Tuner module idea?

I’ve always wondered why there aren’t more tuner modules with a big clear easy to read display showing the FREQUENCY (not more) of the oscillator or LFO plugged into it. The only ones are the NYSTHI modules Tunathor, Hot tuna, Gran tunismo. But none of them have large easy to read displays, they are quite small. It would be cool to have a module thats customizable by size and display kind of like a notepad module, but i’d be happy with anything. the Tunathor module is good but i only need the display, and its too small.

Anyone wanna make one? :innocent: :cowboy_hat_face:

What is wrong with Gran Tunismo, I can see it from miles away …it’s A4.

3 Likes

It’s just way too big. And I use frequency not NOTE. I’d love something more reasonably sized that shows FREQUENCY. I have some dense patches that fit nicely on my screen and gran tunismo takes up too much space and is mostly white or other info I don’t need.

In a world where there’s sooooo many modules that do the same thing, it’s surprising there’s barely any tuner modules at all.

Gimme a Gran Tunismo that’s half the size or less, with a big frequency readout. Let me choose the background color and text color.

when you use ctrl + F4 (with mouse over the module) and F4
you can switch between the size of any module
not only for the gran tunismo

5 Likes

Oooh, I wasn’t aware of the module zoom feature. Very handy.

It would be nice if there was a temporary zoom that you could back out and return to the previous zoom level and location. F4 always zooms to display the entire patch. I might submit a feature request. I haven’t figured out the full specs though. There are a few designs I am thinking about.

4 Likes

that is exactly what I would wish too:
a ctrl+F4
and the reverse action maybe by ctrl +F5

2 Likes

Did someone shine a bat signal?

It’s more of a scope module… it keeps the waveform centered on zero-crossing and scaled to 2x wavelengths.

6 Likes

How does it detect the fundamental of a complex waveform? By measuring the time between zero crossings?

Well. Yeah zero-crossing detection seems to work the best. I compared it to HotTuna and the ilk, and I think it’s more stable for most things. You can give it a test go if you want.

I had a FFT version option, but the precision wasn’t very good at all… so I need to rethink that.

1 Like

Fundamental detection is classically a very difficult problem. You have my sympathy :wink:

Yeah… it’s very non-trivial! Tips welcome. :slight_smile:

Ben has GOTO that has 10 slots you can save, and even smooth transition and key shortcuts!

1 Like

this module looks awesome. i’d love it if i could replace the blue display of the waveform with a large frequency readout in blue, just like the waveform, but in a larger font than the current frequency readout below the waveform. possible to add a context menu option for that in the future perhaps?

just tried to use the module but can’t find it!!! please let us know when its ready for prime time!!

i wonder if you could do a “signals” style module as well, with a bunch of frequency readouts all stacked on top of eachother too.

I tired it here, but it doesn’t work,
I can’t save any states on the buttons,
they only stay red
:thinking:

maybe Ben @stoermelder can help

It’s a 2 step process first click the button till it turns red then click the module you want to zoom to.

2 Likes

Stroke is still my fave way to zoom levels. I use alt Z, alt A, alt Q for “zoom” “all” and “quarter”. Goto used to go near where I focused, glad it works well now.

2 Likes

Coming Soon™ , I have an update to pachde1 in progress with a new module that implements “Zoom to selection”.

Soo. I got it working sooooo perfectly nicely using autocorrelation, but now it likes to barf out giant spikes of CPU every few seconds… Go figure! :stuck_out_tongue: But I did get it working on wavefolded stuff, and now I know why there are very few tuner modules for VCV!

I have no idea how the GranTunismo works inside… unfortunately it’s closed source.

1 Like

Yeah, autocorrelation is I guess the “gold standard” for that problem. Perhaps for this application it doesn’t matter if the cpu usage is “bad”. I don’t know how “guitar tuner” apps on phones work so well… don’t know how they work. Anyway, cool that you are hacking away at that!

1 Like