Thinkyhead Software Announces FretPet 1.0.2 For Mac OS X

February 15, 2006

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.

FretPet is shareware. Single user licenses can be purchased from the Kagi Store for $30.

Requirements

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
128MB RAM
Quartz Extreme capable graphics card

Features

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

New for Mac OS X

Streamlined and enhanced Aqua-style interface
Infinite Undo / Redo
Accelerated OpenGL graphics
Guitar and Keyboard animation during playback
Guitar Palette can directly display note functions
Direct Transform in Scale, Keyboard, Guitar, and Circle
MIDI source for software synths like GarageBand™, Absynth™, etc.
Channels Palette for QuickTime and MIDI configuration
Guitar Images fully user-customizable
Enhanced Filters menu
Improved MIDI and Movie Export
Full mouse wheel support

For more information, visit their web site at http://www.thinkyhead.com.

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