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Pocket GuitarRef 2007 by PDA Initiative | support Availability : Worldwide
Available For : Pocket PC, v4.0.5 | $24.95 
Summary : Your ultimate, comprehensive guitar reference, complete with sound!
Description : Pocket GuitarRef 2007 provides a comprehensive reference for chords, scales and modes. It also provides the ability to add and organize your favorite chords, scales and modes. There's even a chord discovery view, in which you can tap on the fretboard for different notes and it will discover and display the chord name.
In addition to these features, which also exist in the original Pocket GuitarRef, this version has sound pack support (including effects), progression composition ability, pick pattern management, a context-sensitive help system, native Window Mobile 5 support, support for square, landscape and VGA screens and much more!
Key features
Tuning
Includes the most common tunings for guitar. They are:
Standard E
Open E
E Minor
Standard Eb
Open A
Standard D
Open D
Standard Db
Open G
Standard C
G6th
Standard B
G Wahine
Drop D
G Major
Double Drop D
Open C
D6th
C6th
D6/9
C6th Mauna Loa
D Suspended
Cmaj7/9
Drop Db
Cmaj7 (Gabby)
C6/9 (Crafty)
Cyril C
Tunings can be set for left and right handed players, so that the strings and chords will look the same as on your guitar.
Six useful operational views
Chord Discovery
A free-form view in which you can click on the fretboard to form your own chords. After each click, the program will try to determine what chord you have formed and displays it in the box at the bottom of the screen. You can set the discovery to look up the chords in the static database or have an algorithm used to print the discoveries.
Chord Plotter
Displays chords according to the selection in each of the note, type and variation fields. There are 36 chord types, so for common chords, there are 2,592, while dynamically generated chords show up to 21,600 chords!Display chords however you like. You can highlight the open and muted strings, show an icon or both. You can even have a note highlight when it plays! Pocket GuitarRef 2007 is completely customizable according to your preferences.
Pick Pattern Record
This view allows you to tap each string that you want as part of your pick pattern and save it for later use via the Pick Pattern Manager.
Chord Progression
This view allows you to have your Progressions play out on the fretboard.
Scales
Displays scales according to the selection in the note and type fields.
- Option to show for max finger span or on entire fretboard
- Option to scroll screen to scale to ensure its visibility
- Option to exclude open strings from scale display
Included scales:
Leading Whole Tone
Major
Major Arpeggio
Major Bebop
Major Diatonic
Major Pentatonic
Melodic Minor
Minor Arpeggio
Minor Diatonic
Minor Pentatonic
Mixo-Blues
Mohammedan
Mongolian
Natural Minor
Neapolitan Major
Neapolitan Minor
Oriental
Overtone
Pelog
Pelog2
Persian
Spanish
Whole Tone
and many more!
Modes
Displays modes according to the selection in the note and type fields.
- Option to show for max finger span or on entire fretboard
- Option to scroll screen to scale to ensure its visibility
- Option to exclude open strings from scale display
Included modes:
Aeolian
Dorian b2
Dorian
Ionian Augmented
Ionian
Locrian #2
Locrian
Lydian Augmented
Lydian b7
Lydian Dominant
Lydian Minor
Lydian
Major Locrian
Major Phrygian
Mixolydian b6
Mixolydian
Phrygian Dominant
Phrygian
Super Locrian
Sounds
- Strumming of chords right on the screen in Plotter and Discovery modes.
- Unlimited extensibility from free sound packs.
- Play button that plays strings in a picking pattern (or simple
strum) that you define with loop ability.
- Unlimited pick pattern definition ability.
- Scales have 4 patterns (ascending, descending, ascending then descending, descending then ascending) with looping ability.
- Separate visible BPM (beats per minute) for chords and scales/modes. Can test BPM within options to hear what it sounds like.
Sound Effects
In addition to sound, you can now add sound effects as your sound packs play!
Progressions
Ever have a chord progression that you want to work on, but don't have the time, or it's just inconvenient? Pocket GuitarRef 2007 allows you to play with chord progressions on the go!
Progression Manager
The Progression Manager holds all over your progressions for easy viewing and access to editing.
Progression Editor
The Progression Editor allows easy editing and reordering of patterns. All patterns and their relevant information are displayed clearly so you can get on with the important business of creating the next big hit! Compatibility:
Pocket PC Windows Mobile 6.0
Pocket PC Windows Mobile 5.0
Pocket PC VGA resolution (fullscreen 640x480)
Pocket PC Square VGA resolution (480x480)
Pocket PC Square QVGA resolution (240x240)
Pocket PC QVGA resolution (320x240)
Pocket PC QVGA resolution (240x320)
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