Manual

PolyTune 2 English Manual – 2014-09-01 7
How to use PolyTune 2
How to use PolyTune 2
Chromatic vs. polyphonic tuning
A very simple guitar tuner will only allow you to
tune open strings, one string at a time – e.g. E, A,
d, g, b, and e’ for the standard tuning of a guitar.
PolyTune2 is a chromatic tuner – meaning it will
detect and allow you to tune all twelve notes of
the scale.
But that’s not all. Other than a traditional tun-
er, PolyTune 2 allows you to play all your in-
strument’s string simultaneously when tuning.
PolyTune2 will detect which strings need to be
tuned and indicate those strings in its display.
This allows you to tune your instrument much
faster.
Finally, you may have tuned one or all strings on
your instrument differently from standard tuning,
or you may be using a capo to change the play-
able length of the strings.
In all these situation, PolyTune 2 has you cov-
ered.
Display modes
If you press the display mode button on the rear
of PolyTune 2 once, the currently selected dis-
play mode will be shown. Pressing the display
mode button repeatedly will cycle through these
modes:
– Guitar / Needle mode (indicated by a “G”
and the center LED column lighting up).
– Guitar / Strobe mode (indicated by a “G”
and the middle row of LEDs lighting up).
– Bass / Needle mode (indicated by a “B” and
the center LED column lighting up).
– Bass / Strobe mode (indicated by a “B” and
the middle row of LEDs lighting up).
Needle mode
In Needle mode, when you tune a single string,
pitch is indicated by a column of five LEDs in
the upper part of the display, and the name of
the target note is displayed at the bottom of the
display.
If the string you are tuning is too low, LEDs to
the left of the center column will light up. If the
string is too high, LEDs to the right of the center
column will light up.
Tune the string until the middle column and the
middle row of green LEDs lights up. This means
you are “on target”.
Needle mode – A string in tune
Strobe mode
In Strobe mode, the difference between the
correct (target) frequency and the actual de-
tected frequency is displayed by two indicators
simultaneously:
1. red LEDs to the left (pitch too low) or to the
right (pitch to high) of the center LED column
2. rotating segments in the display. The closer
the detected frequency is to the target fre-
quency, the slower the rotation.
Tune the string until the rotating pattern has
come to a stop and only the middle column of
green LED lights up.
Polyphonic tuning
As you know by now, PolyTune2 is a polyphonic
tuner. You can strum your instrument, and Poly-
Tune2 will analyze and display the tuning of all
strings.
So how do you activate polyphonic tuning mode?
You don’t – it just works. Strum, tune, rock on!
Strum your guitar. Strings that are in tune will
be represented by two green LEDs. Strings that
need tuning are represented by two red LEDs
below (flat) or above (sharp) the middle row.