App Profile: Well Tempered

PipeOrganist

Rating: 1/5

This is a joke! It does not give you the difference between sharps and flats in the scales, for the comparison purposes, and the tone quality is cheap and distorted. Actually, the entire design of this application is cheap and overly simplistic. When dealing with different temperaments, you must consider all flats, sharps, double-flats, and double-sharps within each system scale, even for comparison purposes. I don't understand why on earth there is not a single professional music app in the world! Are we becoming culture-less in today's society?

Gunther Spass

Rating: 2/5

This application is fabulous conceptually. I'm a viola da gamba player and having access to temperament tunings and A-415 is great. The corresponding stand alone tuner with temperaments costs about $200. It also comes highly recommended by some noteworthy professional gamba players. Like one of them says "tune by EAR not by EYE." However, two caveats. The volume is a little soft for real use. Having some amplification is necessary to make it loud enough to tune. This is fixable with a separate amplifier/speakers. Worse though is that this software which worked just fine under OS Version 3 doesn't produce sound on my iTouch under Version 4. It would be nice if it were upgraded because it's basically non-functional in its current state. Too bad - it was a nice app.

Corbin_S

Rating: 5/5

As someone who tunes professionally for a living, this app is a godsend for harpsichords and clavichord Tuning. Generally I tune by fork and I can do many historic temperaments that way, but with the pitch pipe on this; it is a whole new level with so many more options. Love this app! And let me just also note: the interface is so easy to use. Perfection all the way around.