Tags: music

This release adds audio feedback to the free version of ChordCalc.

This release fixes a minor glitch where the dots for certain note functions were invisible on the guitar fretboard. Never mind version 1.0.3 - this is the best ChordCalc yet!

This release brings the Lite version of ChordCalc into full parity with ChordCalc 1.0.4, with the most accurate chord notation, an extended keyboard with musical symbols, better highlighting on the Scale screen, and other enhancements.

The most major update yet! I spent many late nights improving chord notation and made some great interface improvements too. The keyboard now includes an extra row of keys with the most common musical symbols, and chord name input is filtered more scrupulously to limit garbage entry.

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.

Download FretPetX123.dmg (Disk Image, 4.6 MB)

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."

ChordCalc Lite is a free music utility showcasing the Chord and Scale interfaces of the guitar-friendly ChordCalc. You can use ChordCalc Lite to build chords, explore chord theory in two dynamic graphical interfaces, and see how chords fit into different scales and harmonic contexts.

ChordCalc is a calculator-like utility for chords. It includes an interactive guitar fretboard and 3 other interfaces for quickly building chords and performing common chord operations like adding extensions, transposing to other keys, and harmonizing within scales.

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)