custom tunings

Apparently, lots of guitarists are into tunings besides Standard, Open C, and Open G. For those of you who really need to re-tune, FretPet gives you the ability to add custom tunings to the Guitar Tuning menu that appears in the Guitar menu and the guitar palette's contextual menu.

Custom Tuning Menu

Custom Tunings are added to the bottom of the Guitar Tuning submenu. (Or ⌃-click the tuning label in the Guitar Palette.) Since this menu starts out empty, you will want to select Edit Custom Tunings… to open the Customize Tunings dialog.

Dialog Features

Tuning Popup

This popup menu mirrors the Custom Tunings menu. Use this popup to select the tuning you wish to modify.

Tone Selectors

Use the six selectors to choose the tones for the open strings. The low strings are on the left. You will hear the tones played as you select them, in case you want to compare them to your guitar.

New

Click this button to add a new tuning.

Rename

Click to rename the selected custom tuning.

Delete

Click to delete the selected tuning.

Strum

Click to hear the tuning strummed.

Custom Tunings In FretPet Files

When you save a composition from FretPet its tuning is saved with the file. That way if another person opens up your composition they can hear it just the way you intended.