Pure Tuner – Temperaments

Almost every tuner measures against equal temperament. If you tune a harpsichord to Werckmeister, play meantone in a consort, sing pure thirds in a choir or own a 19-tone guitar, that is of little use. Pure Tuner measures against the tuning you actually play in. Free: • A display in the style of an analogue meter: long, thin needle, one tick per cent, a green zone of ±3 cents — or a strobe that shows a tenth of a cent, also on the whole screen • Five ranges, from ±200 to ±15 cents, and a lamp that lights when the note is in tune • The whole tuner on one screen, upright or on its side; the orientation can be fixed • Instruments with their open strings: renaissance lute, vihuela, theorbo, baroque guitar, viols, violin family, guitar in six tunings, bass, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, bouzouki, charango, oud, bağlama, sitar, pipa, erhu, nyckelharpa and more. The tuner finds the string you play and ticks each course once it is in tune • Only this note: switch off the automatic recognition and choose the note yourself, a step or an octave at a time. The tuner then listens for that note alone, for a quiet instrument or a loud room • Transposing instruments: in B flat, A, F, E flat or any key, the tuner shows the written note • Reference pitch anywhere from 380 to 480 Hz, typed to a hundredth (446.67). 392, 415, 430, 440, 442 and 466 Hz can be selected directly • Detects low notes in the correct octave, from a five-string bass to a piccolo • With plucked notes, the reading stays for a moment after the note has died away One-time purchase "Every Tuning": • Werckmeister III, Kirnberger II and III, Vallotti, Young II, Kellner, Bach/Lehman, Galilei's lute frets, and 64 more historical temperaments from Boulliau (1373) to Wendell (2003), sorted by family and year • Quarter-, sixth- and third-comma meantone, Pythagorean, just intonation in any key • Equal divisions of 17, 19, 22, 24, 31 and 53 tones, 22 shruti, Bohlen–Pierce • A workshop for your own tunings: enter cents or frequency ratios, starting from any existing tuning • Import and export of Scala files (.scl) • A drone on the key note, with a pure fifth if you like, for tuning by ear When you change the tuning, the key note stays where it is. Only the other notes move. An instrument's open strings are measured in the tuning you chose: a lute in meantone has them in meantone. Pitch detection runs on your device, nothing is recorded or transmitted. No account, no ads, no subscription.