Pro Edition

For professional piano tuners

For the masters of the tuning hammer.

pianoscope pro combines the features of pianoscope standard with additional functions that make the work of tuning professionals easier. It differs significantly from conventional professional tuning programs. Check out the flexible software for iPhone & iPad.

Fast measurement of inharmonicity

Determine the inharmonicity of an instrument reliably and in no time with pianoscope. For a rough tuning it is sufficient to measure twelve notes which only takes about one second per note. With poorly scaled pianos, however, it is worthwhile to measure the entire range. Even this you have completed after about two minutes . Now you can use the time gained for fine-tuning or for other customers.

Tuning curve & styles

Conventional programs determine the required stretch similar to piano tuners working aurally. They start with a temperament octave and go outward from there with fixed intervals. The disadvantage is that you, as a tuner, have to determine which intervals are suitable for the partial structure of an individual instrument.
With pianoscope, you only have to decide which intervals should generally be as pure as possible and choose the appropriate style. With thousands of tests, which would be impossible for a human, the program now searches for a tuning curve that optimally meets your wishes.

Individual interval weights

If you want more control over the result, you can easily edit the existing styles. Here, you specify which intervals pianoscope will prefer when searching for an optimal tuning. You assign percentage weights to fourths, fifths, octaves, twelfths, double octaves, nineteenths and triple octaves and can directly observe how your choice affects the tuning curve.

Deviation curves

Before you tune, check how well you can realize your interval wishes with an instrument. The deviation curves show you in detail how free of beating the most important partial tone combinations can be tuned in different ranges. Here you can also put weights on individual partial pairs of an interval and see immediately how the curves change. Their color intensity indicates what share of the sound an interval has in the respective ranges. pianoscope takes this into account when calculating the tuning.

Precise Feedback

Once the tuning curve has been calculated, pianoscope helps you to transfer it to the instrument in any order you like. It automatically detects which notes you are tuning – faster than traditional apps – and gives you intuitive, graphical feedback.

Just keep tuning until the red line appears in the middle of the scale. Then the current string has reached its calculated target. Alternatively you can use the strobe. When it comes to rest, the note is perfectly tuned.

Automatic note detection

When you strike a key on the piano, pianoscope reliably detects which note it is and automatically switches to the corresponding tuning target.
However, if your instrument is out of tune by more than 50 cents, this can not work. You can then switch off the automatic function and select the keys manually. This is also recommended in loud environments.

Partial spectrum

pianoscope can also show the relative strengths of the first ten partials above the keyboard. Now you can visually analyze, for example, in which partials false beats occur and how the spectrum behaves across the compass. Each of the orange bars assigns a partial to a musical pitch.

Pitch raising

pianoscope also helps you to pitch-raise strongly detuned pianos. To do this, specify the position of the bass bridge and the treble struts and play a sample of notes over the entire range. If you have just analyzed the inharmonicity before, you can carry over the measured values and save valuable time here as well. The app now calculates the over-pull for each note from the expected deformation of the soundboard and plate.

Over-pulling

Now you can start the pitch raise. Tune all notes in sequence from bottom to top. With markers, pianoscope shows you individually for each note how much you have to over-pull to compensate for the deformation of the soundboard. Pre-set limits help to prevent strings from getting damaged. After the end of tuning, all notes should be close to the desired tuning target.

Documents

Managing your customers and instruments is no problem with pianoscope. You create a separate document for each piano, containing all the information about its tuning. You can also organize these documents in folders.
To share a document between several iPhones or iPads, just drop it into a cloud service like iCloud Drive or Dropbox in the document browser or the Files app.

What Customers Say

  • pianoscope is revolutionizing Electronic Tuning Device apps. It is easy to set up and will quickly generate a professional level tuning curve that navigates the break better than any device currently on the market. For those with a trained ear there are ways to adjust the tuning to exactly what your ear wants to hear. This app also has incredible tools for learning to hear partials and training yourself to tune aurally. I highly recommend pianoscope to anyone who is serious about producing high quality professional tunings.

    Nathan Mills
    Registered Piano Technician, USA

  • Now the hot rehearsal phase for the Mozart opera Don Giovanni begins with the sets on the revolving stage, with lights and orchestra and, since yesterday, also with an 18th century fortepiano. I hope it stabilizes in the course of the rehearsal phase. pianoscope was worth its weight in gold last night! I tuned the instrument several times for two hours during the hustle and bustle of setting up, with scene rehearsals by the director and the lighting team. Impossible without proper software!

    Frank Schick
    Piano Technician, Germany

  • I just wanted to say how pleased I am with pianoscope's pitch raise. I have a lot of school tunings which go up 16 cents at the crossover during the summer and down again in the winter. The pitch raise mostly ends up within ±1 cent which is very good indeed. Today I tuned an Ibach upright which is very sensitive to temperature and humidity. I tuned it a year ago and today it was 20 cents sharp in the lowest octave and a half and a very even 10 cents sharp all the way up. It isn't often I find such an even rise. The point I want to make is that the pitch raise, or rather lowering, resulted in the same excellent result as I mentioned above. A tidy up in fine tune mode and a nice result.

    David Wheeler
    Piano Technician, Norway

  • For three years, pianoscope has been accompanying me in my profession. Although I am a trained piano technician with 45 years of professional experience, I no longer want to miss this tool.

    Burkhard Ebers
    Piano Technician, Germany

  • I’ve been using pianoscope for the last year. It has enabled me to tune pianos more accurately than ever before in 36 years. The display is easy to interpret. There are no useless frills and jumpy icons to distract from the job at hand. Customer service is excellent and responsive. Cost is reasonable. No other app can match it because it uses the latest technology. Others are outdated by decades.

    Sheetbug
    App Store Customer, USA

  • This app is incredibly powerful and full of features that will further enhance the skills of any top piano technician. My previous app was the excellent Verituner, but pianoscope far exceeds that. The first time I used it to tune my 1915 Steinway D concert grand gave purer results than Verituner ever gave me. My unisons never sounded so perfect, and the whole piano almost seemed to have a 3D transparency to its sound. A selling point was the Partial Spectrum that will aid me significantly for voicing my hammers. It reveals the composition of the tone, and will be invaluable in guiding the protocols of voicing to enhance the tonal response and beauty. Special graphs for inharmonicity, tuning curves, interval influences further help the technician to improve knowledge and skills. Although this app is very new to me, and my experience with it is just getting started, I highly recommend it as the leading choice of piano tuning apps.

    Vintage Steinway Artisan
    App Store Customer, USA

  • Thank you for inventing the first software in history that will accurately tune a piano. Truly in tune. I am 74 and a lifelong musician. Your software is truly revolutionary in piano tuning technology. My tuning has been praised for many years. Now it is 10 times more accurate and pleasing to the sophisticated pianist. 

    Roger Shaffer
    Registered Piano Technician, USA

  • I have been a professional piano technician for over twenty years and I’ve finally found a tuning app that I am very comfortable with. This app is so well built. Everything about it is intuitive and easy to look at while I’m tuning a piano. Many of the other tuning apps have a cluttered screen with unimportant information that distracts me while I’m tuning. I’m not sure what math is used to evaluate the inharmonicity, but the tuning curves that are created are very good. The notes stand up to all the beat tests that I can use. If the tuning curve needs adjusted it is very easy to manipulate manually as needed. Again, it is just a well built app that instills confidence in my tuning when I use it.

    Mike's Workbench
    App Store Customer, USA

  • It’s been an interesting week for me - I’ve been tuning professionally for just over a year so still very much a newcomer. I’m fortunate to have some terrific mentors and a busy schedule to test and improve my tunings. I delivered my first concert tunings this week at St Paul’s cathedral in London. It was time sensitive and important that I delivered my best possible tunings as they will be played in services and concerts. So I chose to use CyberTuner which has been my constant companion since starting tuning, familiar and reliable. But after a week using pianoscope, I can safely say that I will be purchasing pianoscope pro and never look back.

    Henry
    Piano Technician, United Kingdom

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