As someone who has been accustomed to tuning a wind instrument since a young age I really thought I knew what tuning was --- until I read "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics" by Arthur H. Benade. Have you ever tried to tune a piano? 😂 (You don't want all notes to be precisely tuned by themselves -- some notes have to be flat and other have to be sharp and you have to take into consideration that each note is really 3 or more strings that cannot be 100% in tune with each other or the note won't sustain properly.)
Agreed. Synths especially make it really easy and fun to experiment with pitches separated by parts of a cent. Even just applying a filter can drop the average pitch enough to sound "out of tune." :)
Yes indeed as you are exposing harmonics (and what are known as heterodyne frequencies) away from the fundamental. Ever wonder why, for example, a note like A4 is 440 Hz but C3 is 261.626 Hz?
Very funny, however are we just gonna ignore those screws on the back of our modules? I thought the little brass ones were specific to tune your oscillator
Hi , first of all thanks for reply and making this video . I understand how you make pitch . Thats the coarse tuning right? How you can visulualized or can hear the pitch intervals . I build 3 hydroniums . First of calibration is scale trim . But manual says . If it dont sound true adjust the trimmer . If it sounds flat turn him clockwise if it sounds sharp turn it clockwise . ( dont understand the true sound sharp flat 🤔) I make an arpeggio with 2 C in different octaves and turn the trimmer . I dont know if i do it right . I connect it with a guitar tuner and adjust the trimmer until the measurements stays stabel . In the beginning the tuner go ‘s left right left right . After that i go back to coarse tune to get the right note . Making the arpeggio again to make it stable with the scale trim . Just want to know if i am doing it right ? In the video its only the pitches you adjust ,
@@lenistwho - I think I understand. You're building one of these? ( rarewaves.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Hydronium-User-Guide-v1.02.pdf ) - Are you using it with CV control or MIDI control? The guide has two sections for each on tuning for that. But maybe the problem that when you tune to a "C" with the first note in the arpeggio...it's in tune, but the next "C" at the top of the arpeggio is not in tune? That sounds like a calibration problem and the manual has a detailed section for that on page ~19?
Luke Stark yes i builded 3 of them . Got them in tune and calibrated yesterday . I al coming of no experience first synth i had to tune was my Gilbert . He is not right yet . Think i have it now . Doing it with midi Making an arpegio of a A1 and A2 , looking to a boss pedal tuner and turn scale until there is constant the same note on the screen (not looking to what note ) The measure point go’s up and down Than i play only one note and tune it right on the spot with coarse trimmer Going back to that arpegio i made , and try to make that measure point stable by going slowy to ALMOST that point where its constant . With scale trimmer Switch back to the one note to tune right with coarse And go back to that arp until that arp measurement turns green and that one note also .
@@lenistwho Sometimes it's easier when you use a two octave span for calibration, like A1 - A3 or A2 - A4. It depends on the synth though. So you are all good now?
@@synthseeker I'm brand new to synth world and I dont give demonic men clout just because they can communicate verbally. 448 is amazing and I'd like to find an adult that can tell me about amazing synth for under 1000.
