Something that I use for tuning drums, oddly enough is:
Digital Guitar Tuner, which can be found at:
http://www.guitar.sk
I also have an iPhone app, yes, Talking Tuner, but for the sounds, which is
what I want to hear for tuning against the instrument sound, I also use Tuner
Plus:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tuner/id447600117
It should be noted, that Digital Guitar Tuner is a Windows app, and you may
need to convince your browser to get it from their downloads page by clicking
or pressing continue, as the browser may feel it is unsafe. I get this in
Chrome. It is safe, and no spyware on any of my boxes.
It has 27 alternate tuning presets. It can use your Windows MIDI basic sound
mapper, to give you in my case 127 various instrument sounds, as your output
device. It can also take input from a microphone, however, I have never used it
for that.
I choose MIDI from the options menu, and choose my sound, like piano, for
example.
I then use the numbers on my number row, to issue the specific note sounds that
I wish to hear, and the number zero to stop the sounds from playing.
The iOS app, Tuner Plus, has a few presets and a few various samples of
instruments, and their bass default tuning for the specific instrument that you
choose.
Again, I use piano, as it has all of the notes from middle C, up to high C.
These are not tuners in the sense of an image or LEDs display on screen, they
are in both of my examples above, programs that play various output sounds, so
you can tune your instrument against the sample tones.
In the case of the iOS app, Tuner Plus, he has sampled various instruments, and
once you choose the insttrument, you hear the strings of that instrument, in
its default tuning state. There is also a square wave tone function, if you
want to hear, not the instrument, but just a solid square wave tone for each
note value.
Hope this might help someone.
Roger R. Cusson
Computer Access Specialist
Seeing Hands Enterprises - Lisbon, Maine
Website: https://rogercusson.com
TEL: (207) 353-5007
Skype Contact: rcusson
A quote to live by:
"Any program that works perfectly, simply hasn't been tested properly!"
