Analyser & Tuner AUv3 Plugin 4+

Analyzer/Tuner is great, but need HELP!

I use the analyzer to find the tune of my samples and I used to use the tuner which is a guessing game due to complex harmonics of most samples. I noticed you added a “note detect” feature but can’t find anything on the web on how it’s used. Is the green color dot the dominant tone? I figure the numbers on the y axis are the octave, but how do I know the root note of the sample? What do the other color dots mean?

Developer Response ,

The note detection was something recommended to me by one of my users that wanted to be able to visualise chords rather than single notes. Using this view you can see the individual notes and octaves.

The problem as you rightly pointed out is that notes are not pure tones, and contain lots of harmonics. A sine wave is a pure tone and is easy to distinguish, but something like a guitar string or piano are very complex and its hard to determine the fundamental note.

The display uses colours of hue to determine the loudest signal (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), so violet/purple is the strongest note. If you are playing single notes and see more than a single orb glowing it is due to harmonics, which can at times be louder than the fundamental note.

I hope this helps.

Very responsive

This is pretty awesome, and responds very well to the input with hardly any lag. The different modes are nice for various applications. It pretty much does what you would want it to, like momentarily freezing the display, etc. My only wish is that you were able to zoom in on the frequencies to narrow the span of frequencies shown on the graph, especially in linear mode.

It’s becoming my go to Tuner

I think I need a little more practice with this app to get the tuner to react in a more smooth fashion it jerks around a little bit for me and I have yet to figure out how to adjust it to get a nice smooth flat or sharp showing. But it is an awesome app to have if you need a tuner for multiple types of devices.