Tune your drones hands-free, with the phone in front of you — chanter, tenor and bass all tracked live as you play. Big improvements to drone tuning.
Tune your chanter and drones on your pipes. Free to download and start tuning, with an optional in-app Pro upgrade that unlocks the full power of the tuner and its advanced features.
Braw Bagpipe Tuner has been written specifically for the tonal and tuning requirements of the Bagpipes, and uses highly advanced pitch detection algorithms which have been further customized for the pipes.
Thanks to our new QuantumNote technology, the Braw Bagpipe Tuner revolutionizes tuning with its ability to quickly and accurately analyse the tuning of all notes on your chanter while you are playing a tune. This is far superior to all other tuning methods, which rely on holding a single note, as even the best players will adjust their blowing slightly when holding a single note.
Our QuantumNote technology allows you to analyse the tuning when it matters the most - when you are playing! Using QuantumNote, the app is aware of bagpipe ornamentation, and even uses this knowledge to help build an accurate tuning result.
And now QuantumNote extends to your drones too. Place the tuner in front of you and play - your chanter, tenor and bass are all tracked at once, so you can tune your drones without holding the phone to the top of each one.
• Tune chanter while playing - great for going round the members of a Pipe Band and checking the tuning without stopping the practice!
• More accurate tuning - get the tuning as it actually sounds when playing
• Easy drone tuning - keeps separate results for Bass and Tenor drones
The tuner is responsive, accurate and precise. It is also written to be efficient, so you don't need an expensive phone or tablet to be able to run it. The efficiency also means it has relatively low battery consumption.
The tuner lets you tune your chanter and drones based on a reference Low A calibrated to your chanter.
The tuner automatically detects which chanter note or drone note you are playing, based on what is the loudest/closest to your devices microphone. The gauge will then indicate how sharp or flat your chanter note or drones are, allowing you to tune them to achieve sweet sounding pipes.
To suit your preference, different chanter tuning schemes can be chosen.
An optional high contrast theme can be set for outdoor use.
We genuinely welcome feedback, and in particular if you have any problems please don't hesitate to get in touch, either through the app, or via our website.
Read the Description carefully about free and “fully functional with in app purchase”
HD02FATBOY
Read the Description carefully about free and “fully functional with in app purchase”. There is no real deception here in the description if you read the description. It states “Free” and fully functional with in app purchased. So basically the free is a trail version and will be fully functional once you give up $30. In the free version, when you look at the notes half of them are “X” out and don’t appear to be functional. It might be good for the $30, I’m not taking the chance and paying $30 for this app.
Braw tuner
ricpiper
Our band has been using the premium app for a year now. We are quite happy with it compared to other we have used! To have a piper play up the scale and then stop, and then be able to see the recorded notes is a big plus!
Even better
COpiper1
The Braw Bagpipe Tuner was a game changer for pipers when it was first released. The latest version has made an already excellent tool even better! The new drone tuning function works exactly as advertised! Thank you, Bruce, for your excellent work.
Can’t get premium to work
celticpiper67
I purchased the premium upgrade and have never got it to work properly...I am so frustrated. I have contacted the site...no one has returned my messages. Wish I could use the app.
Developer Response
Hi - sorry you are having issues. We always respond when contacted, so it is possible our reply will be in your spam folder. Please get in touch again if you need to, as we can usually help. If you prefer, you are able to get a full refund via the App Store, which we will grant.
Big improvements to drone tuning.
Tune your drones hands-free, with the tuner in front of you.
• Chanter, tenor and bass all tracked live as you play
• More accurate drone readings, at real playing pressure
• Tap Tenor or Bass to fine-tune one drone while the others keep sounding
• Improved HA/HG chanter detection, especially with drones on
• Clearer in-tune indicator on the gauge
Your usual workflow is unchanged — this just adds to it.
Version 3.0
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Information
Seller
Avoir Technology Limited
Size
7.9 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
