Re: Guitar tuning and the IIGS

[gregt@porsche.visix.com (Greg Thompson)]

>"sb" == Soenke Behrens <behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> writes:

  sb> sadasiva@utkvx.utk.edu (Krishna Madurai Sadasivam) writes:
>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! :)

  sb> Heh :) Perhaps all GS users who have to tune their guitars have what
  sb> is called "das absolute Gehoer" over here? :) (Meaning that if you play
  sb> them a note, they can tell you which one that was, and wether or not it
  sb> was slightly off, and if slightly off, by how much).

  Yeah, I've got perfect pitch, so I actually never have to do this...
(yeah, right).  You can use Toner (remember that?) to generate a pure
tone.  You, being a guitarist, should know that an A is 440hz (and
220, and 880, and 110, etc).  The other notes fall in a log_12
distribution between two A's.  ie: 440 and 880 are an octave apart, so
the rest of the notes are spread across there logarithmically.  I, of
course, always forget which buttons to hit on my calculator to get
that, but after playing around with the numbers for a few minutes, I
get the magic combination...

  Gee, too bad I don't have Harvey the Wonder Calculator nearby, or
I'd just give you the dang multiplier that you use to get each note...
Oh well.  Any math dudes out there wanna spew the magic to the net?
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