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Guitar Shed - 2.9.9.5

Learn to tune your guitar and organize tablatures.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 2.9.9.5
Release Date: 2006-10-06
License: Shareware
Downloads (this version): 9,949
Downloads (all versions): 1,088
Price: $18.00

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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:

  • Now a Universal Binary
  • Data is now stored in a much more efficient format. If you're upgrading from a previous version, your data will be automatically updated to use the new features.
  • Lots of small interface fixes, performance improvements, and overall stability added.
  • "Get Tab For Selected iTunes Song" feature provides much more accurate results, which now utilize the song's artist, song, and album info.
  • Tablature Search feature now uses WebKit for native rendering on Mac OS X.
  • Song Jam now plays unprotected AAC songs again. Also, the Treble/Bass equalizer sweep range is much greater allowing fine-tuning of your music and to help single out specific instruments.
  • Metronome is now multi-threaded to enhance time accuracy. Also, 7/8 and 12/8 time signatures are now correctly counted.
  • Gig Manager and Web Manager are fixed to allow editing again (This error previously occurred on some newer iMac and Mac Pro models).
  • Many other small fixes and optimizations for Intel-based Macs.
  • Chromatic Tuner: Note - if the tuner is not responding to your microphone/sound-input, click on the Help button now located on the Chromatic Tuner window for details. Most third-party audio devices should now work properly.
  • Update is free for all registered Guitar Shed 2 users.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • QuickTime 7 required for song slow-down without changing pitch feature Universal Binary (For Chromatic Tuner)

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Guitar Shed CommentaryBad Support - Version: 2.9.9, 11/19/2009 05:05AM PST

raggedbears
They do not respond to queries. You receive an automated response
saying we have received your query- then THEY IGNORE IT.
You have been warned.
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Guitar Shed CommentaryTuner 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.
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Guitar Shed ReviewTuner 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.

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