Tuning Meister
| Tuning Meister is a real-time graphical pitch analyzer for Windows computers. [See below for comments on using this on a Mac running Windows under Bootcamp and similar]. Use it to refine your sense of playing or singing in tune. Any scale or temperament can be the basis of study; Tuning Meister can accept any twelve-note scale. TM can also superimpose two separate scales; this allows for displaying "enharmonics" such as Eb and D# as distinctly different notes. It also permits comparing the pitch graph against several scales to see which is a better fit. Tuning Meister has a display mode specially for Indian ragas. For small ensembles, Tuning Meister can track and display several channels of input at once. A free, fully-functional 90 day trial is available. Simply download the Tuning Meister Installer to your computer and run it. Versions for other operating systems are not likely, but certainly not for several years. Running Tuning Meister on a Mac: Tuning Meister can be installed under Bootcamp, Parallels, VMWare Fusion or similar (running XP). A full introduction to the software (also installed on your local machine after downloading) includes an extensive tutorial with screen shots. You can read that tutorial online, to get an idea of how the program functions. Some videos showing the computer screen analyzing a few illustrative sound files are part of the tutorial, right after the introductory page, so you can see TM in action without installing it. More videos to come, but through the existing tutorial you can see static images of how musical input is rendered on the graph, and read about all the aspects of scale and pitch that can be manipulated by the software. Please note that the online tutorial may be more comprehensive than the version on your local drive, as I may improve comments in between program updates. Tutorial - Opening Page |