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What the scale practice and Your music start from. They are kept on this device, and each page can still change them for one recording.
Instrument
The open strings, the range and the clef of the scales follow it. Music you add is read for this instrument.
Reference A
441 Hz is the usual choice for a string player. “Estimate from my playing” works out the A you actually played to, from the whole recording.
If you bow each open string at the start of a scale recording, the app uses how you tuned instead.
Thirds
A pure third rings with the note below it and is the one to aim for when a third sounds on its own.
A major third is 13.7 cents lower, and a minor third 15.6 cents higher, than on a piano. With pure thirds on:
- in scales and arpeggios, the third above the tonic (the F♯ of D major, the F of D minor) is judged against its pure pitch;
- in Your music, the upper note of a third inside a double or triple stop is judged against the pure pitch over the note below it;
- every other note is judged in equal temperament, as before.
Takes you made before are not changed. The result says which tuning judged it.
Open strings
A violin is tuned in pure fifths from the A, so the open strings ring with each other. Against a piano, the violin G is 3.9 cents
lower, the D 2.0 lower and the E 2.0 higher (viola and cello: the C is 5.9 lower, the G 3.9, the D 2.0; the A is the reference). With pure fifths on, a note that is an open string,
or the same note one or two octaves up, is judged against that pitch, so a perfectly tuned open G reads 0, not −4, in the scales, your music and the chord tuner. Where a note is also a pure third, the third rule is used.
Takes you made before are not changed.
Strictness
A cent is a hundredth of a semitone. Beginner forgives the most and suits the first steps on the instrument; Relaxed suits a player who is
still learning; Standard asks for what a careful player or a teacher listens for. The counts, the report card and the notes that keep going wrong all follow it; the colours always
show the true pitch, and the cents are written under the notes that are out of tune. A take you made before keeps the strictness it was judged at. Only when you stack takes is every
one judged again, from its saved cents, at the strictness you have now, so the layers can be compared. A note 50 cents or more away is a wrong note whatever you choose.
Practice plan
When on, pieces and scales you've played a few times get a Practice Plan card for tricky notes, practised slowly then faster step by step,
and checked again the next day. When off, you only see results and reports (Beta).
Listen first
When this is on, after each recording the app asks “How was your intonation?” (flat, in tune or sharp) before it shows the result. Then it
shows what you said next to the result in one line. It trains your ear, and it gives your teacher something to talk about. Your answer is kept only with that take, on this device.