[sdiy] VCO Accuracy

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 31 December 2007 04:29, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2007-12-30 17:18 -0600, Scott wrote:
> > I'm never happy when I tune my VCO's.  I always want the range of what
> > is in tune to be as big as possible.  Then when tuning several at once,
> > I want the deviation to be as close as possible between all the vco's.
> > I just keep at it until I'm about to go mad from listening to the
> > constant buzzing and beating, then stop and stagger away and try to
> > regain my sanity.
>
> You don't have to tune by ear. There are very precise digital
> frequency counters. The bench ones only display the frequency in
> Hz but some of the software ones show note number and offset in
> cents.

First I've heard of that.  Anybody know of any software ones that run under 
linux?

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