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FretPet 1.2.4 adds keyboard shortcuts to the Filters menu, fixes an issue with playback being interrupted by menus, and now includes Sparkle to automatic check the internet for version updates. Also fixed Kagi Registration module connection problem.

Download FretPetX124.dmg (Disk Image, 4.6 MB)

Recent scrutiny of ChordCalc's notation code continues to push FretPet forward. This update brings FretPet's chord notation up to par with ChordCalc 1.0.3.

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Tonight's petcast composition comes from Tucker Stilley, whose website The Permanent Record features creative works in various forms of media. As a working artist and composer, Tucker is distinctive in that he's paralyzed by Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the neurodegenerative disease made famous by Lou Gehrig and Stephen Hawking. Since all his work in FretPet has to be done using a head mouse and remapped buttons, he's had to improvise to produce a more conducive workflow. Using multiple document windows as scratchpads, he develops his compositions in chunks before recombining them to produce a finished piece. Tucker has loads of feature suggestions for FretPet which I surely hope to incorporate as time allows. The artwork featured here is a detail from Tucker's painting "Hardest Thing."

Continuing in my obsession with chord notation, another improved version of FretPet rolls off the assembly line.

Download FretPetX122.dmg (Disk Image, 4.6 MB)

This is a bugfix release addressing a chord name drawing issue.

Download FretPetX121.dmg (Disk Image, 4.5 MB)

This release begins to address longstanding issues with the chord notation code, especially extended diminished chords. This is also the first version to include Italian localization.

Download FretPetX120.dmg (Disk Image, 4.5 MB)

This piece is a simple combination of ethereal trills and a club-friendly beat that doesn't say very much, kind of like the shy girl you met at that rave last weekend.

FretPet is a unique guitar-oriented music sequencer, an educational tool for learning music theory, a controller for software and external synthesizers, a reference for all things relating to notes, chords, keys, and scales. and an indispensible assistant for creating coherent musical compositions with ease.

This piece was created in FretPet as an experiment to see what kind of syncopation happens if you combine sets of 3 with sets of 5 in a 15 beat measure. I then recorded it in Garageband and added a 4/4 beat. So now if you listen carefully you'll notice that each measure ends a little bit ahead of the beat. There are sets of three tones that fall on every fifth beat and sets of five tones that fall on every third beat, which together create a really interesting syncopated sound.

The changes are very simple, mostly relying on the drums changing. There are no breaks in this piece, so it zooms right along. With some alternate voicing a couple of short breaks might be very welcome within this sequence.

This bugfix release addresses issues discovered since version 1.1.

Download FretPetX111.dmg (Disk Image, 4.6 MB)