Pianoscope 3 Has Been Officially Released

Frank Illenberger

After two months of public beta testing, pianoscope 3 is now officially live on the App Store! You’ve all done an incredible job with testing and feedback — I truly couldn’t have done this without you. Thank you so much!

Your beta version will remain functional for another ten days, so be sure to download the App Store release in time.

andybiochem

Congratulations & well done Frank! What a work of art.

MilanDka

Hey Frank,
I don’t know what happened, but after the last app update, Pianoscop takes a very long time to switch to the next tuned note – 90% of the time, you have to play it multiple times before it moves on.

It happens in the lowest octave.

Device: iPhone SE 2020, iOS 18.4., iP 11, iOS 18.4

Milan

Frank Illenberger

MilanDka Thanks to your recording I could locate and fix the issue. The update 3.0.2 should be available within 24 hours in the App Store.

Frank Illenberger

Can you a screen recording with sound of such a situation?

Rick

It is working for me
Rick

navindra

I had to tune my upright piano yesterday and was delighted to discover pianoscope 3.0 is out!

I shared my experience with pianoscope 3.0 on PianoTell.

The two features I was interested in didn't really pan out for me:

All in all, while my piano sounds nice after tuning it with V3 (despite using the wrong tuning style), it always did, and I'm very much neutral to cold on this change. I sway a bit negative because I have no idea what AI means exactly in this context or how it's implemented. Is it deterministic or non-deterministic? Is it farmed out to the cloud? Will the results be repeatable?

I had no trouble tuning the piano while the TV was playing using the multi-mic feature. The app correctly prioritized the piano sound most of the time. However, my son's singing still throws it off. My son sounds nothing like a piano, but he's always been able to throw off pianoscope since day one... and the multi-mic feature didn't help at all with that. Sadly, overall, this is a huge regression from my contact mic. I do have the option of getting multiple contact mics and seeing if the multi-mic feature can take better take advantage of that setup.

I'm super happy to see so much investment in pianoscope! I never dreamed I'd be able to tune my own pianos and have them sound so good.

Frank Illenberger

navindra Dear Navindra, thank you for sharing your experience with the new version.

You raised a couple of questions on the AI used to calculate the tuning curves: The new tuning curve algorithm is deterministic and totally repeatable. The AI model I use is embedded inside pianoscope and nothing is farmed out to the cloud.

When using the built-in mics, you can make pianoscope more resilient against your son's voice if you turn off automatic key detection. Then you have to select the currently tuned note by hand, but pianoscope will then only focus on the partials of the selected note and ignore other frequencies.

Rick

I don’t understand why anyone would tune a piano in noisy circumstances but it did happen to me recently. I had to tune a piano in a school dining room (v3) at lunchtime! pianoscope did manage but I wasn’t pleased with the experience.
Rick