Jim Coleman, Sr. writes: >>It will be interesting to see if the new Reyburn CyberTuner allows more >>control >octave by octave in the initial tuning stage. > Ted Simmons writes: >I've paid pretty close attention to the pianotech pages over the last month >but I don't remember reading about the Reyburn CyberTuner. Can someone >enlighten me? Well, since Jim mentioned it and Ted asked, I will try to provide "just the facts" ;-) Briefly, Reyburn CyberTuner is a software program which turns a Macintosh laptop computer into a complete and stand-alone visual tuning system. RCT was just released on July 17th '96. What Jim is referring to mainly is the Chameleon 2 (Ch2) component in RCT. Ch2 listens to 5 or 6 notes (A's) on the piano and records the partial ladders (all the partials needed to aurally tune the piano). Then it calculates a "virtual aural tuning" based on equalizing the partial ladders with virtual octaves (2:1, 4:2, 6:3, and 8:4) double octaves (4:1 and 8:2) and 8:1 triple octaves. The octave widths are based on the user's preference. There are 10 preset tuning styles, or the user can set the four aural parameters which control stretch directly. Chameleon 2 creates tuning records with any tuning style from squeaky clean octaves and double octaves to super-stretch tunings with very audible (but even) beats in the octaves, and everything in between. The Ch2 tuning records can be used directly with CyberEar, built in to Reyburn CyberTuner, or can be shared with a MIDI equipped Sanderson Accu- Tuner. Ch2 has been arround for about a year now, as a component of Tuning Manager for Macintosh. I'm the creator of RCT, and I'd be happy to tell you about the incredible job the Chameleon 2 and CyberEar do to help you tune a piano, but since I'm a little biased,<g> maybe I better let an RCT user or two comment on that.... Hope that helps! -Dean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dean L. Reyburn, RPT web page: www.reyburn.com Cedar Springs, MI, USA 1-888-SOFT-440 email: dean@reyburn.com
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