Add a high-precision frequency analyzer and tuning tool to your production arsenal with The Snail Absolute Tuning Software from IrcamLAB. The powerful software offers musicians, engineers, and sound designers an intuitive interface with Music and Tuner modes that display sounds in three different viewing modes. This innovative real-time visualization of the sound lets you clearly pinpoint unwanted harmonics, overtones, and partials—allowing you to tune an instrument or your voice with unprecedented levels of precision and accuracy.
The processing software is available as an electronic download and can be used as in standalone mode or as a plug-in inside your DAW. The Snail is compatible with the AAX, AU, and VST3 platforms for Mac and Windows computers.
- Music Mode is the most suitable to view your music with, if for instance it contains complex polyphonic content.
- Tuner Mode is the preferred to help tune an instrument as it increases the resolution of the analysis.
- Snail View provides a representation of the fundamental frequencies and all related harmonics or overtones in real time. Sound is displayed as blobs along a spiralled view from the low frequencies in the center to higher frequencies (and their respective musical notes) up the spiral GUI.
- Zoomed Tuner View displays the hexagonal shape which rotates and slows down as you zero down to green on the exact reference frequency. This display is the closest view to a traditional tuner while being incredibly more precise.
- Sonogram View offers a more standard representation of the sound spectrum over time (vertically), highlighting the prevailing frequencies. This view provides more detail of the frequencies' energy for analysis.
- Simple intuitive interface
- Ultimate accuracy in tuning
- Different combinations of views available
- Audio player with waveform display to allow analysis of any song or sound
- Live input for tuning of external sources
- Tuner mode or Music mode
- Adjustable Tuning Reference pitch
- Transposing feature
- Display of phase relationships possible
- Hz information display
- User adjustable colour schemes
- Click and Tune
- Color grid option
- Show grid option