The Current Chord
The fundamental unit in FretPet is the chord, and at all times
you are primarily working with the Current Chord. Even when
no document is open there is always a Current Chord that you can
edit and play. Most visual elements in the FretPet interface
reveal some aspect of this Current Chord.
FretPet Palettes
Palettes can be shown and hidden from the menu or press the Tab key to toggle the
visibility of all palettes.
- Toolbar
- Contains buttons for commonly-used functions.
- Chord Palette
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Displays the tones and all potential names for the Current
Chord. Allows the selection of a new chord name from a list of
options.
- Scale Palette
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Displays all the tones in every key for the selected scale or
mode. Allows the addition of tones and triads to the Current
Chord.
- Guitar Palette
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Displays the tones of the Current Chord as dots on the guitar
fretboard. Allows the addition of tones and triads to the
Current Chord.
- Keyboard Palette
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Displays the tones of the Current Chord as dots on the piano.
Allows the addition of tones and triads to the Current Chord.
- The Circle Palette
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Displays the tones of the Current Chord as wedges in a circle.
Allows the addition of tones to the Current Chord.
- Diagram Palette
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Displays a traditional chord diagram of the kind you might see
in a book of popular music.
- Info Palette
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Displays details about the tones selected in Scale and Guitar
Palettes.
- Channels Palette
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Displays instrument, MIDI channel, velocity, sustain, and filter
settings for all four parts.
The Document Window
The Document Window is a place to store
chords and edit picking patterns. When you want to compose chord
progressions and picking patterns you add chords to a document. The
document window provides an easy-to-use four voice sequencer and a
set of filters for modifying entire groups of chords. Every chord in
the document has an embedded variable-length interactive sequencer.
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