hounddog - A KDE instrument tuner.
Copyright (C) 2001 Rusty Holleman
hounddog is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
This project is still alpha, but seems to work as a basic tuner on my machine. Please see INSTALL for instructions on installation.
- Running
Simply run hounddog with no arguments, and a small window should popup. Note hounddog currently only supports reading data directly from /dev/dsp, so this device should exist, and should not be opened in other applications. Many KDE environments run artsd, which you will have to suspend while hounddog is running (this can be accomplished by the command artsshell suspend). You may also want to open your mixer application and ensure that the microphone input (or whatever input you are concerned with) is set to be the source for recording. Some mixers give separate record/play levels, so make sure you set the right ones.
Adjusting settings:
The default settings should work fairly well. You may want to play
around with the graphical monitor display, although it is not very useful
yet. Decreasing sample rate and overlap factor will reduce load on the
CPU, although this should not be a problem on most hardware.
- Rusty Holleman <rusty@alumni.rice.edu>