FretPet X 1.0.6 review

FretPet is a powerful guitar-oriented music sequencer, composition tool, and musical toy with a unique dynamic interface.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 3286K Developer: Scott Lahteine Buy Now Price: $30.00 Updated: 03 Aug 2006

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FretPet is a powerful guitar-oriented music sequencer, composition tool, and musical toy with a unique dynamic interface. Use FretPet to make chords, choose fingerings in any tuning, build chord progressions, sequence picking patterns, and quickly create coherent musical compositions that you can use for web, multimedia, and professional recording.

FretPet uses the built-in QuickTime synthesizer and acts as a CoreMIDI source device for programs like GarageBand, Absynth, FM7, Reason, SimpleSynth, MIDIPipe, and many others. FretPet exports to QuickTime MOV and Standard MIDI formats.

Here are some key features of "FretPet X":
View tones in many common modes and scales
Create, extend, transpose, and harmonize chords
Quickly locate fingerings on the fretboard in any tuning
Build chord progressions with picking patterns in multiple voices
Simultaneously compose, improvise, and perform
Play output through QuickTime
Play output through CoreMIDI-savvy synthesizers
Export to MIDI and QuickTime file formats.

Limitations:
Save disabled.

What's New:
Added an option to display letter names on the fretboard.

Requirements:
800MHz G4 or better,
Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Quartz Extreme capable graphics card.