory but the books just sit there silently.... You're looking for just the right note to modify a chord.... You'd like to experiment with other tunings but don't know the fingerings.... FretPet can help!
FretPet is a unique guitar-oriented music sequencer, an educational tool for learning music theory, a controller for software and external synthesizers, a reference for all things relating to notes, chords, keys, and scales. and an indispensible assistant for creating coherent musical compositions with ease.FretPet is a guitar-oriented music sequencer. Its dynamic interface makes writing music fun and surprisingly easy. FretPet is centered around the six-string guitar, so it makes an ideal reference tool for finding the names of chords on the fretboard. The program can show you any chord in any tuning.
FretPet's interface is informative, colorful, interactive, and fun. Document windows maintain your chords and picking patterns in neat vertical stacks while FretPet's nine interactive palettes provide the information you need most when you're working with notes, chords, and scales.
Use the navigation bar above to learn more about each of FretPet's windows.
Writing Music
Writing music with FretPet is amazingly intuitive. A FretPet Composition is built from small repeating sections. Simply select a range of chords, press play, and those chords loop repeatedly while you edit them. You can make changes to any aspect of your composition as it plays without any interruption in flow. And the Free Edit Mode allows you to completely control the movement so you can use FretPet as an improvisational instrument in live performance.
Guitar Expert
FretPet was originally conceived as a tool for making guitar chords and finding chord names. The interface of FretPet still centers on these functions. Without ever creating a document you can make a chord, see all its possible names in the Chord Palette, see and hear all its fingerings in the Guitar Palette, and modify it in dozens of ways via the Circle Palette and Chord menu.
Music Reference
Playing with FretPet is an interactive learning experience. FretPet presents notes, scales, and chords in a straightforward and pleasing way, making it easier than ever to discover and explore harmonic relationships. Music students will have no trouble comprehending the way chords and harmonies relate in FretPet. Beginners will see a whole universe of music theory take shape before their eyes and ears.
MIDI Control
FretPet X uses Apple's CoreMIDI technology to provide a MIDI source for external and software synthesizers alike. You can use FretPet to play through GarageBand, Reason, Absynth, FM7, and dozens of other synths and utilities. Just as these synthesizers enhance the sound of FretPet, FretPet X takes these popular titles to entirely new and exciting places.
Features
• Create and modify chords with simple point-and-click interfaces
• Instantly find guitar fingerings for any tuning and position
• Compose chord progressions and picking patterns
• Play through QuickTime and MIDI outputs
• Play through synths like GarageBand, Absynth, FM7, etc
• Export MIDI files and QuickTime Music Movies
• Find all twelve names for any chord
• Transpose and harmonize chords on the fly
• Use filters to transform entire groups of chords
• Absorb music theory without breaking a sweat
New for Mac OS X
• Multi-level Undo / Redo
• New Channels Palette with QuickTime and MIDI options
CoreMIDI support enables FretPet to act as a MIDI source
Improved color-coded Scale Palette
• Roundly redesigned Circle Palette
• Improved Filters menu with three different apply modes
• Clone Filter with "Harmonize/Transpose Each" option
Improved Fret Bracket appearance and behavior
• Added playback animation to Keyboard, Circle, and Guitar palettes
• Sliders and other controls respond to the scroll-wheel
• Proportional sized frets in the Guitar Palette
• Larger guitars suitable for modern hi-rez displays
• Larger Keyboard Palette display options
• Customizable Guitar bundles (easy to create your own)
• Guitar Palette now displays notes as dots, letters, or functions
New in version 1.2.3:
• Completely new chord notation code fixes several errors
• Includes (incomplete and likely bad) Italian localization
• Added support for half-diminished chords
• Chord name no longer drawn in red when the root is locked
• Fixed window alignment when the Dock is on the left
System requirements:
• PowerMac with a G3, G4, G5, or Core Duo processor
• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher
• 256MB RAM Recommended
• Display Resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater
System Support:
PPC/Intel
$30.00 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.thinkyhead.com/fretpet
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