Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer

(tautme.github.io)

24 points | by adm4 3 days ago ago

9 comments

  • jmusall 2 hours ago ago

    Fun idea and also I didn't know that websites could get access to my accelerometer data. However for me the sample frequency is 50 Hz which is way too low to measure even the lowest string pitch (E2, about 82 Hz).

    • hgomersall an hour ago ago

      If you know you have a single frequency close to an actual frequency of interest, you can use the fact you know you're in an aliased band to get a precise frequency estimate.

      • jonathrg 34 minutes ago ago

        Presumably there is an antialiasing low pass filter somewhere before JS gets to the data. I have a similar sample rate and it certainly didn't work at all for me.

  • adm4 3 days ago ago

    guitar detuner that uses accelerometer instead of microphone, it doesn't really work, but amazing to see how sensitive they are.

    • tgv 2 hours ago ago

      It also shows that it can leak all kinds of other information.

      • codethief 2 hours ago ago

        …which is why both Android & iOS put high-frequency access to the accelerometer behind an additional permission AFAIR.

  • aa-jv 2 hours ago ago

    Anyone got a handle on the algorithm required to do this? I've got a pocketable accelerometer-enabled device I'd like to try to implement this on..