Audio Tuner for Android has, at last, been updated to version 2.0. Some major updates in this new release:

• Spectrum Analysis! This is the big one. Play your musical instrument into your Android handset, and it will tell you the pitch that it’s at.
• More instruments – a number of new instruments, and alternate tunings have been added. Alternate guitar, banjo and ukulele tunings have been added, along with a number of new instruments, such as Viola, Autoharp and Dulcimer.
• Better power management – this version takes advantage of Android’s power management and backgrounding capabilities to ensure that Android can properly optimize battery life.
• More accurate tone generation – the app generates tones at the most accurate possible pitch, using the full capabilities of your handset.

The list of available instruments now includes the autoharp, banjo, bass guitar, cello, Chapman stick, guitar, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, piano, ukulele, viola and the violin! Phew!

To try out Audio Tuner, find it on Android Market. For further information, contact us!

Playalong started out as a way to play along to Elvis on your ukulele. Nowadays, Playalong offers quite a bit more.

We now support

• chords for the guitar,
• chords for the banjo,
• an iPhone app, and
• 50 songs!

Supernifty’s Playalong has songs from each of the last seven decades.

Here’s a selection of tag counts from Supernifty’s first fifty songs.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Playalong… it’s fitting that the 50th song to be added is Israel Kamakawiwoʻole’s ukulele classic Over the rainbow – Enjoy!