[LAU] gxtuner trouble and alternatives

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:23:56 +0200
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 12:16 +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> > I'm on Arch Linux, gxtuner 2.1.
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q gxtuner
> gxtuner 2.1-1
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q jack2
> jack2 1.9.10-1
> 
> Here gxtuner does recognize my sine waves (voice init) from a DX7, but
> high frequencies are ignored and btw. for the frequencies that are
> recognised, gxtuner or my DX7 is very inaccurate.
> 
> My Boss TU-12H is able to notice all frequencies from the DX7 and
> claims that all frequencies are accurate. My hearing claims that the
> Boss tuner's claim is ok and that gxtuner is mistake.
> 
> Some years ago I tested several tuners. The Boss TU-12H is one of the
> best I know, while many other tuners were completely unusable. One
> Linux tuner I tested was very good too, IIRC it was fmit but it
> doesn't work anymore since years, perhaps it was another Linux tuner.
> I bought and tested many tuners, the Boss TU-12H and another one from
> Korg (not available anymore) are the only tuners that fit to my
> taste ... yes, one Linux tuner, perhaps fmit fit to my needs too, but
> it stopped working years ago. I don't test tuners all the times, I
> simply stay with the tuner that fits to my needs. You should test any
> instrument tuner available for Linux, some might be crap and others
> might do what you want.

Thanks Ralf, I tried lingot and it seems to be OK. Not as fancy looking
but it nicely shows notes, cents and frequency. No problem with jack
either. I still wonder what is wrong with gxtuner though.

Regards,
Philipp