Thinkyhead Announces Update To FretPet

June 26, 2006

Announcing the release of FretPet 1.0.5 for Mac OS X. This release fixes a bug in which tuning the low string below C would cause a crash.

About FretPet:
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.

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

Requirements:

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

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

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