HELP - WHICH ETD?

[Marcel Carey]

Richard,

I have to ask you why you didn't include TuneLab Pro or Pocket in your
choice of softwares. I am quite happy with pocket TuneLab. I've used
them all, have also the verituner that I love, but... The size of
pocket PC and the cost of TuneLab Pocket would be more interesting for
me if I was just beginning.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of Richard Brekne
> Sent: 15 mars, 2004 14:12
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Re: HELP - WHICH ETD?
>
>
> Lori Levens wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >     Looking for suggestions and opinions for purchasing
> an Electronic
> > Tuning Device.  Really appreciate some guidance from
> those of you who
> > have experience.  SAT's (WHICH model)?  Veritune?  Peterson? What
> > about buying used?  Where might I find a good deal on a great
> > condition used ETD?  Thank you in advance for helping me
> narrow my
> > choices!  Lori
>
> Depends on what you want to use them for. Verituner will do
> everything
> outside of turning the pins for you. SAT and CyberTuner are
> a  rats hair
> behind, and have a couple features of their own. Tunelab
> will require
> more from you, especially Tunelabe 97. The Peterson out and
> out requires
> you to know a fair amount of tuning theory in order to put
> it to real
> good use... but really... its just a step behind Tunelab 97 in this
> regard.  All of them do as good a job as you could ever need at
> referencing any particular frequency. The real difference
> in these is
> how each of them arrives at the frequencies for each note
> of the piano.
>
> If you want to use an ETD to simply make sure that your
> tunings match
> the partials you want them to ahead of time... then I'd
> suggest Tunelab
> 97 or the Peterson.... Tunelab is cheaper but requires a PC.
>
> If you want an ETD to calculate all those frequencies for
> you as well...
> then these first two wont do at all.... and you need to
> choose either
> the SAT, Verituner, or Cyber Ear.   The SAT is the
> lightest, longest
> battery life and all around easiest to deal with in most
> regards.  Cyber
> Ear has the advantage of being software based... which
> means you can
> port it to new hardware as time goes by... but upgrades to
> the software
> are expensive and the software protection is not at all
> user freindly
> IMHO... tho it does come with a few goodies that are nice
> to have and
> instructional to be sure.  Verituner has the most
> sophisticated tuning
> curve algorithm, tho it is heavier then the SAT, a bit
> larger and not
> nearly the same battery life.
>
> My suggestion is Tunelab 97.  Use it to learn how to make your own
> tuning curves... to learn the underlying reasoning for
> single partial
> curves, and to gain deeper understanding into tuning
> theory.  It is by
> far the least expensive, and has the potential for doing
> just as good a
> job in the end as any of its more sophisticated cousins.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
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