![]() ![]() Also, "in tune" can become and obsession which is useless, 99% of the people on the planet cannot hear the difference lower than 20cents (I wish I was kidding) for single notes and most musicians will start to cringe if out of tune based on 10 cents for chords!.not before.shocking but true. In the end, nobody cares about tuning if all instruments are "in tune" relative to the others. Buy a Quicktime, it's much cheaper and will be not that far off. Some other tuners are good like the polytune, especially on stage, but I would not intonate my guitar with it.Īlso, if the tuner is a 's wrong. My personal findings are that whatever branded Korg is the only thing I trust unless it's a Peterson. Let's clarify one thing first: playing guitar in tune in a myth unless you strictly play open strings.if you do, please refrain from doing so in my presence unless you are my 3 years old daughter.Īs far as tuner goes, they are not all made equal. Regardless of what a guitar tuner says though, consider first how things are sounding.but yes I have noticed a few slight variations in pitch with both real instruments, player and virtual instruments. Many real world vocal or instruments that are un-fretted or fixed in tuning, will tend to sharpen upwardly moving melodies and flatten down, or adjust more in line with the harmonic series to get a more 'angelic' harmony than 'just intonation' will allow. Orchestral instruments/players will often play with slight tuning variances and these variances may have been "sampled" into a VSTi inappropriately compared to true literal 'pitch'. That attacks are often sharp is worth thinking about as is the 'octave stretching' piano tuning techniques that might be in play with a real instrument or sampled VST. There is a science that some sharpness is perceived as 'brighter' and may have been intentionally used to 'enhance' the effect of an instrument when compared to others or to 'stand out' by such means. Unless things are way off to the ear (and there probably are ways to adjust tuning, new to DAW's) I would not be over concerned about what a guitar tuner says compared to the real world.Īnecdotally, I used to play in a jazz band with another guitar player that intentionally tuned ever so slightly sharp as he felt this made his sound stand out of the mix, there is something to this, but it always messed with my prefer things slightly flat and us guitar will often play sharp anyway in the lower positions. The act of fretting the note slightly bends the string and differs with the length of the string to the fretted point. As guitar player, it is well known that all the notes in different areas of the fretboard will be slightly off through intonation, for instance, regardless of how well tuned the open strings are. You can learn more about octave stretching from Wikipedia: "Ī lot of synths also combine 'detuned' notes that might throw of a guitar tuner type of thing.but it does seem to be common, but then also 'real' to instruments in the real world. This is due to a tuning technique known as "octave stretching". ![]() This was unintentional and will be fixed in a future update.Īlso, the samples are less sharp in the lower range of the piano and more sharp near the top. The samples are at the exact pitch of the original piano they were taken from. I can confirm that the samples are about 4-6 cents sharp. "Hi, I am the sound designer of Pianissimo. I'll ask my piano tuner his opinion as well." I'll test some of the even more advanced sample-based pianos that I have and report back. Even other TruePianos presets are further off. TruePianos Emerald and Diamond presets are the closest I've found in my tests. The key strike is sharp, then they quickly settle closer to correct pitch. Interestingly, most pianos are showing slightly sharp when played. I calibrated the tuners using a 440Hz sine wave tone from two different tone generators. All notes show anywhere from 6 to 13 cents sharp no matter if playing as standalone or vsti and no matter which preset is used. I used a couple of tuners including aptuner that Eric suggested. "I can confirm that Pianissimo plays sharp. I use Pianissimo for piano for instance and found this recently on their forums. ![]() Real instruments vary as a rule and intonation.so if the VSTi uses samples, it could well be slightly off to a clinical 'tuner'. ![]()
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