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Is it actually possible that in the not-so-distant future that we may no longer have need for traditional guitar tuners?
That’s what Gibson Guitars seems to think and based on the trend over the past decade it looks like this is a technology that is here to stay.
Like it or not – and trust me when I say that there are plenty of guitarists who don’t like this – automatic guitar tuners are slowly being adopted by guitarists on stage and around the world. Is the death of the guitar tuner near?
Auto-Tune Pro adds automatic key and scale detection with the Auto-Key plug-in, a Classic Mode algorithm which brings back the celebrated “Auto-Tune 5 sound,” real-time MIDI Parameter Control, and ARA (Audio Random Access) functionality for closer integration with supported host applications. Aug 04, 2011 Our guitar tuning guide plays each string 8 times over a period of 16 seconds, which should give you plenty of time to correctly tune your guitar. The tuning follows the standard tuning.
History of Automatic Guitar Tuners
Automatic guitar tuners aren’t a new technology.
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- With Auto-Tune for Guitar, tuning up your guitar is a breeze. You can tune all six strings instantly with the push of a button (no motors or gears required). Simply strum the strings, trigger String Tuning via a button or foot switch, and your guitar is instantly in tune. It's really that simple.
Earlier this year I reviewed the Roadie automatic guitar tuner that uses a bluetooth connection with your phone to turn the tuning pegs on your guitar with very little human intervention.
All you have to do is hold the device to the tuning peg, pluck the string and watch the tuning peg turn. It was developed through funding from Kickstarter and has received generally high praise since it was first released in 2013.
But as innovative as the Roadie tuner is, it isn’t the first attempt at automatic guitar tuning. Back in 2005, a German-based company called Tronical started manufacturing an interesting piece of hardware that completely replaced all of a guitar’s tuning heads.
With a simple strum of your guitar, all six strings would get tuned in unison. Within 10 seconds. And you could change your tuning with a few presses of a button.
Obviously the technology didn’t take over the guitar world back in 2005, but the company, which calls its technology “revolutionary,” kept plugging away. Seems like the patience has paid off.
Gibson Adopts Automatic Tuner Technology
To the surprise of many, Gibson guitars announced that their 2015 line of electric guitars would all come with automatic tuners installed.
They call their tuners the Gibson GForce and if you think it looks similar to the Tronical automatic tuner, you’d be right. This latest move by Gibson was done in cooperation with Tronical using their tried-and-true technology.
It is yet to be seen whether other guitar makers will follow suit, but having a big name like Gibson promoting automatic tuning might prove to be a turning point for this trend. Heck, even magazines like GuitarPlayer are singing the praises of automatic tuners.
The Death of Traditional Tuners?
NPR did an interesting piece on this move by Gibson and the reaction by guitarists in Nashville. Seems that not everybody is on board with automatic tuners.
Most of them tend to echo the same sentiment I have when it comes to automatic tuning: If you’re a guitarist and you never learn how to tune your guitar by ear, you’re never going to learn how to play the guitar.
This is just my personal opinion, however. The truth is that I hate traditional tuners as well. They’re cumbersome, they need batteries (which always seems to go dead when I need them most) and they don’t always tune with as much accuracy as my own ear. If traditional tuners as we know them die…I won’t mourn their loss.
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Some of us have one big advantage over other guitarists, however: we’ve been training our ears over the past couple decades to not need a tuner.
Tuners won’t die as long as their are beginner guitarists. And there will always be beginner guitarists.
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Your Opinion?
This is your chance to share what you think:
- Will automatic tuners become standard on all guitars within the next decade?
- Would you own an automatic guitar tuner?
- Do you think traditional guitar tuners are still necessary?
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