I am new to these forums and freely admit to being a total newbie in all things computer based music ...enthusiastic but a total newbie none the less.
 
Can anyone recommend a good tuner application for X2?  I am look for something that can check the pitch of samples played through Kontakt (for example) and let me see if they are in tune or not.
 
I have a basic piano track in a MIDI file which sounds pretty good played back through some of the Kontakt piano libraries.  I am now trying to add a simple bass line using the Kontakt Rickenbacker library but some of the bass notes sound terribly out of tune?
 
I am looking for something that can check each note sample and tell me how far out (or in) tune they are….
 
I did find something called K-Tuner which is supposed to show up as a Plugin…I installed it but cannot see it in Sonar X2.
 
Does anyone have any similar experience of out of tune sample libraries?  It seems such a basic thing to me that I am think that perhaps  I am making some fundamental mistake somewhere that I do not realise?
 
Any help would be very much appreciated!!
 
I am running Win 7 Ultimate 64.
 
Thanks in advance!
 

Sonar used to come with a Tuner plug-in, but I don't believe it works with 64-bit Sonar. 

Thanks for the input daveny5....I am running teh 64 bit so I will continue to search.....
 
Is it common for a sample library to be out of tune...seems a bit odd to me?....then again it is probably something  I am doing...?

Now..this is odd...tried doing an export to MP3...and on the MP3 the bass is in tune?????

what is going on here?  help!

This is a known problem that has been discussed in this forum. There are a few patches (mostly bass, I believe) in Dimension Pro that are not in tune. Cakewalk is aware of it, but has not taken any action to resolve it. The workaround is not to use those patches. Those are the only ones I know of that are not in tune. 

daveny5


This is a known problem that has been discussed in this forum. There are a few patches (mostly bass, I believe) in Dimension Pro that are not in tune. Cakewalk is aware of it, but has not taken any action to resolve it. The workaround is not to use those patches. Those are the only ones I know of that are not in tune. 

daveny 5...thanks....I appreciate the input..thought I was going mad for a bit there......!

Cakewalk is aware of it, but has not taken any action to resolve it. The workaround is not to use those patches. 

I love that about Cakewalk.
Put out a a new feature to get people to buy your product. 
Ok so it has a few bugs, no problem, I'm sure they'll fix that soon.
5 versions and 100's of complaints later still no fix.
Well that's the way it appears sometimes anyway.


Mike


[not really a rant, just an observation]

Yeah, and beware the Dim Pro patches that blow your system up.

However, I believe peterjung is having problems with samples from Kontakt.

I believe peterjung is having problems with samples from Kontakt.

True enough.


My coffee doesn't appear to be working just yet.
I saw Dave NY mention that Dim-Pro has the same issue and my short attention span took over.
Sorry all.


Mike

There's a lot of free Tuner VST's out there.

Melda has one that is 64bit in their Free Bundle, and there are a bunch of freeware ones, but the only ones of those I have been able to find are 32bit, and most didn't work very well. 

I use the Melda one now and the one in Guitar Rig 4 (but the GR4 one is not free).