Drumtune PRO | Drum Tuner

Since using the Drumtune Pro app, my drums have sounded their absolute best. I can select pitches for each drum, even intervals, etc. plus store it all. I especially like the organizational functions for creating various tuning presets. I create my own, but you can download more options. I play Gretsch USA Customs, drums known for “That Great Gretsch Sound”. This app helps me get that sound I listen for. Once you learn how the program works, it becomes a more and more useful tool. It takes time to learn and understand what it does and why. It’s great when I change heads and need to re-tune to the same fundamental pitch. Fast. UPDATE from customer: Why drummers should jump on the Drumtune Pro app: I just bought a second set of Gretsch USA drums and used the Drumtune Pro to tune them up. I’ve used the app for many months, having discarded other tuners that weren’t nearly as useful. Having already learned how to effectively use the app (users must understand overtones), I was able to tune up the new kit in minutes! I used the same tonal settings as my other kit to compare the results. A perfect match! This app is as good as $100 tuners using similar technology and saving me 90% of the cost.

It’s hit or miss with his app. Pretty disappointed that I spent 8 bucks on it honestly. Switching from resonant to batter head it lags and the hz reading is often wrong. It could definitely use a little revamping to make this a bit more user friendly. Maybe even add in some preset charts for tuning depending on what style kit you are using. What I mean by this is that, at least for me, I was unable to find a preset that matched my style kit. So although there are presets in the app, many times they aren’t helpful if it does not specifically match your set up. It would be nice if I could type in my exact style kit with all dimensions and the app would automatically produce ideal tones for the specific set up based on the style I am playing. Not sure if that makes sense to everyone. Kind of hard to explain. Lots and lots of potential but not quite there yet. Since I got a response I did edit this comment and added another star because editors respond and offer ways to help and because small bugs are being worked out. However, I have watched the videos provided and followed along with exactly what was described and yet still encounter the same problems when attempting to tune any of my drums. Not so much that it lags anymore now that I updated it but it still does a poor job recognizing pitches and moving you on to the next step. If you try and lock on to a specific tone the app doesn’t capture and will have you doing circles trying to find out why it won’t go to the correct preset hz. Kind of confusing to describe. Easier to just tune the good ole fashion way which unfortunately is exactly what I end up having to do anyway because this gets very time consuming. Also, You can not save any data relating to the brand of drums you have nor style heads. When i tried to put in my exact set up the app fails every time I got to the point of selecting my brand kit and then erases everything I had built up until then. You also can not download any of the additional packages for drum heads. When I try and do this it fails and shuts off completely.

Love all the customization. Entering your kit details is cool. I do wish when entering the fundamental for my kit that it would prompt to measure what it actually is instead of give me a keyboard. Hard to match up a piano sound to a real life drum... found this impossible to guess. I found that you can specify short sustain and it’ll compute res and batter differences. That’s awesome. Love the idea of preset kits. Haven’t had success yet, got my res and batter tuned but then the fundamental is off by 5hz or so.. not sure if that’s normal, wish the ui would guide me more there, maybe a (?) I could click on to learn more... really really wish there was a preview of how the presets sounds so that I even know if I’m doing it right. This app is hard for beginners it doesn’t lead/ teach you what to do, or the concepts. Sprinkle in some more (?) things to tap, explaining why a fundamental is different than res and batter, and how those combine, and how they reduce sustain, etc... but what the app is accomplishing is ambitious and exactly what I want. With more time spend on (?) help text, more info, previews, etc I think could really make it accessible for beginners too. Took me a while to understand the lock feature, was confusing to me maybe because it is hard to tell when it is on, apart from knowing I pressed it, and what that exactly means. This is an area that requires reading the manual which is buried someplace else. But I wish simply had a (?) next to it giving me the relevant details instead, it would be more intuitive and helpful to point me to a brief explaination and then more info to link me to the manual would work well.