LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. It's accurate, easy to use, and highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars, its configurability gives it a more general character.

It looks like an analogic tuner, with a gauge indicating the relative shift to a certain note —found automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency—, indicating that note and its frequency.

The note will be found automatically, since the program hasn't any manual function mode (indicating the note to tune manually), for mantaining its general purpose.

We recommend using the tuner in conjunction with a sound mixer for selecting the desired recording source and the signal recording levels.

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 hosted at Savannah. Just type this command:

hg clone http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/lingot/

There is also a CVS repository for the source code. The command for getting the files is the following:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/lingot co 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 includes now a precompiled version of LINGOT. Thanks to Niv Sardi Altivanik.
• Also for Ubuntu there is a precompiled package. Thanks to João Luís Marques Pinto.

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 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 (any volunteer?).

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.