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About unstrung Dialog Box

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Guitar Samples Dialog Box

Plays real recorded notes ascending in pitch, using the samples bundled with unstrung. From E2 upward the notes are a green Gretsch guitar. From B0 to D#2 they are a bass guitar, because the guitar samples stop at E2, a guitar's own lowest note.

Each note was recorded at multiple velocity layers — how hard the string was picked (soft, medium, or loud), which genuinely sound different from each other, not just quieter or louder — and several round robins: repeat takes of the same note and velocity, so a repeated note doesn't sound identical every time it's played.

The guitar samples are from the Black And Green Guitars sample pack by Karoryfer Lecolds. The notes from B0 to D#2 are from Black And Blue Basses, by the same creator.

There is a slight change in timbre between D#2 and E2, where the recordings switch from the bass to the guitar. Each pitch is covered by one instrument only. Carrying both instruments across the overlapping range would mean duplicate notes in a package that is already large, and would require unstrung to decide which instrument a track is before it could play the track at all.

This sets how often a new note starts. Each note keeps ringing for about three times that long and fades out underneath the note that follows it, the way a plucked string carries on sounding rather than stopping the moment the next note is played.

Chord Practice Dialog Box

Open Saved Progression Dialog Box

Editing Chord Progression Dialog Box

Edit Progression Text

Measures

Keyboard Commands for the Measures List

How the Chord Field Works

The field starts empty. With it empty, the Down arrow lists the chords the key is built from, each with its scale degree. Typing searches every chord in the chord library instead. A chord outside the key is marked as such but can still be chosen. Enter takes the chord and goes back to the measure in the list. Leaving the field empty keeps the chord the measure has. Changing the key does not change the chords already chosen.

Unsaved Changes Dialog Box

Frets to Chord Dialog Box

Set what each string is doing and unstrung works backwards to the chord name. The result appears under the Identified Chord heading below and updates as you change each string.

Identified Chord

Settings Dialog Box

Chord Voices

Relative to the guitar.

About Spoken Chord Volume

This is how loud a spoken chord name is against the guitar, not how loud unstrung is overall. Below a hundred the name sits under the playing rather than over it, which is usually what you want while playing along.

Saved Progressions

About the Progressions Folder

Saved progressions are ordinary files in this folder, so they can be copied, backed up or shared like any other file. Sub-folders made in the Save dialog, or in your file manager, appear as folders in Open Saved Progression. Changing the folder does not move anything already saved.

Invalid Directory Dialog Box