A wee tuner for the drones
Artificial intelligence. Tuning the drones anyway.
A robot on a wall once claimed the drones were beyond it. This page listens on your phone, counts the cents, and tells you which way to slide. The pipes stay in the room.
Ceilidh is waiting for a drone.
No pitch yet
— · Sound a tenor or the bass
Sound a drone. The meter will say which way to move the tuning slide.
When two drones sound together, their beats show up here.
One tenor is already in tune. The other follows this slider. Drag it to the middle and the meter, the beats, and Ceilidh should all settle.
Demo and by-ear use this slider. If the phone is on silent, these tones stay quiet until silent mode is off or the volume is up.
Chanter low A
Tenor drones tune to half of this. The bass tunes to a quarter. Default is 480 Hz.
Play a steady low A for 2 seconds. The page locks whatever pitch it hears.
Order of tuning
Which way to slide
The top section is the tuning slide. Slide the top section up. A longer drone sounds lower. Slide the top section down. A shorter drone sounds higher.
Green is within 3 cents. Amber is within 10. Past that the meter is red. When two drones are sounding, beats slowing means getting closer. No wobble means locked.
By-ear mode
Off until you turn it on. It plays a reed-like reference: a tenor at low A / 2 and a bass at low A / 4, made on this device when you tap the button. Match your drones to it by ear.
Use one earbud for the reference drone, so you can still hear your pipes. The tuner asks for the phone's microphone when it can see a headset, but iOS can still switch to the earbud mic.
Privacy
Microphone audio is analyzed on your device only. Nothing is sent or saved. Echo cancellation, noise suppression, and automatic gain stay off, so the phone does not treat a drone like a voice.