Microtuner

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A microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers) with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that differ (or not) from those of common Western equal temperament. The term also indicates a high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintage Conn brand brass and reed instruments (mostly cornets and alto saxophones). These were first introduced with their 1918 catalog and manufactured up until about 1954. Such devices were also offered with some vintage saxophones manufactured in Europe by Beaugnier, Dolnet, Hüller, Keilwerth and other famous makers in the same period.

Contents 1 See also 2 External links 2.1 Hardware microtuners 2.2 Software microtuners and other microtonal music software 2.3 Mechanical microtuners of vintage wind instruments

[edit] See also

• Computer music
• Electronic tuner
• Microtonal music
• MIDI Tuning Standard
• Musical tuning
• Scala (program)
• Tune Smithy
• Tuner
• Tuning

[edit] External links

[edit] Hardware microtuners

• FSU Dynamic Microtuning Box
• H-Pi Instruments Tuning Box TBX1

[edit] Software microtuners and other microtonal music software

• Echelles et Modes, an educational IRCAM software (Mac & PC)
• Java Microtuning Organ (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• L'il Miss' Scale Oven (Mac)
• microtuner Max/MSP object
• Scala (Windows, Linux, Mac)
• Tobybear MicroTuner VST plugin (Windows)
• Tune Smithy (Windows)

[edit] Mechanical microtuners of vintage wind instruments

• Conn Microtuner