LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. It's accurate, easy to use, and highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars, it can now be used to tune other instruments.

It looks like an analogue tuner, with a gauge indicating the relative shift to a certain note, found automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency.

Features

This application has the following features:

• Accurate.
• Easy to use. Just plug in your instrument and run tuner.
• Highly configurable via GUI. It's possible to change any parameter while the program is running, without editing any file.
• It works in an automatic way. It isn't necessary specify the note to tune; the program guesses it.
• It's free software. It has GPL license.
• Tuning other instruments than guitars is possible. Since this program guesses the note you are playing, it can be used to tune a piano, a bass, a violin, etc.

Authors

LINGOT was originally developed by Ibán Cereijo-Graña and Jairo Chapela-Martínez.

You can follow the activity of this project visiting its news page at Savannah. New releases and features are now published there. Also it's a good idea to subscribe to the news feed.

The tuner's main window.

Config dialog — audio input device selection.

Config dialog — settings.

Config dialog — basic parameters.

Config dialog — advanced parameters.

Please, read the file README included in the tarball for installation and use notes.

Source code

Click on the following link to download the source code of lingot: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lingot/

You can also get the latest release of the sources from the Mercurial repository. The command for getting the files is the following:

hg clone http://hg.sv.gnu.org/hgweb/lingot

Binary distributions

There are some precompiled packages available. Some linux-based distros have adopted LINGOT to be part of their software repositories.

• The Debian distribution and other derived distros includes a precompiled version of LINGOT. Thanks to Niv Sardi Altivanik.

System Requirements

Your system must satisfy the following requisites to run LINGOT properly:

• A «modest» computer running GNU/Linux. (Pentium at 200 MHz or similar should be enough.)
• A sound card with line-in or microphone input.
• Jack, ALSA or OSS Audio support.
• GTK+ library, version 2.0 or above.

There are some features we want to develop:

• Multilanguage support.
• Porting to other operating systems than GNU/Linux.

You can get more information about LINGOT visiting the project's page at Savannah. We encourage you to subscribe to the mailing lists we have created — you can expose there any question, suggestion or anything else. We appreciate any feedback and/or collaboration you might want to do.