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I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Post by groby_b »

TylerE wrote: post #82
KMnO4 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While $1 is certainly far less than the value this app provides, it’s going to be a hard sell when there are several free apps which do the same thing.

Or if you’re paying, just spend the extra few books (it’s $10) and get Petersen Strobosoft which is the absolute gold standard.

Or skip the idea that your phone makes a good tuner, spend $35, and get the TC Electronic Unitune. It's by far the best tuner I've used so far, and it's small enough you can just throw it into your guitar case. (Or leave it permanently attached)

Plus, it's much less fiddly to handle than balancing a phone and a guitar :)

Ultimately, it's a matter of taste, and what you use them for.

Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Post by RHSman2 »

taylodl wrote: post #79

There are two Drop D tunings listed and one is actually Drop C. There is no Drop D♭, you call it Drop C♯ which while it's technically the same set of tones, it's now how guitar players think of it. You have the same issue with E♭ Standard. Each of your notes in these tunings are listed as sharps instead of flats, which is not how guitar players think of the notes in these tunings. Also, you might want to consider pol…

Why is it good? Interested

Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Post by ElijahLynn »

xwowsersx wrote: post #53
psychphysic wrote: post #46

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I agree. Although this might be more about covering development costs than making OP money. An important distinction so many entrepreneurs fail to make. Don't enter a saturated market without anything new on the table if you intend to make money . The problem with this particular market is that musicians can mostly tune by ear. Most will have a dedicated tuner next to their instrument and worst of all these apps don'…

Musicians can tune by ear, but the vast majority of people who play guitar on a daily basis are novices or beginners and they all use tuners or tuner apps.

Even if tuning by ear, when you play with a band or especially are recording, it would be very silly to trust your ear alone because recording hours of takes in an expensive recording studio with many other people's time in a slightly out of tune key would be very disrespectful and wasteful.

Most musicians can tune "relatively" okay, but do not have the ability to tune "absolutely" (perfect pitch).

Here is an example of perfect/absolute pitch that very few musicians have. This is the skill one would need to be able to not use a tuner at all > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw3-k9 (Jimmy Kimmel Puts Charlie Puth’s Perfect Pitch to the Test).

Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Post by xwowsersx »

ElijahLynn wrote: post #95
xwowsersx wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Musicians can tune by ear, but the vast majority of people who play guitar on a daily basis are novices or beginners and they all use tuners or tuner apps.

Even if tuning by ear, when you play with a band or especially are recording, it would be very silly to trust your ear alone because recording hours of takes in an expensive recording studio with many other people's time in a slightly out of tune key would be very disrespectful and wasteful. Most musicians can tune "relatively" okay, but do not have the ability to tune "absolutely" (perfect pitch). Here is an example…

For sure. We always tuned by plugging into tuners when I played in a band. You might get it to closer than completely out of tune by ear, but when you're in close quarters and there's people talking or playing their music, you just plug in and get to the green light.

Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Post by taylodl »

RHSman2 wrote: post #92
taylodl wrote: post #79

There are two Drop D tunings listed and one is actually Drop C. There is no Drop D♭, you call it Drop C♯ which while it's technically the same set of tones, it's now how guitar players think of it. You have the same issue with E♭ Standard. Each of your notes in these tunings are listed as sharps instead of flats, which is not how guitar players think of the notes in these tunings. Also, you might want to consider pol…

Why is it good? Interested

Because you can see the tuning of all the strings at once. You strum and they all show up. Then you can see which ones are more out of tune than others and tune them together. Prevents problems where changing the tuning (tension) of one string throws another string out of tune. I call it "global tuning." It gives you precise tuning extremely fast.

Re: I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

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Post by tomduncalf »

taylodl wrote: post #79

There are two Drop D tunings listed and one is actually Drop C. There is no Drop D♭, you call it Drop C♯ which while it's technically the same set of tones, it's now how guitar players think of it. You have the same issue with E♭ Standard. Each of your notes in these tunings are listed as sharps instead of flats, which is not how guitar players think of the notes in these tunings. Also, you might want to consider pol…

In general polyphonic pitch detection is a much harder problem to solve than monophonic. I guess focussing on guitar tuning only rather than trying to transcribe a whole song makes the problem a bit simpler but still is probably a lot more challenging than handling one note a time. Cool feature though, I had never thought of a polyphonic tuner!
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