AccessibleTuner vs Octal

Accessible Tuner is a simple multi-tuner app created by LUCA, a blind developer, who has had some difficulties finding a VoiceOver-accessible tuner app in the past herself. It will start listening for any sounds when the START button is pressed, and will show the closest note, and wheather the note is too high, too low, or in tune. Since the result area changes live, I recommend stopping the function before checking it with VoiceOver. While the Beep sound toggle is turned on, a short beep will be played when the note comes in tune. Keeping this toggle off is recommended bwhen earphones are unconnected, ecause the microphone may pick up the sound. For your information, notes falling within a 10-cent range are determined as in tune. -------- Accessible Tunerは全盲の開発者、LUCAが自らウクレレやカリンバをチューニングする際にVoiceOverで使いやすいチューナーアプリがなく困った経験を元に、乏しいSwiftの知識でなんとか形にした、視覚障害者向けのマルチ・チューナーです。 「START」ボタンを押すと聞き取りが開始され、聴取された音に最も近い音階(A~G)と、それが高いか、低いか、丁度合っているかを表示します。聞き取り中はリアルタイムで結果が変わってしまうため、落ち着いてVoiceOverに読み上げさせたい場合には、音を鳴らした後に一度「STOP」を選択して、結果表示部をご確認ください。 「ビープ音」をオンにすると、丁度になった時に短い音が鳴ります。ただし、イヤホンを使わない場合はビープ音をマイクが拾ってしまうことがあるため、通常はオフがおすすめです。 なお、本アプリでは+-10セント以内を「ちょうど」と判定します。

Octal is an instrument anyone can play. Press a button and you get a chord. Push the bead until it sounds right. Press a few more buttons and you have a song. No theory, no lessons, no wrong notes, just play. The eight buttons always fit together, and the bead under your other thumb changes their mood as you play. Making music in Octal is free. FREE: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MAKE MUSIC FUN FROM THE FIRST PRESS Open the app and a short tutorial builds your first track with you, on the real buttons. You feel every button under your thumbs, and every sound answers the way you move. A TRACK IN MINUTES Press record and play a few bars. They loop. Double-tap the bead and eight more fan out, one for each instrument. Slide to drums, a bass or a lead and play over the top. Eight instruments, each on its own loop. SING IT, SAMPLE IT, PLAY IT Record any sound with the microphone (a hum, a word, a tap on a glass) and every button plays it back in key. Or sing through your chords with the vocoder. STRINGS, BARS AND BREATH Nylon guitar, upright bass, kalimba and flute, played by models of the real instruments, beside marimba, synths, drum kits, lofi tape and textures. A CRATE FULL OF SOUNDS Open a bead and every sound is there. Touch one to hear it, drag it onto the wheel to play it. PALETTES A palette is a whole wheel of sounds that belong together. Tap one to fill your wheel, or make your own from any of Octal's beads. SHAPE ANY SOUND Tone, bite, attack, release, drive, width, echo and space. What you shape stays with the track. EVERY SCALE Major and minor, and seven more moods for the same eight buttons. NEVER LOSE AN IDEA Every take is kept. Rewind through a track's history and pick up from any point. SHARE WHAT YOU MAKE Send the mix as an audio file, or the track itself for a friend to open and play in Octal. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Closed, Octal is the whole instrument on the outer screen. Open it and you have a loop station: the buttons stay under your thumbs, and the other half becomes your track station and instrument selector. All of this is free, with four saved tracks. THE FULL VERSION: ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION For when Octal becomes part of how you make music. MAKE BEADS OF YOUR OWN The bead lab builds a sound from scratch: its color, its sound or pattern, a drum kit pad by pad, or a sample from your microphone. Anyone can play what they make in the lab; the full version keeps it in your library and your palettes. OUT TO YOUR DAW The MIDI file, and a zip with a stem for every instrument and the mix, ready to finish the song in your DAW. MIDI OUT Play other instruments and apps live from Octal, over USB or Bluetooth. AS MANY TRACKS AS YOU LIKE Keep more than four. PRIVACY Octal collects no data. The microphone is on only while you record a sample or have a vocoder on your wheel.