This unique, hybrid instrument uses BOTH the midi and audio streams of a MIDI String Instrument to unleash an elegantly simple, yet powerful tool for exploring new frontiers in music. Slide the virtual frets around! The FretMorpher pitch-shifts the notes as though the frets on your instrument have moved while retaining the subtle nuances of the strings. Curious about EDO tunings? Non-EDO tunings? Staggered tunings? Bi-directional tunings? The FretMorpher does them effortlessly.
Tune the strings any way you want them and save the tunings. Or link a string’s tuning to a specific fret on the next lower string (like 5th fret -mostly- on the guitar) so the instrument stays in tune “relative to itself”. After all, it seems absurd to have frets that are so free and then insist that the strings be 5 standard semitones apart exactly!
Finally, the FretMorpher can operate “Bi-directionally” with both ends as a sound bridge. The use of two sound bridges has been a curiosity for many experimental musicians but also a frustration due to the complexity of reverse-overlaid logarithms associated with an ascending scale from each end. But there ARE possibilities, and the FretMorpher can easily explore them! There’s even an option to “subtract out” the part of the string that would be between the two frets (or leave the division on one fret).
The FretMorpher makes alternate fretboards, alternate tunings, and real-time experimentation easy AND -because it uses the Real Audio from the real string, it preserves the nuances of the instrument and the musician!
