Quick Guide

Main Tuner View

Once you install qTuner from App Store, the default UI display is as below. You can toggle on/off to show dashboard in order to see more tuning information and configurations shown as below. Statistics tab shows tuning info and Advanced Options tab provides tuning configurations:

  • Note Transposition

  • A4 Calibration

  • Notation Conversion

  • Tuning Algorithm

Default Tuner View
Main Tuner with Dashboard

You can pick an algorithm for difference purpose

To select better algorithm, AMDF delivers more accurate response while Dynamic Wavelet is faster. ACF2PLUS tends to have balance in between. You can use different algorithm to see which one suits your needs.

There is another option called Sound Level, which manages tuning sensitivity. Lower number catches less loud sound but might suffer from performance issue, higher number can block unnecessary minor noise and help to improve performance. Default is 15.

You can also toggle numbers around tuning circle by pressing them. They switches between (default order, major/minor circle of firths).

Music Staff View

Music Staff View shows pitch location in the staff in C major. You are able to toggle clef to see different location based on cled type (G/C/F).

Staff View to show pitch location

Staff View shows out-of-range icon if current pitch is out of range from current clef

Press clef directly to switch between different clefs

Instrument Tuner View

Instrument Tuner View lets you tune different musical instruments. There are 5 pre-defined instruments available already for tuning purpose. You can also add any custom instrument into saved list for future use.

Instrument View contains all pitches you want to tune. For example, as of violins, 4 key notes indicating 4 strings correspondingly

Click icon on the left in order to select instruments you want to use for tuning

You can add a custom instrument other than pre-defined ones. Just press the icon on the right, specify the name, add notes (up to 6 notes), and press save

Tone Generator View

You can also use Tone Generator View to generate certain pitches as well. There are 5 available instruments (Bass, strings, guitar, piano and accordion) to select for tone generation. The pitch is from C1 to B6. You can press the small circle to let generator play tone indefinitely.

Tone generator view lets you generate tones

Press small icon to play pitches repeatedly