source file: mills3.txt Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:34:58 +0200 Subject: Tuners From: Carl Lumma >Before inventing something that is already here, you may want to look at >the Sanderson Accu-tuner or the Reyburn Cyber Tuner. These are tuning >specific machines, though the RCT uses a powerbook. Unlimited temperament >access, over 200 can be carried in the machine itself. Allows all manner of >partial selection, unlimited scaling curves, accuracy to .1 cent, >etc........... I found the Reyburn Cyber Tuner on the web, but I could not find the Sanderson Accu-tuner. Does anybody know where to get information on this? >There are a number of products on the market today that provide >microtonal tuning support. I have looked at the Accutone model 250, >with preprogrammed scales, and a three light strobe for $400; Korg >model MT-1200 wihch can be programmed to temperments of your choice >for $300; Peterson 5000, with 112 customer definable temperment files; >Precision Strobe Tuner PST2, with the rotating LED's that I found >useful before and programmable temperments, for $325. All of these >assume that you are tuning 12 tones to the octave, but let you alter >any of those 12 to any note. With a little fancy temperment switching, >you can tune any number of tones to the octave with little trouble. Am familiar with the Korg and Peterson, but have never seen teh Accutone or Precision Strobe Tuner models. Could anybody point me in the right direction? As far as a wish list goes, the smaller, simpler, and lighter, the better. Perhaps ideal would be a device without any scale template at all, just entry for cents and some rotating LED's. It is always nice to have reference tones to compare the visual feedback to something you can hear. In fact, it would be really cool just to have a hand-held, battery powered device that only gave reference pitches (that is, had no listening capability) at a given frequency in hertz. The Violab Pitchman is such a tuner, and it can be purchased from Zuckermann harpsichords at http://www.zuckermann.com/earlykeyboardnotes/pitchman.html/, but it is stuck to one of several preset temperaments. I have this tuner and it is really cool. I have corresponded with the guy who makes this tuner about the idea of hertz entry, and he told me to buy a peice of lab equipment from http://www.telulex.com/. I looked into this, but eventually decided that the Peterson 520 was better suited to my needs. I have this tuner and it is okay. But, when it comes down to it, strobes have got to suck. And, big heavy boxes do not make me happy. Carl SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: Denis.Atadan@mvs.udel.edu Subject: John Starrett and Tape Swap Damage Control PostedDate: 12-10-97 21:43:31 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 12-10-97 21:42:55-12-10-97 21:42:56,12-10-97 21:43:22-12-10-97 21:43:22 DeliveredDate: 12-10-97 21:43:22 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125652E.006C4ACA; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:42:50 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14335; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:43:31 +0200 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 21:43:31 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14334 Received: (qmail 13464 invoked from network); 12 Oct 1997 12:43:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 1997 12:43:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199710121939.PAA10598@copland.udel.edu> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu