It's also not something that you can leave clipped on for tuning during a set for obvious reasons! It also doesn't come with the Peterson 'sweetened tunings' option but the jury is still out for me on those, but it's also incapable of having the tuning adjusted like on the Peterson which is a handy feature for when you want to be in tune with another instrument that is tough to re-tune (like a piano) - with this you can only be in tune with the App. Sure there are some downsides to using an app - it relies on quiet as it is using the microphone not vibration so perhaps only really suited to home or studio use. The Peterson costs big bucks, but this app does the same basic thing just as well. Checked the tuning with the Peterson and. I then purposefully put the Martin out of tune and re-tuned with the app. I then checked the settings with the app. So how does it stack up? Well I spent some time getting my Martin uke in tune with the Peterson. Just hit a string and use the smaller strobes at the bottom to to find which note you are closest too and then when you are near the note you need, use the main red screen and the plus or minus percentage in the top left under the note to fine tune. But that is all irrelevant really as on the main screen are all of the notes you need to tune a ukulele whether in standard C tuning, or indeed any tuning. In this app, there is no dedicated ukulele setting, but I just left it on the Key of C option (though there are others for other tunings). It's fiddly (as is the Peterson) but this is the stage of getting that 1/10th of a percent accuracy. It tricks the brain in to seeing a frozen image at certain speeds in a real strobe wheel - in the app it's simulated but works the same way - allowing for extremely accurate tuning. Some of my older readers may recall this strobe pattern being used on the edge of record deck platters to adjust speed. To use a strobe tuner you adjust your tuning until the strobe pattern for the note you are looking for slows to a complete stop. The app uses the devices microphone input to register, and before you hit a note you will see that all of the wheels are spinning wildly in a blurry fashion (that I can't show on a photograph for obvious reasons) Top left shows the note that is being registered, top right in red is a large strobe wheel, and at the bottom 12 mini strobe wheels for each of the musical notes. On opening the app you are presented with a simple looking screen.
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