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  • October 18, 2011 at 4:28 pm #147053
    janet-king
    Participant

    I’m looking for advice for a good tuner app for the iPhone.

    October 18, 2011 at 4:41 pm #147054
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    Cleartune or iStrobosoft.

    October 18, 2011 at 4:43 pm #147055
    brook-boddie
    Participant

    I use Cleartune, and it works very well.

    October 18, 2011 at 5:04 pm #147056
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    Ditto on Cleartune.

    October 19, 2011 at 12:11 am #147057
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    I also use cleartune and istrobosoft.

    To my

    October 19, 2011 at 1:23 pm #147058
    Sid Humphreys
    Participant

    I use the Peterson app. Try plugging in your earphones that came with the iPhone and let the microphone dangle inside the soundbox if you’re having trouble, this acts as a pick up mic. I noticed that Peter Wiley (the harp doc) uses his phone to tune harps when he regulates now…

    October 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm #147059
    diane-michaels
    Spectator

    Do tuner pick-ups like the Matrix work as an external microphone for an ipod touch with either of these apps?

    October 19, 2011 at 4:42 pm #147060
    kreig-kitts
    Member

    Barbara Brundage talks about tuner

    October 19, 2011 at 5:39 pm #147061
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    Yes, with something like the little cable from Peterson they work fine.

    October 24, 2011 at 1:14 pm #147062
    jean-mac
    Participant

    Just to clarify:

    October 24, 2011 at 2:00 pm #147063
    barbara-brundage
    Participant

    You can use the apple earbuds with mic, the jellybean mic, or any mic you can attach via a cable like the one from peterson or one of the other more expensive cables like the iRig. I used my regular old clip on pickup or the cable from the built-in pickup on my harp that had one.

    (Later ipods do have a mic built in, but it tends to hear everything, so I still would use an external for this–it’s not like the mic in the iphone.)

    October 28, 2011 at 1:25 am #147064
    rosalind-beck
    Participant

    Janet, I read the posts on this. I was intrigued and decided to try some tuning apps on my iPod Touch 4th generation.

    October 28, 2011 at 3:02 am #147065
    tony-morosco
    Participant

    Rosiland,
    Clear tune also is automatic. At the center of the round dial is a little lock icon. It looks like half a lock actually.

    If it is red you have to set the dial to the note you want. Tap it and it turns white. Then it will automatically center on the tone like the others.

    October 28, 2011 at 10:48 am #147066
    rosalind-beck
    Participant

    Thanks, Tony.

    November 9, 2011 at 1:18 am #147067
    rosalind-beck
    Participant

    Update:

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