Richard, I have to ask you why you didn't include TuneLab Pro or Pocket in your choice of softwares. I am quite happy with pocket TuneLab. I've used them all, have also the verituner that I love, but... The size of pocket PC and the cost of TuneLab Pocket would be more interesting for me if I was just beginning. Marcel Carey, RPT Sherbrooke, QC > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On > Behalf Of Richard Brekne > Sent: 15 mars, 2004 14:12 > To: Pianotech > Subject: Re: HELP - WHICH ETD? > > > Lori Levens wrote: > > > Hello, > > Looking for suggestions and opinions for purchasing > an Electronic > > Tuning Device. Really appreciate some guidance from > those of you who > > have experience. SAT's (WHICH model)? Veritune? Peterson? What > > about buying used? Where might I find a good deal on a great > > condition used ETD? Thank you in advance for helping me > narrow my > > choices! Lori > > Depends on what you want to use them for. Verituner will do > everything > outside of turning the pins for you. SAT and CyberTuner are > a rats hair > behind, and have a couple features of their own. Tunelab > will require > more from you, especially Tunelabe 97. The Peterson out and > out requires > you to know a fair amount of tuning theory in order to put > it to real > good use... but really... its just a step behind Tunelab 97 in this > regard. All of them do as good a job as you could ever need at > referencing any particular frequency. The real difference > in these is > how each of them arrives at the frequencies for each note > of the piano. > > If you want to use an ETD to simply make sure that your > tunings match > the partials you want them to ahead of time... then I'd > suggest Tunelab > 97 or the Peterson.... Tunelab is cheaper but requires a PC. > > If you want an ETD to calculate all those frequencies for > you as well... > then these first two wont do at all.... and you need to > choose either > the SAT, Verituner, or Cyber Ear. The SAT is the > lightest, longest > battery life and all around easiest to deal with in most > regards. Cyber > Ear has the advantage of being software based... which > means you can > port it to new hardware as time goes by... but upgrades to > the software > are expensive and the software protection is not at all > user freindly > IMHO... tho it does come with a few goodies that are nice > to have and > instructional to be sure. Verituner has the most > sophisticated tuning > curve algorithm, tho it is heavier then the SAT, a bit > larger and not > nearly the same battery life. > > My suggestion is Tunelab 97. Use it to learn how to make your own > tuning curves... to learn the underlying reasoning for > single partial > curves, and to gain deeper understanding into tuning > theory. It is by > far the least expensive, and has the potential for doing > just as good a > job in the end as any of its more sophisticated cousins. > > Cheers > RicB > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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