QuickTime Musical Instruments
By default FretPet uses the built-in QuickTime Musical Instruments
synthesizer to play tones. This is more for convenience than for the
overall quality of the sound. The system-level name of this
synthesizer (as shown in programs like GarageBand and SimpleSynth)
is DLSMusicDevice. GarageBand can also use the QuickTime
synthesizer, which is called
The Instrument Picker
The
menu item presents you with the QuickTime Instrument Picker (shown
below). This dialog allows you to select from any of QuickTime's sounds,
including many "GS" sounds beyond the range of the GM
standard. You can use any of these sounds in FretPet, but only the GM
sounds are guaranteed to be compatible with other synthesizers.
THE INSTRUMENT PICKER
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In the Instrument Settings dialog you can click on the keyboard to
hear the sound you've chosen. You can use the following modifier keys
for a variety of effects:
- ⇧ Sustain (pedal)
- ⌃ Bend (with the mouse)
- ⌥ Louder
- ⌘ Louder
- ⌥⌘ Loudest
Beyond QuickTime™ Sound
Synthesizers are pretty inexpensive nowadays and most of them have
MIDI support.
LIST OF GM SOUNDS
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