Welcome to Linotune!


linotune in use by Kyle Cox at Pantheon Steel


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Linotune is a new harmonic strobe tuner software for Mac and Windows, designed specifically for the simultaneous tuning of fundamental and overtones, as needed for instruments such as steelpans, handpans, marimbas, and vibraphones.

Its patent-pending technology makes linotune the first program to not only match the performance of electromechanical strobe tuners, but in fact beat them in terms of sensitivity, frequency separation, and display clarity. Add to that the inherent software advantages of flexibility, portability, and upgradeability - linotuning starts where electromechanical strobes reach their limits!

Try linotune for free today!

Key Features:

  • unprecedented sensitivity & clarity of strobe display.
  • retro mode emulates traditional strobe disk
  • add & remove strobe bands at will to analyze & display any set of partials, not just one note across all octaves
  • set up & transpose modal patterns of allowed notes
  • peak spectrum overlay shows all significant partials at their exact (not interpolated!) frequency
  • robust automtic pitch recognition mode, can even detect a missing fundamental
  • smart pitch pipe can sound any partial either continuously, or as a beep in response to input sounds
  • scale/temperament library uses a standard format with over 4000 scales online - or create your own
  • note names: English, German, solfège, sargam, Russian, Byzantine, or Japanese; custom names & accidentals
  • optional multi-strobe upgrade allows running any number of linked or independent strobes simultaneously

And much more - see the user's guidePDF, 0.6MB for further details.

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Posted by lino on 2 Mar 2012