awesome tuning app for android
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:47 am
Hi,
For practicing purposes I was looking for a good tuning device that would work well with a tuba. I own a korg ca-30, which is reasonably good, especially for the price I paid for it, but in the low register I don't find it very good. I have a few other < €40 devices that I never use because I don't trust them enough.
I checked the Tubenet for advice but didn't find recommendations for anything easily available to me, so I decided to see what was in the android app store.
I once bought an app called gStrings, which is a fine app but suffers from the same problem as most ordinary tuning devices: below C2 it's quirky and unreliable, sometimes simply indicating the wrong pitch, or none at all.
And then I found DA tuner (I am on the beta version now which is free). I was excited and quite astonished to see that it recognizes all pitches I can play on my tuba, all the way down into the pedal register (F 0 being the lowest norw I played). It is fast as well.
I've been using it for two days now and didn't find any drawbacks except maybe for the slightly non-intuitive interface of the pitch pipe. So I decided to share my enthusiasm with you guys.
Of course, results vary depending on your type of android device. On my Alcatel OT-995, it works great.
Hope this may help some of you!
For practicing purposes I was looking for a good tuning device that would work well with a tuba. I own a korg ca-30, which is reasonably good, especially for the price I paid for it, but in the low register I don't find it very good. I have a few other < €40 devices that I never use because I don't trust them enough.
I checked the Tubenet for advice but didn't find recommendations for anything easily available to me, so I decided to see what was in the android app store.
I once bought an app called gStrings, which is a fine app but suffers from the same problem as most ordinary tuning devices: below C2 it's quirky and unreliable, sometimes simply indicating the wrong pitch, or none at all.
And then I found DA tuner (I am on the beta version now which is free). I was excited and quite astonished to see that it recognizes all pitches I can play on my tuba, all the way down into the pedal register (F 0 being the lowest norw I played). It is fast as well.
I've been using it for two days now and didn't find any drawbacks except maybe for the slightly non-intuitive interface of the pitch pipe. So I decided to share my enthusiasm with you guys.
Of course, results vary depending on your type of android device. On my Alcatel OT-995, it works great.
Hope this may help some of you!