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Product Description:
FretPet is a music sequencer with an interface based entirely around the guitar in which you compose using chords, fingerings, and picking patterns. FretPet plays through the built-in Quicktime synthesizer and provides a MIDI source for synthesizers like GarageBand, Absynth, FM7, Reason, MIDIPipe, etc. FretPet has been completely re-written to take full advantage of the amazing musical powers of Mac OS X.
- 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
- Absorb music theory without breaking a sweat
What's new in this version:
- Compiled as a Universal Binary for Intel-based Macs (consider this a beta!)
- Added visual feedback to the Circle Palette
- Fixed a bug loading guitar images in a Unicode pathname
- Fixed a bug in which fingering overrides weren't reflected in the document
- Fixed a bug in which inactive menu items didn't block raw key events
- Fixed a bug in which Paste Tones failed to update the Scale Cursor
- Fixed an issue where Undo / Redo improperly affected playback
- Fixed a bug where the Revert command would crash the program
- Changed the keyboard to only light up tones in the current part
- Reduced the size of the application's resource files
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
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
- Universal Binary
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A lot of thought and effort. 
- Version: 1.1d7, 11/17/2007 05:15PM PST
rayk86ss
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- A lot of thought and effort.
A lot of thought and effort. - Version: 1.1d7, 11/17/2007 05:15PM PST
rayk86ss
Someone obviously put a great deal of effort into making this product, but I'm not sure that it addresses the needs of many guitar players. Opening the application causes at least five small windows to appear. These windows show notes on a guitar neck, keyboard, and sequencer at the same time. The images are too small to look at while holding a guitar. I had to put the guitar down and peer intently at each image over the top of my glasses. A magnifying glass is a recommended accessory.
The program comes with several demo music like things with and extension of .fret. Opening one of them causes the computer to begin playing and the notes to flash on the guitar neck, etc. The demo music is rather mechanical sounding and uninteresting. As the chords change the display also shows mode changes from Ionic to Dorian to Myxolidian, etc. If I wanted to learn to play guitar so that I sounded like a machine this program could teach me in minutes.
I am sure that I am being unfair in my criticism. I think that this application could be a tremendous resource for someone that could learn how to use it. For an old fashioned guy who is uninterested in the modes of the major scale Fretpet is perhaps overkill. For example: Suppose I have a midi file of a Lester Young or Charlie Parker sax solo. I can already play the song in garage band and learn it by ear, but suppose I want to work out the most efficient fingering with a guitar neck display. Fretpet may allow such work, but I could not figure out how.
All in all it may be a lot quicker and easier to learn to read sheet music instead.
The program comes with several demo music like things with and extension of .fret. Opening one of them causes the computer to begin playing and the notes to flash on the guitar neck, etc. The demo music is rather mechanical sounding and uninteresting. As the chords change the display also shows mode changes from Ionic to Dorian to Myxolidian, etc. If I wanted to learn to play guitar so that I sounded like a machine this program could teach me in minutes.
I am sure that I am being unfair in my criticism. I think that this application could be a tremendous resource for someone that could learn how to use it. For an old fashioned guy who is uninterested in the modes of the major scale Fretpet is perhaps overkill. For example: Suppose I have a midi file of a Lester Young or Charlie Parker sax solo. I can already play the song in garage band and learn it by ear, but suppose I want to work out the most efficient fingering with a guitar neck display. Fretpet may allow such work, but I could not figure out how.
All in all it may be a lot quicker and easier to learn to read sheet music instead.
Crashes on startup - Version: 1.0.7, 2/3/2007 11:21AM PST
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Can't get FretPet to boot on my dual 867Mhz G4. Crashes on startup.
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The program comes with several demo music like things with and extension of .fret. Opening one of them causes the computer to begin playing and the notes to flash on the guitar neck, etc. The demo music is rather mechanical sounding and uninteresting. As the chords change the display also shows mode changes from Ionic to Dorian to Myxolidian, etc. If I wanted to learn to play guitar so that I sounded like a machine this program could teach me in minutes.
I am sure that I am being unfair in my criticism. I think that this application could be a tremendous resource for someone that could learn how to use it. For an old fashioned guy who is uninterested in the modes of the major scale Fretpet is perhaps overkill. For example: Suppose I have a midi file of a Lester Young or Charlie Parker sax solo. I can already play the song in garage band and learn it by ear, but suppose I want to work out the most efficient fingering with a guitar neck display. Fretpet may allow such work, but I could not figure out how.
All in all it may be a lot quicker and easier to learn to read sheet music instead.