Does anyone know of “free” software that takes microphone input from a user and shows what frequency said user is outputting. It would probably be used out of curiosities sake with my voice and perhaps help tuning a guitar (possible applications, who knows). I’m just curious as to whether this software exists and is “free” (ie: “available”).
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- I duno of any free ones right off, but Cakewalk Guitar Studio has a software guitar tuner. You hit an open string on the guitar and it shows how high above or below ideal it is.
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- There are also programs (some free, some not) that convert wav files to MIDI notes. These don’t work well except with instruments that have discrete notes such as pianos, but I haven’t ever tried to use any myself.
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Thanks Doug, I’ll look into the Cakewalk program and see if there are similar free programs that will offer the same features. Anyone else have suggestions?
I’d probably Google for:
spectrum
sound
realtime
software
(your OS… Windows/Macintosh)
Basically you’re after a sound spectrum analyzer. I’d guess a lot of sound recording software would have a similar feature, but it wouldn’t necessarily be realtime.
I went to download.com and found a program called enable Tuner 2.6i, which is a guitar tuner that also shows the frequency of a microphone input. Unfortunately it is a 30 day evaluation copy, so it’ll only have some shortlived functionality. Oh well, at least I found what I was looking for.