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The MetroTuner
 

 


PAGE INDEX

Follow Spot
Go Button
Drum Selectors
String Indicator
Selector Arrows
Tone Button


Palette Features

The MetroTuner Palette contains two separate devices, inlaid with a stain-resistant wood-grain finish. The top unit is a Metronome which provides a regular beat for accompaniment or practice. Below the Metronome is a device known as the Tuning Assistant.

 

The Metronome

The Metronome in FretPet acts like a very basic drum machine. It always plays in the tempo of the Active Bank, so to change the Tempo you must use the Tempo Bar at the top of the active Chord Bank window. If no Chord Bank window is open then you'll have to create a new document to gain access to a Tempo Bar.

The Metronome is fairly smart. When you start it in the middle of a song it will start on the correct beat. It can keep up if you change the Tempo during Play. You can even tell the Metronome to play in 3/4 Time. However, there are some cases where the Metronome simply won't work. Songs that have an odd number of beats or play in interesting time signatures will be out of sync with the Metronome. This doesn't mean the Metronome might not sound interesting, but it won't sound like Rock and Roll.

  • Follow Spot
    The Follow Spot is a visual indicator of the beat. It jumps in unison with the metronome tick sound, from side to side.

  • Go Button
    Start the Metronome by clicking the Go Button. The Metronome will begin to crank out a beat in the tempo of the Current Bank and the velocity of the Current Part. If you like you can Option-click the Go Button to have the Metronome play a 3/4 beat.

  • Drum Selectors
    To make things a little more interesting you can vary the sound that occurs on each beat. Click on any of the four drum images to cycle back and forth through the available sounds...

    • Kick Drum (also called a Bass Drum)
    • Tom-Tom
    • Snare Drum
    • Hi-hat Cymbal
    • Ride Cymbal
    • Crash Cymbal
    • Ah, Silence!

 

The Tuning Assistant

The Tuning Assistant isn't designed to listen to your guitar and measure the tuning for you. I leave that to other fine programs, like Guitar Tuner by Rustle Laidman. Instead, the Tuning Assistant exists to help you to tune your guitar yourself.

The Assistant contains a nice blowup view of the current tuning of the guitar. A white "bridge pin" indicates which string is selected for tuning. Once you turn on the Assistant, the selected note is played repeatedly. With the Metronome turned on the tuning tone will always play on the first beat, which is known in musical parlance as "The One."

  • String Indicator
    The String Indicator shows you which string will be played by the Tuning Assistant. You can click on any empty bridge-pin hole to select another tone to hear.

  • Selector Arrows
    Use the String Selector arrows to move the String Indicator to the next or previous string. These are convenient when you're tuning your guitar. You can just tap the mouse button to continue to the next string.

  • Tone Button
    Press the Tone Button to start the Tuning Assistant. The selected tone will play. Every time the beat comes around the tone will play again, even if the Metronome is turned off. As the tone plays, make adjustments to the tuning of the string until it sounds right.

 

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