Fractal FM9 - 12 Tuner; ADVANCED TUNER FUNCTIONS

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The FM9 has a built-in Tuner—an essential tool for the performing or recording musician. The tuner is easy to use
and has high-resolution automatic pitch detection, a calibration control, offsets for modied tuning schemes, and
the option to mute audio while tuning. Find the Tuner on the Home page by pressing TUNER (Push-knob A) or on
various foot switches in the footswitch layouts.
The tuner features a note name display, a “zero-center” meter, a spinning “strobe” type display and triangular
indicators for sharp and flat.
ADVANCED TUNER FUNCTIONS
The actual tuner is on the Tune page of the Tuner menu.
The Cong and Offsets pages provide options for advanced tuner functions.
Conguration Parameters
PARAMETER Description.
Source Selects which physical input the tuner should listen at.
Mute
OFF/INPUT/OUTPUT
Determines how the tuner mute function works.
 OFF: No mute. All signal is passed as usual when the tuner is engaged.
 OUTPUT: The signal is muted at the output. Tails are silenced.
 INPUT: The signal is muted at the noise gate. Tails ring out.
Display Mode
MIXED/ALL FLATS/
ALL SHARPS
Determines whether the tuner shows note names for accidentals as Sharps, Flats, or a
mix of both.
Calibration
430.0 – 450.0 Hz
Calibrates the tuner by setting the frequency of A4 (in the octave above middle C).
The tuner defaults to A440.
Downtune
0 – 4 Semitones
The Downtune control allows for simplied tuning when tuning down one to four
semitones. The Tuner display will read the non-downtuned equivalent note, i.e. if tuning
down two semitones, the D will still show E. While Downtune is set to any value other
than None, any blocks that utilize pitch information will also be transposed accordingly.
Use Offsets
OFF/ON
Determines whether the Offset settings (see below) are applied or ignored.
OFFSET PARAMETERS
PARAMETER Description
E1, B2, G3, D4, A5, E6
+/- 25.00 Cts
Offsets allow the tuner to be calibrated so individual notes diverge from standard
concert tuning by a dened amount. Use this for example for Buzz Feiten tuning.
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