Re: Guitar tuning and the IIGS

[wsgentry@ne3005.reston.ingr.com (Scott Gentry)]

CRAFJAY@minna.acc.iit.edu (Jay Craft) writes:

>In <2db2g2$9jb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>> sadasiva@utkvx.utk.edu (Krishna Madurai Sadasivam) writes:
>> 
>> >Here's something I would like to see for the Apple IIGS:
>> 
>> >A guitar tuner software that plays the proper notes so's that I can tune
>> >my electric and acoustic....What with the IIGS's awesome sound capabilities and
>> >all, I'm surprised this type of program hasn't already been created! :)
>> 
>>   That GS Phone Toner program works great for this. There is an option
>> to have it play arbitrary tones (you specify the frequency). I've used
>> this a lot to tune my guitar.

>Jawaid, you mean you do something besides program the GS? :)

>The DigitalSessions software by Econ Technologies also has an
>option where you can input a frequency to be output...  I guess
>you could save the necessary tones to disk as sound files and
>play them whenever you need a quick "tune" (being sure they're
>played back correctly by whatever program).

>Come to think of it, the software that came with Applied's Phasor
>card could also generate various tones (though you couldn't 
>control frequency down to the hertz).  I plugged it into one of
>my school's GSes (one of those 512k, 1 3.5, "highschool specials
>that are just used as fast //es) and to an oscilloscope for
>physics class...

Actually, I wouldn't trust the speed of the waveform generated with
a IIGS sound card unless I checked it as you did for the Phasor.  I know
for a fact that the software that comes with Audio Animator doesn't play
sounds recorded at the highest speed at the proper frequency.  How do
I know this?  Simple.  I bought the card so I could loop guitar riffs
until I learned them (I play by ear) and found that playback is much
faster at the higher speed setting.  This makes it impossible to tune
at the proper pitch (as recorded originally) and riff along with the
music.  Sure, I could have tuned up, but that puts more stress on the
neck of the axe.  I never bothered with the idea after finding this out
as playing at slower speeds with the loss of fidelity really got to me.  

I was hoping for the Pro version of ECON card but that dream went up
in a heap, too.


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