Show actual tuning's interval plot in tuning styles window

Abraham Lee

I've become quite familiar with the Tuning Styles menu and plots and have wondered, as I'm tuning, what my current deviations are doing to the final tuning. Sure, I've got the target tuning style I'm working toward, but let's be honest that almost no one hits 0.0 cents for every note, me included. I would be very interested to see what the resultant interval plot looks like if I choose to leave a note a bit sharp or flat from target (say, to account for seasonal differences and such) instead of what the result will be if I'm perfectly on with the target tuning style.

So, some thoughts on what that might look like:

A menu option (like "Show Actual Pitches") in the drop-down menu
Either have it toggle between the target tuning style plot (what it is now) to the actual tuning plot based on the inharmonicity and measured pitches, or overlay the actual tuning plot on top of the target (yes, this will likely get messy quickly depending on how many interval lines are displayed, but it is what it is)

P.S. I've wanted a similar thing in the partials plot, to not only show what the target should be, but what I'm currently at if I leave it as-is.

Frank Illenberger

Abraham Lee Thank you for the detailed description of your idea and feature request. In the current version of pianoscope, you can already show the actually tuned pitches in the tuning view. You need to activate them via the menu in the tuning view. But pianoscope does not allow to directly show partial deviation curves based on these actual pitches. But it would totally make sense. I think, I can add this function in a future update. In the current version of pianoscope, you can achieve what you want, but it is a bit more cumbersome. When you have finished tuning, you can record the resulting pitches as a static tuning. When you then activate this static tuning in the tuning curve view, you can analyse check its partial deviation curves.

Abraham Lee

Aha! That's true! I didn't think about going about it that way to show the effect of the current tuning. A bit roundabout, but possible, nonetheless. I'll have to give it a try!