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How to Tune a Ukulele with Your Mac

by C.K. Sample, III Mar 14th 2005 at 2:01PM

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...Actually, this applies to any instrument, even your voice, but since I am the proud owner of a brand new ukulele, I thought I’d reference it in the title of the post.

Do you need a small useful tuning programs to help you ensure that you are hitting the correct notes while laying down the vocals to your band’s new album in Garageband?  If so, check out Perfect Pitch ($15 donationware).  I’ve been using my Powerbook’s internal mic along with Perfect Pitch to tune my guitar for a while now. It’s a good little Cocoa app that is rather intuitive and has some nice advanced features like displaying precise frequencies for fine tuning your real A sharp to an ideal A sharp. 



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Trevor

What I want to know is: can I use this to tune my air guitar?

March 16 2005 at 1:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Leland

GarageBand only bases its pitch off of A=440, and doesn't seem configurable to any other scale or reference pitch. That's good enough for most Western instruments in room temperature, but Perfect Pitch is much more configurable. Pretty cool app from Line Of Sight.

March 15 2005 at 6:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Laurie

Off-pitch you say? That sounds about right for C.K.

March 14 2005 at 10:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
C.K. Sample, III

DF, it matches my tuning fork correctly. Maybe your friend's mic is not quite 100%? What were the three others she tried?

March 14 2005 at 9:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Laurie

Sticks and stones ;-p

March 14 2005 at 5:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DF

Recommended this to a ukelele-playing friend. She said she tried it along with three other tuners, and this one was the only one that was off-pitch. Go figure ;)

March 14 2005 at 4:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
C.K. Sample, III

As I mentioned, I don't have iLife '05 yet. Thanks for rubbing it in, jerk! ;-)

March 14 2005 at 4:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Laurie

GarageBand 2 has a tuner built into it as well.

March 14 2005 at 4:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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