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..Shows you the tune of the sample you are playing in real time.

Just been watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uENUJl_MqBM (Audio's Advanced Music Production Tutorial Part1) and he uses a "tuner" to show him what note the samples he is browsing are hitting at.

Does anyone on here know of any? Free or to purchase?


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What DAW are you using? FL has Pitcher.

Melda production do a free spectrum analyser that also lets you view the notes. It's awesome, i can't recommend it highly enough. It has a de-harmonise feature that lets you reduce the detail and find the root note of a sound. The only downside is that it's a bit CPU heavy.

Thanks for the info here I'm going to grab this if it's free

or, you could train your ears.

use sub bass, it makes it easy. basically, just have the sound/song playing that you want to find out what key it's in. then start playing different notes on a sub. it can only be 1 of 12 notes. so search through each one, and if the sub bass sounds like it's in key with the song then you're either on the 1 or 5 of the scale you're trying to find.

i was too scared to try this for at least a year or two, and when i actually tried i found the key of the song using just my ears in about 60 seconds. not as hard as you think it is, i promise.

get the spectrum analyzer, but use it to check and see if your ears were correct.

Thank you for your very useful replies !

@mthrfnk - Mine doesn't appear to have one? is it just called Fl Tuner?

bassinine wrote:or, you could train your ears.

use sub bass, it makes it easy. basically, just have the sound/song playing that you want to find out what key it's in. then start playing different notes on a sub. it can only be 1 of 12 notes. so search through each one, and if the sub bass sounds like it's in key with the song then you're either on the 1 or 5 of the scale you're trying to find.

i was too scared to try this for at least a year or two, and when i actually tried i found the key of the song using just my ears in about 60 seconds. not as hard as you think it is, i promise.

get the spectrum analyzer, but use it to check and see if your ears were correct.

great advice, i already do this! often i use a sine at a high pitch in order to locate the correct pitch as its easier to hear different tunes higher up the octaves (well for me anyway). This was really just a time saver and to use on things such as kicks and claps which are harder to pin point

safe guys

Any guitar tuner could do this, theres probably lots of free guitar tuner plugins out there

I tried a free tuner once (forget the name) and I wasn't really happy with the results.

I usually just rely on my trusty old spectrum analyzer; just look for the fundamental. I'm a very visual person, so going by seeing it can always help (even though having trained ears is incredibly valuable).

zakski wrote:I tried a free tuner once (forget the name) and I wasn't really happy with the results.

I usually just rely on my trusty old spectrum analyzer; just look for the fundamental. I'm a very visual person, so going by seeing it can always help (even though having trained ears is incredibly valuable).

If its polyphonic material or something with fast note progressions then a tuner would be useless but yeah I cant think of any plugins that would help in that situation other than melodyne

best just to practice training your ears. load up a sine wave and hit keys until you find the root

I use gtune sometimes (free tuner vst). You might try filtering to get those kinds of things to work better. Or a spectrum analyzer.
bassinine's suggestion is really the best way to go, though. Training your ears will help so much. I've played guitars that go out of tune quickly and retuning it to itself is great practice for training your ears. You'll notice the beating of frequencies.

If you're working with one shots of percussion, just use a low pass filter and bring it down until nothing is left and then back it up.

blue cat freqanalyst pro

bassinine wrote:or, you could train your ears.

use sub bass, it makes it easy. basically, just have the sound/song playing that you want to find out what key it's in. then start playing different notes on a sub. it can only be 1 of 12 notes. so search through each one, and if the sub bass sounds like it's in key with the song then you're either on the 1 or 5 of the scale you're trying to find.

i was too scared to try this for at least a year or two, and when i actually tried i found the key of the song using just my ears in about 60 seconds. not as hard as you think it is, i promise.

get the spectrum analyzer, but use it to check and see if your ears were correct.

Dont know if I agree. I'd do this with midbass sines for sure, but I surely would not go under C 64hz. our ears are very bad at determining pitch of sub bass,

VirtualMark wrote:Melda production do a free spectrum analyser that also lets you view the notes. It's awesome, i can't recommend it highly enough. It has a de-harmonise feature that lets you reduce the detail and find the root note of a sound. The only downside is that it's a bit CPU heavy.

Cool will give this a look. Download link on their site is here
http://www.meldaproduction.com/download ... ectsBundle