[LAU] gxtuner trouble and alternatives

[Len Ovens]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Philipp Überbacher wrote:

> I'm looking for nice an simple tuning program for tuning some Ukuleles.
> I stumbled upon gxtuner, which seems very nice, except that it doesn't
> work for some reason.

Generally I use guitarix, but that would be overkill for what you are 
doing, So I installed some tuners:

lingot: I like it, the meter is very responsive without being too jittery. 
Works with jack. I will probably keep this.

gxtuner: this works for me too, a bit more needle jitter than lingot, but 
still very usable. Works with jack. No menus or settings besides the two 
in the bottom corners.

gtkguitune: I could not get this to work. (I did not try very hard) It did 
not create a jack port nor does it have any way of choosing an audio 
device. For me this is useless as I run Jack all the time and do not want 
to stop jack just to tune. I do recognize the GUI from times past and seem 
to recall it was hard to use anyway, being too sensitive and jittery to 
see what I was doing.

You may prefer lingot if only because you have visual feedback that there 
is signal present even if there is not enough information for tuning 
purposes, but gxtuner should work with jack just fine.

I am finding out why my guitar is so hard to play.... The intonation is 
really bad... E is flat while G (two frets up) is sharp :P  This guitar 
uses a fret for the nut so this may be hard to fix.



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Len Ovens
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