SATlll vs Verituner

[Richard Brekne]

I keep hearing this kind of comment from Veritune users.... shall I say...
converts.. and it begs an answer to how this can be....how can it be that a
Verituner tuning is significantly better then a RCT, SAT, or other tuning aid
tuning ?

There are only three really possiblities it seems...

1.  It doesnt really... its all in the users imagination
2. The hardware is much better (this seems doubtfull... or what)
3. The basic approach... (tuning algorithm) is inherently a better one.

If the third is indeed the case.. then we get right smack into the degree of
validity the single partial based tuning curve really has, and also right into
one of the arguements given by ear tuners that really never has been
satisfactorilly answered.

I think it may be time to find some really truely objective manner in which to
evalute tunings and do a tuneoff based on those critera... Not for the purpose
of justifying the use of ETD's or to do the opposite... but to learn more about
what a good tuning really is.

Myself, after useing RCT and Tunelab for over two years now... I more and more
find the resultant tuning lacking..  oh its more evenly spaced (especially in
the treble) then I can do without great effort.......but that seems to be the
problem... that particular form of eveness seems to lack some character and
definition...some clarity... dont really know how to describe it.... but
leaving the basic idea of  "how to tune a piano according to SAT and RCT" seems
to leave me with a better sounding piano. And not just according to my own ears
apparently...but thats another story.





Isaac OLEG SIMANOT wrote:

> I use the Verituner since 1 month.
>
> I find its use much more natural than other EDT I have used too (SAT II and
> RCT).
>
> The tunings need less tweaking, and a custom mode allow to define patterns
> you can apply to a model or a type of piano (did not use these yet).
>
> Never had a temperament problem (but + or - stretch) in temperament zone.
>
> The tunings are astonishing, even on bad scales pianos.
>
> Regards.
>
> Isaac OLEG
>
>

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no