Rick, Sorry, Lissajous 3D can't do this.

The thing is - it shows you the theoretical, or predicted Lissajous patterns. It's not like a conventional oscilloscope which uses the sounds themselves to generate the patterns.

What you can do is to play just intonation chords in Tune Smithy, and as you play the chords, the Lissajous 3D images will change to show the patterns associated with those chords. So Tune Smithy calculates the exact midi notes and pitch bends and sends those via Midi to play the notes, and at the same time sends the chord intervals to Lissajous 3D so that it can display the correct  pattern for the chord.

Now, you can still use Tune Smithy, even as it is now, to analyse a recording of a chord played for a few seconds. You could use that analysis to find the frequencies. You could then play those frequencies in FTS and show the result in Lissajous 3D as a Lissajous pattern.

So that's kind of promising - but to be useful for tuning, you want an instantaneous or almost instantaneous response as you adjust the tuning. I don't think FTS will be able to do that. The main problem is that the Lissajous pattern would lag behind the recording I think enough to make it hard to use for tuning purposes.

So unfortunately I think I'll have to say it can't be done.

I've added it to the wish list for FTS for the future, so if I get the time I'll take a closer look at it just in case. FTS is able to find the frequency accurately for a very short time slice - for some types of note - but that feature is best suited for monophonic lines so not very useful in this situation.

Tune Smithy Wish List - Show Lissajous pattern for a chord played via microphone in real time, to help with tuning

If this was your reason for buying Lissajous 3D, then you can return your unlock key and I will issue a refund.

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Yes it's a neat idea. As it's on the wish list, I'll look at it again if I get some time. Could do the rest certainly apart from the lag for the latency issue and even if it takes seconds to get a reasonably accurate Lissajous pattern, if not useful for tuning, could be nice thing to look at and kind of help as confirmation. With the shade to background feature for patterns that don't join up you would see a sudden change to a simple pattern with solid colour when the exact just intonation tuning is reached (maybe with some very small tolerance).

I wondered if anyone else has done it already, and just had a google and found another program that does this, Japanese site:
Guitar tuning by XY mode of oscilloscope. Not tested it or downloaded it yet.

Good to hear about your inventions, keep it up!

Also glad to hear you like Lissajous 3D, and the screensaver too . I had a lot of fun making that.

Thanks,

Robert


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