Greetings All,

Here is a new update, build in Cocoa :

- Import and Export Neck and Tunings ( See GuitarTools Extras on http://www.rollonbuddy.com/GuitarTool/GTDownload/GTDownload.html )
- Cocoa building
- Minor fixes...


Best and Happy New year !
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Greetings All,

I spent times to move to Cocoa. Here is a new update, with some features for Mallet Percussion players :


- Keyboard display : as a piano or a mallet percussion ( Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone,.. )
- Improve Midi support
- Instruments : Added Vibraphone, Xylophone, Marimba, Tubulars bells, Accordion
- Midi Panel : added Midi Sound button
- Pref : Mallet percussion options ( settings, C or F first note, , colors, … )
- Cocoa building
- Fixes...


Best and Happy New year !
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Tags: Mallet Percussion, Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone

New features :
- Sharps and flats notation !
- Tools window : Add a BPM detector
- Pref window : note preview


Regards,
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Greetings All,

Version 1.1 is looking forward for testers !

So, drop me a mail if you want to have a look on it.

New features :
- Sharps and flats notation !
- Circle window : Tonality Helper
- Tools window : Add a BPM detector
- Pref window : note preview


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New features :
- Support for Midi devices
- CircleWindow : Add a Tonality Helper
- Some cosmetic fixes...

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And now for Keyboard and Piano players !

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New features :
All versions :
- Preferences : Add a metronome option, to use Midi DrumKit to produce sounds if possible
- Preferences : RealNeck , add a gold frets option
- Preferences : several RealNeck settings can be saved and deleted
- MainWindow : easy switch between saved RealNeck
- Custom panel : add "found in" scales
- Practice window : last used BPM is saved
- Scales : add Harmonic Major, Augmented, Dominant 9 Pentatonic, Diminished Whole Tone ( or Altered )


Windows Version :
- Windows : If Quicktime is installed on the computer, it can be set as preferred player. This can help for reading more files


Fixes :
All versions :
- GroupBox in main window was a bit too wide
- Window background color was no more saved when quitting
- Window background color was not more applied to all windows
- Minor fixes...

Windows Version :
- Diatonic chord was not perfectly unselected
- Diatonic chord Help tag was not shown
- Custom CheckBox Help tag was not shown

Best Regards,
Buddy
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Here we are, version 1.0 is available.

Many thanks to all contributors, who help me during the tests and beta phase.

Here are the main changes from previous stage :

New features :
- Use GDI+ on Windows. Rendering is much better.

Fixes :
- Custom CheckBoxes under Windows Seven showed a small rectangle when clicked.
- The selection of a degree was not perfectly drawn.


We have got to work on version 2.0 now


Keep on Picking,
Buddy
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Hi Buddy's fellows,

Here is the RealNeck Experiment !

Some other new features too :

- Preferences : Design your Real Neck
- Main Window : Add a "space" keyboard command for playing and stop playing notes
- Add aug chord
- Custom panel will display a list of suggested chords forms when 2 or more notes are selected
- Preferences file is moved to :
- Mac : User/Library/Application Support/com.RollOnBuddy.GuitarsTools/
- XP : Documents and settings\User\Application Data\ com.RollOnBuddy.GuitarsTools\
- Vista and 7 : Documents and settings\User\Roaming\com.RollOnBuddy.GuitarsTools\
- many minor fixes and code cleaning


Not so easy to work with all theses pictures to design the neck, but I like it !

What do you think about it ?

If you ever need another shape, just drop me a mail with a .png of your shape, with transparency enabled.

And also, if you need another chord, scale, don't hesitate to tell me.


I hope you will enjoy,
All my best,
Buddy

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Greetings all,

Version 0.90 is being tested....

Will be on line soon !

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Hey Guys,

I hope this 0.81 update should be a nice one

Here are the details :

Some new features :

- English and French localization : in case you would prefer using the english version on a french system, here is what to do :
- Mac version : control click on the app, and show contents. then in the Resources folder, delete the "fr.lproj" folder
- Win version : easier You just have to delete the "fr.mo" file in the Resources folder near the exe.
BTW, I'm looking for others translations ( German, Spanish, Italian, ... ) So i you feel like a translator, drop me a mail !

- Diatonic chords can be played

- While playing, clicking on the "Play Button" will stop playing

- While playing Chords, Scales or Diatonic Chords, the notes are flashing on the neck.

- Add a custom panel, to show your own choice of inversions. This allow you to select your own choose of notes to show.

- Add relative minor in Circle WIndow

- Practice window : add some file filtering, when "Opening a file". Most common files types were added, but in case you couldn't open some files, let me know what type and I'll add it.

Fixes :

- fixes in playing chords and scales, the notes were too high an half step

- After hiding the application, Circle and Practice windows could disappear

- Fix in Circle window display

- Update : While downloading, buttons are no more enabled

- lots of fixes concerning refreshing windows

- lots of minor fixes and adjustments

I hope you will enjoy,
All my best,
Buddy

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I'm not very happy with my updates by those times...

Here is version 0.80 which fixes a bug while saving preferences.


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Here is a new update :

Version 0.77 :

- All customization were moved to the "Preference Dialog", i.e. Tunings, Neck Appearance, ..
- Window's positions are now saved and restored, even with several screens.
- fix in Diatonic chords

Version 0.76 :

- Circle Window : corrected a typo
- Circle Window : Follow tonality CheckBox
- Main Window : Maximize and minimize button
- Favorites folder : The Favorites folder is created on launch if it doesn't exist
- Favorites folder : to be more compliant with operating systems, the Favorites Folder is now created in your user folder and named "Guitar Tools Favorites" ( Mac OS : Users:userocument: , Windows : \user\My Documents\ )
- Practice Window : Add an alias or shortcut in the Favorites folder when a file is opened
- Practice Window : Loop checkbox to play file in... loop
- Practice Window : Add an "Open favorites folder" button
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Version 0.75 :

- lots of small fixes…
- change in the prefs file
- clean parts of code ( update, prefs file )
- add a Preference window ( define update at launch or not, and test for update )
- change in the Circle window ( had a poor rendering on Windows )
- re-organisation of some menus,
- add an error module to catch little nasty bugs
- improve custom tunings window
- last tuning used will saved

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Hi Guys,

It took a long time to released, but here is it : a full new version with many features :
- window is now resizable and the neck will fit the window
- you can open several windows
- neck customisation : number of frets, of strings ( from 4 to 7 ), left hand option, size and font of the notes,…
- You can add your own tunings
- Height and width of the window is saved, as well as other options
- When displaying Degrees or Orders, the notes are shown

In case you have troubles reading preferences while upgrading, you can delete the Guitar_Tools.Pref and Guitar_Tools.Pref in /home/Library/Preferences/ on Mac and in \Documents and settings\User\Application Data\ on Windows

GT070 has been succesfully tested under Leopard, SnowLeopard, XP, Vista, and Windows Seven too ! It should work correctly under Tiger too.

Hope you will enjoy !
Regards,
Buddy
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Thanks again for your constructive remarks and comments.

Version 0.61 is on his way, with small adjustments.

Version 0.61 :

- Add a customization option for the fretted note : draw as a circle or a rectangle

- Add a customization option for the neck : Wood image

- Drawing should be smoother under Windows

- Made a fix concerning relative Chord/Scale

Leave me a comment if you want me to add a chord, a scale, or whatever !

Regards, Buddy
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Here is the first public update !

I would like to thank all of you that download and try GuitarTools and send me feedback.

Very special thanks to Roddy, Neil, Eddie and RockIt for their constructive remarks and reports !

Here are the details about version 0.60 :

- The bottom line of the guitar neck is correctly draw,

- The neck is correctly updated while playing scales,

- Update process : no more useless message at the launch of application, also changes in version are presented,

- Some typos have been corrected too,

- Scales : Aeolian is now named Aeolian(Natural Minor),

- Modify the "degree order" option. It displays now the relationship of the notes.

- Add a copy menu, which copy the guitar neck to the clipboard. You can then paste the picture where you want
Hope you 'll enjoy it !



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Building the site, adding some new functionalities to GuitarTools took me much more time than I thought.

More, I had to migrate to a new version of my development environment, which was released by the mean time.

Gosh, too little compatibility, I had to rewrite plenty of code !!! I'm wondering how one could manage big development projects using this, if he has to rewrite his code every three months...

However, here we are. The first public version is on his way, the site will be publish soon.

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Building the site...

In fact, it's a long way. Even if it's quite funny to try different products, you always have to fight a new problem or limitation.

Anyway, I made my choice and I'll stick to it !

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Ok, Guys, you told me to try, there we go !

I follow your advises and I'll publish GuitarsTools.

First, I have to review it and to build a site. Let's go to work....


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