Guitar Shed Normally: $18.00 ZOT Price: $12.50

The Ultimate Guitar Software If you play guitar, own a Mac, and love to jam – Guitar Shed is a dream come true. Every guitar tool you need… 2 Tuners: A tonal tuner with customizable alternative tunings (Including 35 presets), and a chromatic tuner that listens through your computer’s microphone. Song Slow-Downer: Easily slow down any song without changing its pitch; supports Audio CDs, MP3, AAC, and many other audio formats. This is an essential tool for trying to learn those complicated songs and solos. Variable speed control (Of course you don’t have to slow it down), treble/bass adjustments, and an easy-to-use looping feature that lets you choose a specific part of a song to repeat. Chord Library: Over 400 chords, with audio samples (Choose from 10 instruments). Even supports left-handed players! Tablature Organizer: Store, search, and edit all of your guitar tablature in one place. Easily find tab for your favorite artists using the integrated tab-search; even find the guitar tablature for the currently playing song in iTunes. Other features include auto-scrolling (Handy for longer tabs so that you don’t have to scroll by hand), and custom viewing size (Helpful if you sit more than a few feet away from your screen). Metronome: Love it or hate it, a metronome is an excellent way to improve your timing skills. Guitar Shed’s metronome offers 7 instrument sounds, tempo adjustment from 40-180 BPM, and even odd time signature support (Like 3/4, 7/8, and 12/8). Try that with your old hardware metronome! Jam Machine: When it’s time to just jam, Guitar Shed is your personal backup band. Choose from various styles, including Funk, Heavy, Rock, Ethnic, Studio, Lounge, and more. For the ultimate ego-boost, turn on the virtual crowd – close your eyes, and imagine playing in front of thousands of adoring fans. Much More: An integrated Gig & Web manager to keep track of your shows and websites, and so much more. Guitar Shed is the ultimate software toolbox for musicians of all types. Buzz & Reviews: Used by world-class musicians around the world including SEAL, Brent Gibson, and many others. 4.5 / 5 stars from MacUser Magazine "Guitar Shed comes highly recommended for Mac-based guitarists – beginners and experts alike." – MacUser Magazine MacFormat Choice, 5 / 5 stars "Astoundit’s versatile application remains the premier utility for Mac-owning guitarists." – MacFormat Magazine, January 2007 Included on the iLife Answers Power Pack CD (From the makers of Mac|Life Magazine) Was also included on the Macworld Plus iPod User magazine bonus CD… System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later Universal Application (Works with Intel and PowerPC Macs) For more information and to download a free demo, visit the Astoundit Software website at www.astoundit.com.

7 Responses to “Guitar Shed”

1. DIMEBAG2 Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 4:52 am

   This is a great app I use it every day, although I paid full price… It was worth every penny. I love the scheduling and slow downer features. Check my band out at http://www.dirtbagmusic.com/SwamPStomP

2. A Zot User Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 4:58 am

   I’m very interested in this app, but seeing as the version number is 2.9.9.5 – what will the upgrade policy/price to 3.0 be. Maybe I should just wait for 3.0.

3. john Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 5:20 am

   Apenkopfen

4. Hmmm Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 5:49 am

   Will the license work for both the Mac and Windows versions? If so I’m a taker. (Please chime in if you know.) Thanks.

5. Steve Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 6:10 am

   Can someone with experience using both compare this package’s “Song Slow-Downer” with the program “Amazing Slow Downer X”? I’d love to pick this up if the feature sets and quality are comparable.

6. Astoundit Software Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 7:55 am

   Hi everyone,

   Thanks for all of your interest in this Zot, we’re the developer of Guitar Shed (Astoundit Software) and just wanted to answer a few of the questions above. For those that have ordered – thank you, we’ll be sending out the serial numbers within the next few hours.

   1) For those concerned, we do have version 3.0 in development, but no release date has been set. We are still in the active development phase, and have not even begun testing – so it should be a good 5+ months (at the soonest) before it is released. While I can’t mention *too* many specifics, the retail price of Guitar Shed 3 will also be raised somewhat; but there will be a hefty upgrade discount offered to all registered Guitar Shed 2.x users – including all MacZot buyers.

   2) Yep, the serial numbers work with both the Macintosh and Windows versions of Guitar Shed. Although, the Windows version is slightly behind the Mac version in features (namely the Chromatic Tuner) – we love Macs :)

   3) We think the Song Slow-Downer feature in Guitar Shed is pretty great. It uses many highly optimized algorithms to keep the pitch of the song exactly the same, while slowing the playback speed at up to 98% (And anywhere in-between). This includes playback support for Audio CDs (directly from your CD/DVD-ROM drive, no conversion needed), MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, and many others – All in *real-time* without needing to render or save them first. It will even grab the audio track from a QuickTime movie; and now also supports protected songs that you’ve purchased from the iTunes Music Store.

   You can listen to a quick audio demo on our site that shows how this works at:
   http://www.astoundit.com/products/guitarshed/featuresummary/songslowdowner/index.html

   For this demo, we purposely chose a mishmash of music genres so that you can get a feel for how the Guitar Shed
   song slow-downer works with a variety of music styles. Most of the sample guitar riffs use fairly fast and complex fingerings, with loud background instruments to mimic challenging real-world situations that you may need to use it in. When slowing down these arrangements, Guitar Shed clearly plays back pitch-correct audio, slowed down to whatever speed you need.

   Thanks again for your interest in Guitar Shed!
   - Lauren Hutchins

7. Peter Says:
   September 17th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

   ZOTted in no time! What a perfect app, instead of sitting in front of iTunes pausing and rewinding I can now set up loops and slow things down if need be, etc. Chromatic tuner is nice, especially since it can be customized – I frequently use a tuning that’s not one of the 35 presets.

   Awesome.