Instrument tuners

This is a small collection of tips about instrument tuning tasks for which it could sometimes be useful to use software other than Audacity (even though you might use Audacity for most of your audio creation and editing).

You can easily tune an instrument with a computer, a sound input such as microphone or line-in and the following software:

• GTune - Windows
  Free VST Tuner.

• Digital Guitar Tuner - Windows
  Free, 27 tuning types.

• Audio Tuner v0.7 - Windows
  Free (only supports microphone input). Can tune acoustic guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, violin, piano, banjo, mandolin, autoharp, 'cello.

• FREE Guitar Tuner - Mac OS X
  Free.

• various shareware regular and strobe tuners - Mac OS X

• GuiTuner - Linux
  Free, guitar tuner for Linux.

• KGuitune - Linux
  Free tuner for guitar and other instruments.

There are many online guides to guitar tuning, for example this one.

Also see this tutorial on how to use Audacity's Plot Spectrum feature for instrument tuning. This is an archived backup of a now deleted page and some images are missing.