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Product Description:
A fully-integrated set of tools for the guitarist (And other musicians). Tools include a 2 tuners (chromatic and tonal), tablature organizer, chord library, metronome, gig manager, web manager, jam machine, and song jam.
Tuners:
- Choose between 2 separate tuning modules. Either the microphone-sensitive Chromatic tuner, or the Tone tuner (by ear)
- Chromatic tuner listens to your guitar, and helps you get in tune quickly, automatically.
- Tone tuner plays reference notes to help you tune your instrument. Included voices even include many guitars, piano, harpsichord, banjo, sitar, and more.
- Special "Loop Note", "Chord Cycler", "Strum", and "Pick" to accommodate your tuning style.
- Alternate tunings are fully supported - easily allows you to store an unlimited number of custom tuning configurations.
Song Slow-Down:
- Slow down the playback rate of any song on your computer (Or an audio CD), without changing its pitch - all in realtime. This helps you learn even the most complicated songs with ease.
Tablature:
- Easily organizes your guitar tablature into a single library - making it an essential tool for any guitarist that regularly refers to tabs on their computer. Add an unlimited number of tabs for easy, quick access.
- Variable-speed automatic scrolling feature makes it easy to play-along with your tab.
- "Easy Read" feature changes the text into a much more readable format.
- With a single click, you can automatically get the tablature for the currently selected song in iTunes (Macintosh only feature), or find new tablature using the integrated search feature.
- Import tablature you have on your computer for easy cataloging. Includes drag/drop support. (Support for text, ascii, and .crd files).
Chord Library:
- Find popular chords using an easy-to-read "virtual" guitar fretboard (Available in 2 styles).
- Hundreds of chords available, with dynamic fret numbering.
- Listen to the chords using any of the 10 built-in instruments.
- Left-handed mode reverses all chords, making it the ultimate tool for lefties.
Tools Tools Tools:
- Many other tools are included in this software package. Including a fully-adjustable metronome, jam machine, song jam, low-octave bass tuner, gig manager, web manager, and much, much more.
What's new in this version:
- Guitar Shed is now compiled using Mach-O for better performance.
- Various fixes, optimizations, and interface improvements have been made to the entire suite.
- The Chromatic Tuner (part of the Guitar Shed suite for Macintosh) is now a Universal Application, and will run natively on newer Intel-based Macs, as well as older PPC-based Macs too.
- Now correctly quits when tuner window is closed.
- Many 3rd-party sound input devices should work correctly now.
- Accuracy of the metronome has been improved substantially.
- Accent note is now played for the first beat (metronome).
- Now supports protected iTunes Music Store songs that you've purchased.
- AAC and Apple Lossless audio files can now be played as well.
- ID3(v1) tags will be loaded if available to show Artist/Song title.
- Song slow-down without changing the pitch is smoother, and offers a larger range of speeds than before.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements:
- QuickTime 7 required for song slow-down without changing pitch feature
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Tuner seems more or less useless - Version: 2.9.9.5, 1/25/2007 10:23PM PST
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Graham_Cox_727
I only really downloaded this for the tuner. I might be able to make use of some of the rest of it later, but for now, I have to say the tuner is useless. I'm only using it with the internal microphone on my MacBook, which took a bit of fiddling about in the Midi Setup Utility (then the tuner itself must be quit and restarted, something its help dialog fails to mention).
The main "needle" display of the tuner doesn't work - it hovers around at the -50 end of the scale no matter how delicately or roughly you tune. Since this isn't giving you a worthwhile indication of tune, you have to go by either the numbers, which change too rapidly and jumpily to be useful, or by the colour, which is equally erratic.
The programmer needs to a) fix the needle display so it works, and b) put in some sort of damping time-constant so that the thing isn't so jittery. Then it might be OK. Also, a better default configuration would be to use the built-in microphone right from the get-go without any further setup needed - this is how most people are likely to use it initially.
The main "needle" display of the tuner doesn't work - it hovers around at the -50 end of the scale no matter how delicately or roughly you tune. Since this isn't giving you a worthwhile indication of tune, you have to go by either the numbers, which change too rapidly and jumpily to be useful, or by the colour, which is equally erratic.
The programmer needs to a) fix the needle display so it works, and b) put in some sort of damping time-constant so that the thing isn't so jittery. Then it might be OK. Also, a better default configuration would be to use the built-in microphone right from the get-go without any further setup needed - this is how most people are likely to use it initially.
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- Tuner seems more or less useless
Tuner still does not work - Version: 2.9.9.5, 10/9/2006 10:57AM PST
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Ataritox
The main feature I want to use guitar shed for does not work (never has), with my presonus firebox audio recording interface. It seems there is a bug/problem getting external audio interfaces (not just the firebox) to get recognized by the tuner.
I know they are trying to fix it and get it to work but how hard can it be. Its ridiculous to sell a product that does not work, and its not like I am using some cheapo input device.
I know they are trying to fix it and get it to work but how hard can it be. Its ridiculous to sell a product that does not work, and its not like I am using some cheapo input device.
saying we have received your query- then THEY IGNORE IT.
You have been warned.