[sdiy] DIY strobe tuner?

[Amos]

I tune a lot of analog synths and greatly prefer the strobe-tuner
interface over any other, particularly over the superficially-similar
virtual strobe tuners.  My reasons are the immediacy and very high
resolution, and also the unique way in which the strength of the
harmonics present in the signal are represented in the different
octave bands of the strobe disk.  It's a very good UI with high
information density.

My only complaint is that the motor interferes a bit with my oscilloscope...

-Amos

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Magnus Danielson
<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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