Microtuner
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.
See also
- Computer music
- Electronic tuner
- Microtonal music
- MIDI Tuning Standard
- Musical tuning
- Scala (program)
- Tune Smithy
- Tuner (disambiguation)
- Tuning (disambiguation)
External links
Hardware microtuners
Software microtuners and other microtonal music software
- alt-tuner midi plug-in (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- The World Music Menu by Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Echelles et Modes, an educational IRCAM software (Mac & PC)
- L'il Miss' Scale Oven (Mac)
- microtuner Max/MSP object
- Scala (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- Tobybear MicroTuner VST plugin (Windows)
- Tune Smithy (Windows)
- Mutabor (Windows, Linux, Mac, Atari) started in the 1980s as scientific project at TH Darmstadt