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Product Description:
Strobe Tuner is a 12-note chromatic scale strobe tuner that utilizes sound input devices such as built-in microphone, line-in, and iSight. You can use Strobe Tuner to tune your guitar, bass, and other musical instruments.
Strobe tuners are extremely accurate compare to regular tuners with a needle or LEDs. The slightest difference between the actual pitch and the ideal pitch accumulates over time and appears as a movement on the strobe tuning meter.
Strobe tuners are extremely accurate compare to regular tuners with a needle or LEDs. The slightest difference between the actual pitch and the ideal pitch accumulates over time and appears as a movement on the strobe tuning meter.
- Tuning: 12-note chromatic scale
- Temperaments: Equal Tempered, Kellner, Kirnberger III, Meantone, Pythagorean, Vallotti, Werckmeister III, Young II, etc.
- Meters: strobe, cent, and hertz.
- Range: A0 (27.5Hz) - C8 (4186.0Hz)
- Calibration: 349.0 - 499.9Hz (0.1Hz steps)
- Accuracy: +/- 1 cent with the cent readout. +/-0.1 cent @ 440Hz with the strobe tuning meter.
- Transpose: +/-11 semitones
- Resizable main window on Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
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Great tuner 
- Version: 1.6, 1/13/2009 06:36AM PST
Washburntabu
I've been trying to find a good tuner for my Washburn guitar with the Feiten tuning system. I need a tuner with strobe and a cent display with accuracy less than a cent. Out of the tuners on this site for os 10.3.9 this is by far the best. It's very accurate and I am now able to tune my guitar to +- 1 cent. Better software would cost $100 or more. This is so fast that the cent readout changes before I can see what the number is, when I get closer to 00 cent the readout becomes more accurate and settles down. Awesome product!
best tuner I've ever had - Version: 1.6, 10/3/2008 11:12AM PST
Allen McBride
I play hammer dulcimer, one of the hardest instruments to tune this side of a piano. Hardware strobe tuners are way too expensive for me, so I've always tried to make do with fluttering needle and LED tuners. About half an hour after downloading Strobe Tuner, I had my instrument in better tune than I think it has ever been.
As far as I can recall from the last time I used a hardware strobe, this program works just as well and is easier to read. The program has an LED-style display as well, but I recommend ignoring it except to remind yourself how great it is to have a strobe tuner.
You might want to save the readme file that comes with the download; it's the main documentation, but as far as I can tell it isn't included in the application itself. Not that you'll really need it, as the application is simple and straightforward.
One disadvantage of any software tuner is that it can't be used with the unamplified clip-on mic that has helped me isolate my instrument in noisy settings when tuning before a gig. But so far this hasn't bothered me, because with the strobe tuner, I can get my dulcimer in such close tune at home that even after it settles in to the gig environment, it's still in better tune than if I'd tried to tune at the gig with my LED tuner.
I downloaded Strobe Tuner in part because of the preset temperaments... while I'm still curious to try them, I've learned that a lot of what I thought was my frustration with equal temperament has actually been my frustration with inadequate tuners.
Strobe Tuner is now the only non-free commercial software I own, and it's well worth the price.
As far as I can recall from the last time I used a hardware strobe, this program works just as well and is easier to read. The program has an LED-style display as well, but I recommend ignoring it except to remind yourself how great it is to have a strobe tuner.
You might want to save the readme file that comes with the download; it's the main documentation, but as far as I can tell it isn't included in the application itself. Not that you'll really need it, as the application is simple and straightforward.
One disadvantage of any software tuner is that it can't be used with the unamplified clip-on mic that has helped me isolate my instrument in noisy settings when tuning before a gig. But so far this hasn't bothered me, because with the strobe tuner, I can get my dulcimer in such close tune at home that even after it settles in to the gig environment, it's still in better tune than if I'd tried to tune at the gig with my LED tuner.
I downloaded Strobe Tuner in part because of the preset temperaments... while I'm still curious to try them, I've learned that a lot of what I thought was my frustration with equal temperament has actually been my frustration with inadequate tuners.
Strobe Tuner is now the only non-free commercial software I own, and it's well worth the price.
User definable tunings?? - Version: 1.6, 7/29/2008 03:04PM PST
lucytune
I am pleased to see that you have removed LucyTunings from your microtonal options, in this version, as you had the names and offset values wrong on earlier versions.
It might make more sense if you provided users with the opportunity to build their own microtonal tunings instead of trotting out the "tired, old" favorites with limited capabilities again;-)
Or you could enable the application to accept Scala files or one of the other microtuning codes.
see:
http://www.lucytune.com/midi_and_keyboard/pitch_bend.html
for details.
It might make more sense if you provided users with the opportunity to build their own microtonal tunings instead of trotting out the "tired, old" favorites with limited capabilities again;-)
Or you could enable the application to accept Scala files or one of the other microtuning codes.
see:
http://www.lucytune.com/midi_and_keyboard/pitch_bend.html
for details.
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