insTuner For Mac

Tuning your acoustic or electric musical instruments can prove to be rather challenging without the appropriate tools. insTuner is a small but very efficient Mac OS X application that can help you perform this task with minimal effort.

insTuner works as a status bar menu application, which means that its easily accessible without requiring your attention unnecessarily. The app comes with an advanced Digital Signal Processing algorithm which means that it can automatically analyze the sound captured by your Mac’s microphone and display details about the tone used.

Moreover, insTuner can also generate tones in order to help you tune your instruments by ear: this way you can both check and improve your tone recognizing capabilities.

Thanks to its intuitive design, finding your way around the insTuner interface is fairly easy: the main panel displays the currently captured note, and you get to expand the window in order to access the tone generator. Note that the Fine Tuning and the Historical Curve modes can be activated only throughout in-app purchases.

insTuner comes with very few customization options, but you get to easily access them via the app’s Preferences window. Here you can change the Concert A frequency, and the sound temperament: 12 Equal Temperament, Bach, Barnes, Kellner, Lambert, Rossi, Salinas, Valloti, and so on.

The same area also enables you to change the audio input source: you get to use the built-in microphone, the built-in input, or an aggregate device that is connected to your computer.

To conclude, insTuner provides both easy to use and highly efficient tools that can accurately identify and generate tones, in order to help you tune your acoustic and electrical musical instruments.