Don Taylor Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 A recent post pointed out that the pitch of a reed varies from its initial start until it stops, the poster asked for advice on when to accept a pitch as being correct. It seems to me that a tuner, or a tuning app for free reeds would be more useful if it did not simply register the instantaneous pitch being sounded but showed a time-pitch graph. Time along the x-axis and pich(frequency) on the y-axis. I have looked around for something like this on the app stores and, although there are dozens of tuning apps, I could not find one that had this sort of representation. Does anybody know of such a beast? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_holden Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Tonal Energy has an analysis mode that does that, but it's not as useful as you might think for reed tuning. Partly because the graph scale is +/-20 cents, which is quite a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Schulteis Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 On Android I have used VocalPitchMonitor and Intonia. I've found that they get me close enough when making penny whistles, but that's an instrument whose pitch varies quite a bit with how hard you blow, so the player is able to make up for (or cause) a few cents of inaccuracy. That's actually why I use those tuners - they let me play a scale or tune without looking at the tuner and subconsciously correcting, so I get a more realistic picture of how in tune the instrument itself is. But I couldn't tell you how precise the tuning is in cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harglo Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 The piano technician software / app TuneLab (which i use professionally on pianos) does, I believe, some of what you are after. You can’t capture a graph, but you have real time spectral analysis so you can watch the partials drift. It is a professional software for professionals and as such is priced like it (I believe I paid $500/$600 a handful of years ago). If you think it might fit see if you can find a piano tech who will let you play around with it first (or if your in the PNW I’d meet up). Harlan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Taylor Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 Harglo Thanks for that, but it is a bit beyond my budget for a tuner! I know I can manage with the existing apps, I am just curious to see how the fundamental changes over time. Don. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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