Renegade Minds\' Guitar & Drum Trainer (GDT), a handy piece of software for musicians, has won the Best Vertical Market Program or Utility Award at the Shareware Industry Awards Banquet.
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GDT is a specialized program to help musicians of all levels learn new songs quickly and easily. It allows musicians to slow down music, pitch shift songs to the tunings of their instruments, loop riffs and musical passages, and remove vocals or instruments from songs. Despite its namesake, the software works with any instrument, and not only guitars and drums.
Nominated for the awards in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, Guitar & Drum Trainer won in 2005 and 2006, and again this year in the Best Vertical Market Program or Utility Award category.
The software includes tools and features specifically designed for musicians. Rather than a standard ISO equalizer, GDT centers its 62 equalizer bands on musical notes, and instead of a regular slider for seeking through music, it includes a full and a zoomed waveform display.
New features Major new features in version 4 of the software include vocal and instrument removal tools as well as the ability to save slowed down and pitch shifted songs as FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files or MP3s with an additional LAME MP3 encoder download. Other new additions include cd playback, an improved 62-band stereo equalizer and beat detection.
GDT has a free trial for musicians to download and evaluate before they decide to purchase and is available for $ 49.95.
Renegade Minds\' Guitar & Drum Trainer (GDT), a handy piece of software for musicians, has won the Best Vertical Market Program or Utility Award at the Shareware Industry Awards Banquet.
