[sdiy] DIY strobe tuner?

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Paul Perry" <pfperry at melbpc.org.au>
Subject: RE: [sdiy] DIY strobe tuner?
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:54:23 +1100
Message-ID: <002601c8816f$5b153a90$8501a8c0 at ice9>

> One might wonder why, in this day and age, one would want a motorized disk
> strobe tuner. Here is one argument I found in an advertisement:
> 
> "The strobe display is driven directly by the input signal from the musical
> instrument. All other tuners except a rotating disk strobe tuner must
> digitally process the signal using a microprocessor. There is zero lag
> between changes to the tuning of the instrument and the display."
> 
> I'm pretty sure a universal motor isn't going to be synchronous, BTW.

I'm pretty sure that there is a sufficiently simple solution with analogs and
a few simple digitals that can do the trick.

The issue really remains, what user interface is being preferred?

Cheers,
Magnus