Drum Tuner - iDrumTune Pro

RT Sixty Ltd

About this app

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!

IT’S LIKE A GUITAR TUNER - BUT FOR DRUMS !

"an invaluable aid not only for drummers but also studio engineers and producers" - Sound on Sound Magazine (the world's most read music technology 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 (expert drummers' website)

iDrumTune Pro brings unrivalled accuracy and features that have never been possible before for assisting with drum tuning.

iDrumTune Pro includes the following features:

* Pitch Tuning – to make your drums sing at their perfect tone 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

* The Science of Drum Tuning – and extensive manual to help you learn 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 device microphone 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 Pro 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.

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

* Please note: the Android version of iDrumTune does not include the Preset Manager feature, which will be added as part of a free upgrade in coming months.

Ratings and reviews

I have been a garage drummer for 45 plus years. Always had trouble tuning my drums. Bought the tension dial thingy, tried by ear, watched many videos. I installed the IDrum Tune Pro. My cheap Ludwig snare was close to what I wanted it to sound but never could get that sweet spot. I read your Idrum manual and in 1 hour I finally got that snare to sound really sweet. I never thought about the frequency while tuning. And the 1.75 tuning technic is what did it for me. Very nice product. Best $ 6.99

I have this on my Google pixel 3 and so far so good! Definitely makes tubing drums easier and I can say following the pitch, then lug, and then resonant relation, toms are sound really good. There are a few things that are annoying like having to go back to main menu and then back into certain functions, but maybe it's just me not knowing certain things. I did have an issue this last time where I couldn't get RTF to change even thought I kept changing tuning, but just showed me RTF of 1.

Very useful tools. It worked perfectly. The tool is even flexible enough to go beyond what it says it can do. If you use the 1.5 ratio method, your reso head frequency will be higher than the batter head. Trying tuning the reso head to a 1.5 ratio, and your reso head will have a lower frequency than your batter head, which I prefer. Any thoughts I had regarding the app resulted in a very fast response.

What’s new

Version 2.8 updated for the most recent Android SDKs.