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- GuitarTuner V1.1
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- Written and ⌐1994 by Christopher Just
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Are you a guitar player? Great! Do you have perfect pitch?
- Probably not, eh? Then this program's for you. GuitarTuner uses
- your Amiga's audio ciruitry to produce the open string notes for a
- guitar, giving you a reference for tuning your instrument.
- Currently, only standard EADGBe tuning is supported, but that
- could easily change in the next version.
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- DISTRIBUTION
-
- This version of GuitarTuner is copyrighted by the author, but
- is freely distributable. If you find this program useful, please
- let me know. I'd appreciate a postcard from your locale, just so
- I know how far this thing spreads. Or if you have any "rare",
- "import", or <ahem> "live" tapes of Pink Floyd, I'd take those
- instead :)
-
- See the section on Bug Reports below for address information.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- GuitarTuner doesn't need much, just an Amiga running 2.0 or
- higher AmigaOS and a few k of free RAM. Also, it will be a lot
- more useful if you have your Amiga's audio outputs connected to
- some sort of monitor or speaker ;)
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- USAGE
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- At this point, GuitarTuner's windows are pretty much self-
- explanatory, so I'll just give a rough guide here.
- When GuitarTuner is run, it opens a small window on the
- default public screen. On the left side is a set of radio gadgets
- which allow you to select which string to produce a tone for (The
- keys '1' through '6' can also be used to select a string). On the
- right side are a slider to select volume and a check gadget to
- turn the audio on and off.
- GuitarTuner has the usual "About..." and "Quit" menu items, as
- well as an item to open the user preferences window, which
- provides additional control over the sound. Right now the only
- implemented feature in this window is the Waveform gadget, which
- allows you to choose a square, saw, or sine wave pattern.
- Experiment with this to see which waveform is easiest for you to
- use.
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- NOTE ON TUNING
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- Using this program to tune your guitar is much like using a
- keyboard or pitch pipes as a reference. Try to match the pitch of
- the guitar string to the pitch produced by GuitarTuner. When the
- pitch is fairly close, you can use the beats produced by
- interference between the two sounds to help you judge. The slower
- the beats are, the closer they are in pitch.
- For best results, you might want to tune just one string
- against the program and tune the rest of the strings relative to
- that.
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- This program would still have been possible, but would have
- taken much longer to write, if it hadn't been for GadToolsBox by
- Jan van den Baard and IFF To Source by J. Tyberghein.
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- Also, for suggestions and bug reports, I'd like to thank
- Michael Bauer, Jonathan Gapen (whose request will be implemented
- as soon as I get my hands on the new NDK), and Blair Yake
- (alternate tunings, including bass tuning, will be included in the
- program as soon as I collect enough to make them worthwhile (so
- send them in, dudes!). By the way, I've never played bass, so
- pardon my terrible ignorance, but just what is bass tuning?
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- BUGS & BUG REPORTS
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- If you find any bugs, or have any suggestions for
- improvements, please let me know. I am particularly interested in
- knowing what sorts of alternate tunings would be most appreciated
- in future versions. If you have anything you'ld like to tell me,
- send me a note:
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- Septemer thru April:
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- Christopher Just
- Helser 3710 Livingston
- Ames, IA 50012-0002
- USA
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- May to August:
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- Christopher Just
- 306 NW Bramble Rd.
- Ankeny, IA 50021
- USA
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- Email:
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- coronax@iastate.edu
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- RELEASE INFORMATION
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- 1-19-94 1.0
- - First release
- 1-28-94 1.1
- - Added keyboard equivalents for gadgets & menus.
- - About window image positioning wasn't font sensitive.
- - I got my own zip code wrong in the docs :(
- - Added saw waveform.
- - If for some reason I can't start/stop playing a sound,
- it's less likely now that the gadgets will be confused.
- Still not impossible though.
-