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Licensing
for TuneLab Pocket and TuneLab for Smartphones has been separate
until now. Starting with version 4.0, licensing for these two
products are combined. When you pay for either one of these
programs (or upgrade either one of these programs), you will get a
license number that will work with both of them. That way you
can comfortably move between a touchscreen Pocket PC and a
non-touchscreen Smartphone without paying for another license.
(The TuneLab Pro license is still separate.)
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Aural
Tuning Sequences are implemented as another choice for the note
switching mode. Aural tuning sequences are defined by text
files that you edit off-line (using Notepad or Pocket Word).
Aural Tuning Sequence note switching happens when you press the
spacebar in TuneLab Pro, when you tap on the Current Note display in
TuneLab Pocket, or when you press the action key on a Smartphone.
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When
over-pull safety limits are limiting the over-pull amount, that
offset will be highlighted on the screen, along with the over-pull
status box. This will alert you to the fact that another pass
may be needed.
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The
tuning error is displayed numerically in cents in the right side of
the spectrum display, as shown below.
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Two
new Spectrum Zoom levels are available: +/- 260 cents and +/-
130 cents, each with an expanded middle that shows +/- 10 cents
expanded to take up 20% of the screen. This allows a wider view
of the spectrum for pitch-raises, while still showing a
high-resolution display within 10 cents of the target pitch.
For example, the following pictures show how a peak looks when it is
6 cents off versus 25 cents off. When these dual-zoom views are
selected, the usual labelling of frequency in Hz. is replaced by
labeling the offset from the target in cents.
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An
option is added to allow for an alternate layout for changing notes
by tapping on the Spectrum Display in TuneLab Pocket. Instead
of dividing up the Spectrum Display into four quadrants, this
optional layout divides the Spectrum Display into four side-by-side
boxes. For example, the following picture shows the Spectrum
Display with this optional note-changing layout just after touching
the "note down" box:
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An
option is added to display alternate selections for the bass and
treble intervals in the deviation curve. The alternate
selections do not affect automatic adjustment of the tuning
curve. They are for informational purposes only. The
alternate selections are made in the tunelabsettings.txt
file. In the example shown here, the regular selections
are for the 6:3 octave in the bass and the 4:1 double octave in the
treble. The alternate selections (shown in blue) are for the
8:4 octave in the bass and the 4:2 octave in the treble.
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An
option is added to store the Basic Offset setting in a tuning file
when it is saved. When that tuning file is loaded later, that
stored Basic Offset will be restored.
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In
Tuning Exam Mode, an option is added to automatically transfer the
offset to the Custom Offset for the selected note. When this
option is enabled, recording of a master or examinee's tuning is faster.
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Improved
accommodations for landscape mode in TuneLab Pocket.
Previously, when you changed screen orientation, TuneLab required
that you close the program and re-open it. In version 4,
TuneLab can make the format adjustments on-the-fly
automatically. You will not have to exit the program when you
change screen orientation. Also, the inharmonicity measurement
results box for landscape mode has been changed so that you do not
have to scroll down to get the the "Save" and
"Discard" buttons.