Just a heads up for my fellow iPhone comrades out there:
Peterson has just put out an iPhone app version of their awesome Strobotuner, and it is only $10! I bought it a couple of days ago and IMO it rocks. Much better than the half dozen other tuners I have on my iPhone and better even than my $100 stand alone guitar tuner. I purchased the app a couple of days ago and have used it for Guitar, Mando and Flute, and I think the app is a real bargain. With regards to flute, I find the strobe tuner a great way to check up on one’s intonation while playing, far superior to the jumpy letter, arrow, and/or flashy light displays.
Amazing Slow Downer is also available for iPhone now. There is a free “light” version available for trial, which I downloaded but haven’t tried yet. The full version is, I believe, the same price as the standard PC software version. Has anyone given the full version a try?
Question: Has anyone seen an iphone app for ABC notation searches and downloads? I’d love to be able to download tune abc’s right to my iphone. Some days I wish I were a programmer…
I tested the $10 Peterson iStroboSoft iPhone app side by side with my $250 Peterson VSAM tuner and its essentially identical. The strobe displays move in sync, and in some ways the iPhone app is better since it shows the actual tuning offset, while the VSAM only has the moving strobe patterns. The app also has a noise filter where it will sample the ambient noise and then use that to help isolate the instrument being tuned.
Incredible… Best tuner for the iPhone by far. Thanks for the heads-up!
I downloaded the trial version of Amazing Slow Downer for my Mac desktop machine. Haven’t tried it on my iPhone yet. This app is great! thanks for the tip.
Add the strobotuner to your iphone, set it up next to the mac with ASD, set the tune to play at 1/3 speed and you have an awesome transcribing set-up for those times when your ear alone fails you, which is me most of the time.
Box.net also has an iphone app now, but I haven’t tried that one yet.
Did you install the tuner on your Touch? I have an iPod Touch, as well, but wasn’t aware that there was a mic on them that would allow one to use a tuner like this. I’d be pleased as punch if it does! Any more info?
Or perhaps you meant that you’d installed the Slow-Downer app?
I installed the tuner on the Touch. You need the second generation Touch, & an external microphone. I purchased the Apple earphones with remote & microphone. I was surprised by how nice the earphones are. I don’t know if another microphone setup will work with the Touch.
Cool: thanks. I have the 2G, as well, so it looks like this is an option. Maybe I can even use that Ocarina application friends have on their phones . . .
I just bought the strobe tuner today for my iPhone. Very cool! Is there anything this phone can’t do?
Next I’m going to buy the dynomometer app and see how many Gs I can pull on the skid pad in the family sedan, all the while maintaing a proper embrochure and playing an A4 in tune.
Sure you can. 415 Hz is almost exactly G# (it’s 1.26 cents flat) relative to A440. It is, in effect, a Db flute. So just tune everything down a half step. Or if you can, set the transposition down a half step, and tune everything to pitch. A difference of 1 cent is well within normal tuning anyway.
I have the full version of the Amazing Slow Downer for Mac, and it’s wonderful. You can slow it down to 20% (practically unusably slow, but the option is there!) and speed it up to 200%. Changing the pitch makes it easy to transpose a piece into D! Well worth the money, I think, assuming the iPhone version is the same.
. Lowest strobotuner frequency is A = 430 Hz.
- Thanks very much.