Chromatic Tuner and Metronome and other Musical Tuners for Mac OS X 10.8

I was looking for a simply tuning app that a band teacher could use to play a note/tone that the band could use to tune there instruments.  There were a few paid apps in the Mac App Store but after some that work  and are free.

TapNTune (Version 1.3)  This app works well and has built in metronome, can generate tones (fork tuner) and can use microphone to tune and instrument.  Price is free.  Couple of useful hints with this program,  turn the volume up on the Tuner, also check the Extra | Audio Preferences if you want to change sound output to an Apple Tv.   Great range of notes that you can generate a tone for.

 

Here is a simple Guitar style tuner that works with the microphone.

TuneIt.¬¨‚Ć This app doesn’t have anything special but does work pretty well.

Very small program but works.

Lastly a Linux program called TuxGuitar.  This program has a lot more to offer then just a tuner but does have one built in under tools.

Note this version of TuxGuitar is 64 bit and will work on latest version of Mac OS X 10.8.5  (32 Bit version does not)

Tuxguitar 64 bit Mac 10.8.x

Tux is probably the most full featured of the programs but its tuning portion is pretty basic – but works.

 

Tux Guitar Website – http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/

Tap N Tune Website – http://jnote.org/47