Hi Jostein, On Friday 09 December 2011, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: > On a guitar with an ordinary nut, the distance between the nut and the > first fret is in general to big, this situation is better with guitars > with a zero fret. So if you tune every string (open in EADGBE) with a > tuner on a guitar without a zero fret, then it will be wrong already on > the first fret, all the notes on that fret will be slightly to sharp if > the guitar is intonated correctly on the 12th fret. And most of the other > notes will be out of tune, som to sharp and other to flat. I'm not aware > of a tuner that takes this under consideration. > > On a guitar with an ordinary nut, the tuning can never be anything else > than compromises, and to tune open strings with a tuner or using > harmonics is really terrible because not many chords will sound clean. > > I really recommend the links I showed in the previous post, they explains > it all much better than I do: > http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/Tuning/tuning.html > http://www.sternercapo.se/Compensation/index-Eng.HTM > > So this is not about good or bad tuners, it's about physical laws. > Strange enough, only some very expensive guitars are shipped with for > example Earvana nuts (some ESPs and some PRS's as far as I know) - > strange, because Earvana's and SOS' are cheap and makes a big difference. > > The best compromised tuning that I know about is the method Paul Guy > describes here (warning: long link with spaces): > I've read the links you posted with great interest, especially this one > "http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/Tuning/tuning.html#My favourite > method" and here I stumbled about his favorit tuner - see www.turbo-tuner.com. After a while of thinking about the principle of a strobe tuner I have got the feeling, the turbo tuner could be easily implemented in software. > Does really gxtuner (or nearly any other tuner) have functions that solve > this problem on guitars with only the bridge corrected? Would this kind of tuner be of any help for you? Any way, I'd like to sketch up a small test application using Jack's simple_client.c demo application as a starter and an easy to use GUI toolkit for a first version of a graphical user interface. By now it should not give more than a proof of concept. Here I'd like to ask the list for a hint with which kind of GUI Toolkit (preferably in C) I could have a quick and easy start. I fear that if I have first to learn how to work with gtk2 or qt, I will never make progress. Gerhard _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
