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Posted: **12 Dec 2004 11:42 am**

Please if you would give me some feed back on this software. It searches for chords and chord inversions with or without octaves applied. I will be offering this software for sale soon. Please view it at http://www.dapperdanmusic.com there is a demo movie of the software. I would like to know what you think of the tool and what you consider is a fair market price.
Thank you,
Sprig

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Posted: **12 Dec 2004 11:56 am**

hi,

i didn't see it available for windows XP ?

any way looks good and easy to use

cor

Posted: **12 Dec 2004 12:35 pm**

I wasn't able to open the page, maybe it's down or too busy?

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Howard, 'Les Paul Recording, Zum S12U, Vegas 400, Boss ME-5, Boss DM-3
http://www.Charmedmusic.com

Posted: **12 Dec 2004 12:50 pm**

hi howard the link works well i just try it out seconds ago

cor

Posted: **12 Dec 2004 3:16 pm**

I saw it, it seems interesting.

But 2 or 3 comments.

Not enough knees.
not enough pedals
and not enough strings all

C6 needs 5 pedals...

All your Uni players are excluded.
Many have 5-7 pedals.

The people most likely to be experimenting have extra levers and pedals beyond standard.

12 strings
8 levers
8 pedals minmum.
but a safe limit of 10+10 possibles, would be good

David Wright or Johnny Cox could learn nothing about their global changes, as examples
because they can't include everything.
[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 12 December 2004 at 03:21 PM.]

Posted: **12 Dec 2004 7:38 pm**

Windows.NET Framework 1.1 supports Windows XP this should already be installed on your system. I will add a test page soon so you will be able to see if you have it installed on your computer. http://www.dapperdanmusic.com/Requirements.html This software was developed for my personal use to locate all the different chords and their inversions. I play a SD10 with 4 X 5 so there was no need for the extra’s. The set up page can be changed on the fly allowing for playing around with extra pedals and levers. It is possible however that you could work in string or pedal groups as the pedals and levers can be assigned to any string you like. If there is a big need for all the pedals and 12 strings then a new program would have to be written later with graphics. Thank you for the feed back and time guys, it is appreciated.
Sprig

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Posted: **12 Dec 2004 9:04 pm**

Hi Spriggie. Are you planning on selling this software, or giving it away as freeware?

Posted: **12 Dec 2004 9:24 pm**

You will definitely want to dock the string numbers on the left, and possibly add another column on the right, as well. I know I have trouble following rows, and I imagine there are others, as well, and keeping the string numbers handy would help.

Since you asked, I would say $25 would be a fair price for this kind of shareware, with a reasonable upgrade price for future versions.

Thank you for all your hard work,

Les

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Strat,Tele
Dekley S-10

Posted: **12 Dec 2004 10:37 pm**

This looks like the start of a great program!
I would pay the $60 you ask if these things are included:

1-Audible notes, probably MIDI. You can hear your test-setups. Maybe it can play/import MIDI files, so you can create your own test-midis in another program.
2-Keyboard interaction; e.g. the pedals could be keys 1-8; keys for knees; keys for notes; and speed settings/presets for pedal/knee glissandos. Bar glissandos may not be neccessary.
3-Scale/melody with built-in intelligence: e.g. suggested pockets with different presets, not random seeds. These pockets could come from various existing instruction materials. At the moment you can only see "horizontal" and "vertical" scales or scales scattered all over the fretboard.
4-No beta versions; I am still beta-testing Windows

5-Include Les's and David's suggestions.
6-Variable skins/layouts?
7-Bigger interface allowing you to see a "previous" or "different" mini-copedent at the same time.
8-Re-assignable pedal/knee layouts. You can see your layout in one glance, rather than having to work out where L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 etc is
9-I don't understand the TABLATURE function (yet)
10-Check out the other PSG software available, maybe good features could be combined, with the creator's consent, of course.

Thanks for the great work!

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Peter den Hartogh
1970 Emmons D10 P/P; 1977 Sho-Bud D10 ProIII Custom;
1975 Fender Artist S10; Remington U12; 1947 Gibson BR4;
Internationally Accredited 3D Animation Academy

Posted: **13 Dec 2004 6:43 am**

I'm generally not one to be cheap, but $60 seems way out of line for nothing but a couple of Excel spreadsheets.

That's as much as most popular computer games cost, and they took months and cost millions to develop.

$10-$15 seems more reasonable to me.

Posted: **13 Dec 2004 8:10 pm**

These are all great ideas, sure glad I ask for your feed back. Unfortunately most will have to be included in a new project as this one is full up on the screen display, not much room left on the screen. I set this up for the E9th 10 string 4 X 5 so it has to stay like that for this time around.
Thank you,
Sprig

Posted: **14 Dec 2004 6:47 am**

Donny, you're absolutely right (as usual), but I think if Spriggie can improve the functionality of the program to the point where you can test new copedent settings before you commit to the real thing, it will be well worth a slightly higher price.

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Peter den Hartogh
1970 Emmons D10 P/P; 1977 Sho-Bud D10 ProIII Custom;
1975 Fender Artist S10; Remington U12; 1947 Gibson BR4;
Internationally Accredited 3D Animation Academy

[This message was edited by Peter on 14 December 2004 at 01:48 PM.]

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