freetuner
Creative
guitar tuner
SHOW HN2014
134points
54comments
#195of 2,272 in 2014
Top 9%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
10 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Execution: 5 for, 2 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Works well and accurate compared with other tuners
From 4 comments
I just tested this against my Snark Clip On tuner (http://www.snarktuners.com/tuners/original-clip-on) and it's almost identical. I hope your site eventually passes the other…
austinl on HNI used this tuner to test it: http://www.audionotch.com/app/tune/ (and this chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies) Seems to work well! Good work.
theatraine on HNNo standalone tuner on me, and both Guitar Toolkit and GarageBand's crap hit-or-miss tuner were failing me with a bass. Remembered seeing this and got tuned up in no time. Thanks…
ryanwhitney on HNJust tried it out with my synth, worked well. Good work :)
yuuks on HN
Clean design and interface
From 3 comments
I don't own a guitar, so I tested this web app by making guitar-like noises. It turns out my voice produces "C" chords...and my neighbors probably think I'm insane. (Jokes aside,…
hawkharris on HNCool! I like the clean interface.
skweezebox on HNWow, great work, I will check out the code and bookmark the page. I struggle to find a program to tune my accustic guitarr because I'm often on different computers. And nice…
jeena on HN
Uses only JavaScript, no Flash needed for microphone
From 1 comment
"I tuned my guitar succesfully with it" Cool! That's what I like to hear. Thanks for the review and feedback. The performance delay may be due to the high volume right now…
hoddez on HN
Objections
Browser support is limited; Safari and some mobile browsers fail
From 3 comments
not supported in Safari? (7.0.1)
plg on HNThis worked on Chrome on Android (KitKat 4.4) but not on Firefox Beta for Android. Both correctly showed the microphone sharing notification, but on Firefox, no sound ever…
donrhummy on HNIt should have worked on Firefox too but there's a bug
donrhummy on HN
Noisy input such as tapping on a desk gets detected as notes
From 1 comment
I don't have a guitar but I can tap on my desk, and that seems to result in random notes. Maybe there's a way to improve the detection so it knows it's a guitar note?
a3camero on HN
High latency and stuttery needle
From 2 comments
Good work, thank you. I have been looking for a free guitar tuner and I have had varying experiences with the ones I've used. I mostly use a linux native app called lingot. It…
exDM69 on HNInteresting. I don't have a microphone, but it did detect my Rocksmith guitar cable as a mike. It almost worked, but didn't quite get the right tone - I'm assuming the custom…
vacri on HN
Fails on some strings such as classical guitar A
From 1 comment
This is great. It seems to have trouble with the A on both of my classical guitars. The needle skips directly from one tick below to one tick above while never lighting up…
bhrgunatha on HN
Requests
Presets for different tunings and strings
From 1 comment
You could add presets for different tunings and strings. That would help :)
cyberjunkie on HN
Explain browser incompatibility on the page instead of an alert
From 1 comment
Why not explain that on the page instead of throwing an alert? When I see alerts like that, my reaction is "this guy just doesn't know what he's doing…it's probably just shitty…
freshyill on HN
Clickable tab or silence function
From 1 comment
This is good, but what would be great is if I can click on that icon and silence the page. This would be useful to silence those ads that play a video automatically and don't…
asimeqi on HN
Questions
Why the five minute timeout exists
From 2 comments
This is awesome. I've bookmarked this for the next time I lose my tuner. Only question, why does it have a 5 minute timeout?
Uehreka on HNVery neat. What's the timeout for?
mmastrac on HN
How the audio analysis works
From 1 comment
Awesome. How does the audio analysis work? Is it all happening client side?
udfalkso on HN
Alternatives named
Snark clip-on tuner
From 1 comment
I just tested this against my Snark Clip On tuner (http://www.snarktuners.com/tuners/original-clip-on) and it's almost identical. I hope your site eventually passes the other…
austinl on HN
Guitar Tuner.app on Mac OS X
From 1 comment
Please try Guitar Tuner.app on Mac OS X. It has a neat UI so I can see where the sound falls within on the scale. Took a screenshot for you: http://imgur.com/XCge66b Personally…
aalpbalkan on HN
lingot on Linux
From 1 comment
Good work, thank you. I have been looking for a free guitar tuner and I have had varying experiences with the ones I've used. I mostly use a linux native app called lingot. It…
exDM69 on HN
audionotch tuner
From 1 comment
I used this tuner to test it: http://www.audionotch.com/app/tune/ (and this chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies) Seems to work well! Good work.
theatraine on HN