Re: [LAU] [Bulk] gxtuner trouble and alternatives

On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 12:16 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Any alternatives you can recommend?

Recommendations are hard to do ;). I love the TU-12H temperature, I love
atonal music, based on the temperature similar or equal to this tuner's
temperature. I dislike to tune an instrument without a tuner, it's hard
to do and takes much time. Some instruments can't be tuned by tuners,
using a tuner is impossible to tune e.g. a (grand) piano ... you need to
mute strings during tuning ... "hell". When I was a guitarist some years
ago, tuning a guitar wasn't pleasant ;). Gxtuner seemingly isn't made to
tune the high frequency instruments. To find a tuner that works is hard
to do. Tune the instrument by hearing, assumed you don't want to sync
synth. When using natural instruments and synthetic instruments, then
the tuning is one of the important parts of mixing the composition ...
only trust your hearing and spend much time to fit the temperatures of
one instrument to another. It's painful, hard to do, the opposite of
fun :D.

I hate tuning instruments, I'm not good in doing this, but people always
are surprised that the MIDI gear does fit that good to the tuning of the
natural instruments of my recordings. Amen. In the early days I tuned
guitars by standard tuning (Guitar at 440 Hz only) using a Korg GT-6J (I
still own it and it still should work), later until today I'm using the
Boss TU-12H for all kinds of instruments with the limited pitch range
from A = 440 to 445.

There's no perfect tuning, but a temperature that fit close to the
feeling and even if you find a tuner that fits to your feeling regarding
the temperature, it might not be able to provide the wanted tuning < or
> 440 Hz.

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Received on Mon Aug 25 16:15:05 2014