Fretwork vs 4Comp

Fretwork is a guitar reference that derives everything from music theory — so it isn't limited to the tunings and instruments someone thought to put in a table. Most chord and scale apps ship a fixed database of shapes: standard tuning, a handful of others, six strings, and that's the edge of the map. Fretwork has no database. Every chord shape, scale position, and voicing is worked out on the spot from the notes themselves. Change the tuning, add or drop a string, hand it an instrument it's never seen — and it just keeps working. What's inside: • Chords — every chord type from triads to altered 13ths, with real playable voicings ranked by how they actually sit under your hand. • Scales — major, minor, the modes, harmonic and melodic minor, jazz, altered, symmetric, and world scales, across the whole neck, with the chords and progressions inside each. • CAGED — the five shapes laid out along one neck, color-coded and connected, so you can finally see how they link end to end. • Circle of Fifths — every key, its diatonic chords, and how they pull toward home. • Tab reading — a short, interactive lesson, with every example playable. • Tuner — listens through your microphone and tunes to any tuning, including custom ones. All processing happens on your device. • Metronome — adjustable tempo, beats, subdivisions, eight click sounds, tap tempo, and volume. Any tuning. Any string count. Nothing looked up. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing you do ever leaves your device.

Four analog-style compressors in one AUv3 plugin: FET, VCA, Optical and Vari-Mu. Each is its own DSP engine with its own sound, and the whole interface — face, knobs, meters — changes to match the one you pick. New in 1.1: tap ? for a quick start and a guide to each model, and watch the live transfer curve on VCA. FET Fast gain reduction from a feedback detector, with an all-buttons mode. Hi-hats, drum buses, spiky guitars. Ice-blue face. VCA Bus glue with program-dependent AUTO release. Tames transients and spikes without grabbing. Crimson face. Optical Smooth, level-dependent release from a modelled photocell — the cell's light memory. Vocals, brass, strings. Brushed-steel face, ivory meter. Vari-Mu A ratio that rises with level, plus harmonic colour that thickens thin tracks. Mix bus and mastering. Brass face. Four separate DSP paths Each model is its own compressor engine rather than a preset over one circuit: feedback FET, two-stage VCA, photocell release, rising-ratio tube. Switch faceplates mid-session and the plugin animates to the new model's look. Complement it Stereo link (Linked or Dual Mono), sidechain high-pass, dry/wet mix, input/output and auto make-up gain, a gain-reduction meter styled for each model and 17 presets. Real-time-safe DSP, 0-sample latency by default. Works in GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis, Loopy Pro and other AUv3 hosts on iPhone and iPad.