The Original Shareware Piano Tuning Program for Windows.
Featuring:
Improved frequency locking mode
Template tuning curves
Adaptive over-pull
Many historical temperaments
from Jorgensen and others
The TuneLab 97 program uses standard multimedia hardware, which is built-in to most laptop computers, to help you to tune pianos. It requires a 486 or a Pentium running Windows. It is available as shareware by downloading it right now:
This downloads a single file, TL97307.EXE, which will install TuneLab 97 on your Windows computer. This download includes the TuneLab 97 program and many historical temperament files.
On-line Registration: If you have tried TuneLab 97 and would like to become a registered user you can follow the instructions given when you exit from TuneLab 97, or you can register on-line by clicking here. The registration fee is $34. In return for paying the registration fee, you will be given a password that will enable you to install TuneLab 97 so that your name appears in the caption bar of the program (instead of "Unregistered Evaluation Version"), and the three reminder boxes at program exit will be removed.
Multiple Audio Devices in One Computer?
Starting with version 3.06, TuneLab 97 automatically searches for the "preferred" audio device with the required capabilities. Before this version, Windows 2000 users sometimes had trouble with TuneLab selecting the wrong audio device. Furthermore, there was a bug in previous versions that prevented the recognition of any audio devices if device 0 did not have the required format.
How TuneLab 97 Works
The TuneLab 97 program requires that your computer have a microphone input or a built-in microphone. The sound device in your computer is be configured by TuneLab 97 to sample continuously at 22,050 Hz. The sampled data is continually used to update a moving-bar phase display. The program also maintains a real-time frequency spectrum display. This display together with the phase display gives a complete picture of the tuning situation. This program allows the use of custom stretched tuning to compensate for inharmonicity.
Calcul8 by David Porritt
In order to calculate a tuning curve directly from certain inharmonicity readings, David Porritt wrote a program called Calcul8, which is a plug-in extension to TuneLab 97. Calcul8 is now available by downloading this ZIP file from Cy Shuster's website: calculate.zip.
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