iDrumTune Pro is the world’s most advanced, accurate and intelligent system for assisting and educating on drum tuning – used by thousands of drummers all over the world. Now with Drum Kit Designer feature and detailed online tutorials.
Featured in Modern Drummer 'New and Notable' - July 2018
"an invaluable aid not only for drummers but also studio engineers and producers" - Sound on Sound Magazine
"I can’t recommend this app highly enough ... for the money, it is indispensable. It's simple, accurate, looks good, and the tuning information is worth the cost of the app alone." - www.mikedolbear.com
“***** I never knew I could have this much fun tuning drums!” – Adamrod (App Store review)
“***** Just tuned my first drum and this app is awesome!” – bburt85 (App Store review)
“***** Buy this app if you are a drummer!!!” Lildrummerboy (App Store review)
The original and most innovative electronic drum tuning app - iDrumTune Pro brings unrivalled accuracy and features that have never been possible before for assisting with drum tuning. Built by world experts in drums and musical acoustics, and backed up by a detailed online training course on Drum Sound and Drum Tuning.
iDrumTune Pro includes the following features:
* Pitch Tuning – to make your drums sing and allow you to play musical phrases around the kit
* Lug Tuning – to ensure that the drumhead is evenly tuned and gives a smooth and warm tone
* Resonant Head Tuning – to allow you to be sure that the two heads are working together and giving rich overtones
* Spectrum Analyzer – so you can really start to understand what frequencies are excited and heard when playing the drums
* Drum Kit Presets – so you can save and load your favourite tunings and share them with the world. Now also includes the interactive Drum Kit Designer feature.
* The Science of Drum Tuning – and extensive manual on the science and art of drum tuning and getting the best out of iDrumTune Pro
iDrumTune is the first and by far the most intelligent and accurate system for analyzing drum sounds and assisting tuning – developed by drummers, music producers and acoustics research Professors. iDrumTune provides you with a measurement of the drumhead vibration frequency, much in the same way to an acoustic guitar tuner which measures the vibration frequency of a guitar string. In Pitch Tuning mode, you simply hold the iPhone over the center of a drum, about 2-4 inches away, and strike the drum in the center.
The iDrumTune readout shows the recorded sound waveform and gives the strongest frequency recorded. There is also a tuning indicator bar which shows the drumhead tuning relative to musical notes, so iDrumTune can be used to ensure that your drums are in key with each other or the song you are playing. A frequency spectrum view also allows more detailed analysis and helps with tuning the drum at the lug positions.
iDrumTune provides advanced tuning features including an intelligent filter function, Lug Tuning mode and Resonant Head Tuning mode. The filter allows unwanted frequencies to be ignored by the analysis algorithm, whilst Lug Tuning mode offers the simplest and most innovative method for tuning an even frequency response at the lug positions on the drumhead.
The Preset Manager allows you to save all your favourite drum tunings and call them up when you are in the middle of the process. Drum kits can also be exported and imported, so you can share your favorite tuning setups and load new ones in from other drummers.
Drum Tuning isn’t easy, and drums don’t respond exactly the same way every time you hit them. For that reason, it's valuable to know a little about the science of drum tuning. iDrumTune includes a comprehensive text on the science of drums and drum tuning in order to help you get the best of iDrumTune and to become an expert drum tuner!
Watch the iDrumTune tutorial videos and read reviews on iDrumTune at www.idrumtune.com
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Is Drum Tuner free?
Drum Tuner is not free (it costs 9.99), however it doesn't contain in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Drum Tuner legit?
🤔 The Drum Tuner app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
First, as many reviews here have said, it really is worth reading the instructions/theory if you’re not already familiar with it. Having last played acoustic drums regularly over 20 years ago (only playing electronic since), I recently bought a second hand kit that had been unused for a while. This app has got it sounding really great and has been worth every penny. I use it regularly now to check the tuning before rehearsals and gigs and after replacing heads etc. Highly recommended.
Hit and miss
Firstly App is not intuitive - takes a while to figure out how to use. Secondly the readings aren’t consistent. I can see it has loads of good reviews. But it’s a bit of a joke for me, trying to tune the snare reso and goes from 200hz to 400 n’ something in same two hits. The tutorials for snare on YT tune the batter but not the reso and the comments point you to the manual. All in all you need to dedicate a lot of study and a few days or weeks to use this. Don’t expect good results with sn awful lot of effort.
Great app!
Great app, very useful for tuning the drums, rectifying the lugs’ tensions and experimenting with the batter and resonant heads relationship (Resonant Tuning Factory - RTF). Great communication as well. Highly recommended!
Very hit and miss
I’ve been using this app for about 3 weeks now, I regularly have it giving vastly different readings from 165hz to 425hz when hitting the drum in the same place while doing lug tuning. After doing this about 3 times the app crashes and reloads. It’s very frustrating. It’s time consuming enough to tune a drum , this app is supposed to help. At the moment it’s making it a longer and more frustrating process
Must have app
I use this all the time. I found it a little difficult at first but as my old physics teacher said ‘if all else fails read the instructions’. Seriously though, read the theory first then have a play. One you’ve used it a few times it becomes very easy to use, relatively fast and, I’ve found, eliminates all the nasty overtones - I.e. no need to use tape to dampen the drums anymore!
IDrum tune Pro
Excellent App very user friendly with lots of tips
Excellent theory
I haven’t tried tuning with the app yet, but if it’s used at Abbey Road Studios just on a phone then it must be good.
The information about the science of tuning including the fundamental frequency ranges for each piece of the kit is worth the 5 stars alone. This will help no end in the studio.
The downside to the app… I want more presets. It comes with tuning presets for rock and jazz though, but I want more. Tunings and theory for other types of drums/styles/genres would be really cool. Like bongos and orchestral drums for example.
Best drum tuner out there
Not sure how they do it, this app is great. But more than that, it teaches you how to tune drums and to better understand your instrument!
Amazing work
Old guy trying to tune his kit after 30 years
Hi I’ve been playing for 40years in and off due to circumstances been playing electronic for the last 15 went back dusted off my old acoustic she sounded like cardboard boxes.
Been sitting there all this time.
Was considering buying new skins but thought why not try to tune them first?
Because i have always found it a giant pain in the drum stool !
Avoided if I can. Change heads etc.
then I had the idea 💡 there must be an app.
Hand on heart I don’t really understand half the lingo only cos I’m a man and skimmed through it.
But honestly hand on heart I used this app and my babies have never sounded so good.
Best money I have spent in ages.
Thank you 🙏
excellent
what a great app - very well designed and together with the online videos a really invaluable tool
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