Summary of Contents for TLA TUNING SET CTS-7-C
- Page 1 V 1.52 Manual TUNING SET CTS-7-C TUNING SET CTS-7-CE engeneering office for modern electronic design...
- Page 7 Switches and sockets CTS-7-C and CE Power on-off switch LED, illuminated when charger is connected Jack for charger (AC adaptor) Jack for external microphon Switch for microphone amplification CTS-7-CE Jack for USB interface (PC) Jack for active box Jack for thermosensor...
- Page 8 Note Indication CTS-7 ------------ g# - 6 --------- c - 6 --------- c - 5 --------- c - 4 --------- c - 3 --------- c - 2 --------- a - 1 (concert pitch) --------- c - 1 --------- H --------- ---- Bb --------- B ---- G#...
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Page 9: Table Of Contents
Manual ............... TUNING SET CTS-7-C TUNING SET CTS-7-CE Congratulations to the purchase of your Tuning Set CTS-7. It will make the tuning of your musical instruments much easier and will provide you with high-precision results. Part 1 of these operating instructions contains general information about the Tuning Set. - Page 10 Automatic timer ......................12 Thermosensor calibration (CTS-7-CE only) .............. 12 Tuning pianos ......................12 Tuning historical instruments ................... 13 Tuning guitars ......................13 Storing cent values of historical temperaments ............13 Storing the entire tuning of an instrument ............... 14 3.10 The PIANYZER, how to make individual piano tunings.
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Page 11: Initial Operations
1 Initial Operations 1.1 Power supply The Tuning Set is equipped with 4 rechargeable NiMH batteries (1.2 Volt 2000 mAh). The operat- ing period with one battery charge lasts approx. 12 hours. When the batteries are low, the indica- tor "LOW BAT" appears in the LC-display. In order to avoid deep discharge of the batteries, the device will automatically shut off. -
Page 12: Setting Up The Device
1.3 Setting up the device 1.4 Recording Recording takes place by means of a built-in condenser microphone. An external microphone jack (3.5 mm) can be plugged into the socket, also found on the right-hand side of the device. This deactivates the internal microphone. You can adjust the sensitivity of the built-in microphone with the slide switch (high/low) located on the right side of the Tuning Set. -
Page 13: Deleting All Memories
1. Switch off the device. 2. While pressing the keys “F“ and “E“ simultaneously, switch on the device. 3. Keep the keys pressed until this display is indicated. 4. Let go of the keys. LANGUAGE 5. Select your language with the “Func“ keys and confirm English with the “E“... -
Page 14: Audible Tone On/Off
Out of tune (frequency deviation) 1. Field > 1 cent 2. Field > 2 cent 3. Field > 4 cent 4. Field > 8 cent 5. Field > 16 cent 6. Field > 32 cent 7. Field > 64 cent 8. -
Page 15: Automatic Tone Adjustment Mode
2.4.1 Automatic tone adjustment mode When both “Note” keys are pressed simultaneously, switching to another tone occurs automatically from this point on. The device automatically follows the tone level of the played tone. _a_1 440.00 The activated automatic tone adjustment mode is indicated by the rectangle shown by the arrow. -
Page 16: Automatic Pitch Search
By tapping the "Func >" key, you can raise the standard pitch by _a_1 1/100th Hertz. 440.01 By tapping the "< Func" key, you can lower the standard pitch by _a_1 1/100th Hertz. 440.00 _a_1 If you continually press the “S” key and simultaneously tap the "Func>"... -
Page 17: Automatic Cent Search
2.7.1 Automatic cent search If both keys “< Func“ and “Func >“ are pressed simultaneously, and _a_1 32.8 you are playing the tone a_1, the cent calibration of the Tuning Set 440.00 begins to move automatically to the tone played on your instrument at the moment (auto cent search mode). - Page 18 You are now at the position shown by the big arrow number 1 in the “Menu Control Overview”. Menu Continually press the “S” key and simultaneously tap "E" key (from TUNE here on we will call this key combination “S+E“). NORMAL TUNING The Tuning Set now leaves the tuning mode.
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Page 19: Tuning Set Switch-Off
ENTER TEMP. With the “Note >“ key, you can move to the right in the menu. TEMPERAMENT___70 TUNE With the <Note“ key, you can move back to the left. NORMAL TUNING Now, press the “Func>“ key. With this, you can select, for TUNE example, an instrument program which contains a piano tuning. -
Page 20: Illumination On/Off
3.2 Illumination on/off Find this indicator on the display as described in chapter 0: ILLUMINATION 400 Now, using the “Func“ keys, you can turn the illumination on or off. 3.3 Automatic timer Find this indicator on the display as descibed in chapter 0: TIMER The timer function can be turned on or off with the “Func“... -
Page 21: Tuning Historical Instruments
TUNE PIANO STRETCH 3 Find this display indicator as described in chapter 0: _a_1 Press “E“: 440.00 First, it is useful to define the current concert pitch of the instrument (see chapter 2.6.). Then enter the desired concert pitch tone into the device. When applying this function, the new concert pitch should be no more than 10 Hz higher than the former pitch, in order to avoid warp- ing of the instrument or tearing strings during the tuning task. -
Page 22: Storing The Entire Tuning Of An Instrument
Now, press the “E” key. On the display appears a moving line: “Go ahead with “S+F !“. To go ahead, keep “S” pressed and tap “F“ (This acts as a memory protection). Now, this is indicated on the display: TEMPERAMENT___80 You now may assign an easily remembered name to the memory. - Page 23 Using the “Func“ keys, find, for example, memory number 14 Menu ENTER INST. (the last two digits of the menu indication correspond to the INSTRUMENT ___14 memory number). You can access memory number 9 thru 60. Now, press the “E” key. On the bottom line of the display a moving line appears: “Go ahead with “S+F”...
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Page 24: The Pianyzer, How To Make Individual Piano Tunings
At this point, setting the option “Hist.Temperament“ to “on“, Hist. Temperament will allow you to select an historical temperament before entering the tuning mode. Press the ”E“ key. Only if there is a thermosensor connected to the Tuning Set, you are asked to enter the next two items. Using the “func“... - Page 25 SELECT Select the option „ANALYZER“ and press „E“ again. ANALYZER <> _d__ <> Select the highest tone of your piano which has a 2 string chorus and press “E”. 2-STRING CHOIR Select the highest tone of your piano which has a 1 string chorus _G#_ <>...
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Page 26: How To Produce A Stretching By Entering Of Support Values (Piano Editor)
Press “E”. The device calculates the piano stretching and stores TUNE ->110 them. To start with the real work of piano tuning, search the function "tune" with the "note" buttons. Then it goes on, as described in Sec- INSTRUMENT tion 3.5 of the manual for CTS-7. Note: Within the “PIANYZER”- procedure, you can back step using the “Note”... -
Page 28: Tone Sequences And Automatic Return
3.11 Tone sequences and automatic return For instrument programming, the functionality of the partial adjustments was expanded: In addition to the values “1” thru ”8”, you may enter the value „0„ and the character „*„. Meaning: „0„ In the tuning mode, the tone adjustment will skip any tone with this partial adjustment. „*„... -
Page 29: The Usb Port (Cts-7-Ce Only)
You can combine all stored stretchings with the historical temperaments as you please. If you select a temperament and a stretching at the same time, the Tuning-Set will add the temperament cents to those of the stretching. 4 The USB Port (CTS-7-CE only) 4.1 Data transmission from and to a PC All data which you have stored in the Tuning Set CTS-7-CE can be transmitted to a PC and retrieved from it again, or transmitted to another device. -
Page 30: The Target Frequency Of The Tuning Set
The frequency 440.00 Hertz are to be raised by 5 cent: 440.00 Hz * 1200/5 2 = 441.27 Hz The frequency 440.00 Hertz are to be raised by 100 cent, which means by one semitone: 440.00 Hz * 1200/100 2 = 440.00 Hz * 12 2 = 466.16 Hz The frequency 466,16 Hertz are to be lowered by 100 cent, which means by one semitone: 466.16 Hz : 1200/100... -
Page 31: Transposer
5.6 Transposer The transposer allows the transposition of all temperament tables into another key system. If for example the command transpose “a” to "c" ( A --> C) is entered, the cent values of the cent tables are transferred 3 semitones to the right. It should be noted, that the cent reference function also is in effect and the cent values of the tables are recalculated, so that for the cent reference tone the cent value is = 0. -
Page 32: Thermosensor Reference
Temperature 5.10 Filtering of partials The low susceptibility to disturbance of the TLA Tuning Set display is achieved among other things through a band pass filter (64 dB per octave) installed in the device. This filter suppresses all in-coming signals of the microphone except the frequency of the tone to be tuned. Only the frequency of the partial, which is adjusted in the set, passes the filter. -
Page 33: Technical Data
6 Technical Data Tuning range: 20 to 15,000 Hz (ca. 9,5 octaves) Accuracy of desired frequency: absolute and relative < 0.1 cent (1/1000 semitone step!) Display: 1. Analog, electronic stroboscope. 2. Bar graph 16 digit for 1 Cent 3. LED rough display: 4 cent Memory function for LCD-bar graph: When the tone to be measured falls silent, the last measurement result is kept Concert pitch: Adjustable from 220.00 to 880.00 Hertz in steps of 0.01 Hertz by tapping a key or using... - Page 34 Cent-values of the historical temperaments 1 EQUAL TEMPERAMENT 2 AMMERBACH_1_Lpz_ -4,2 -0,1 -2,2 3 AMMERBACH_2_Lpz_ -2,1 -8,2 -2,0 -4,1 8,1 -10,2 4 ANONYMUS_(Pyth.) -9,8 -17,6 -5,9 -35,2 -2,0 9,8 -19,6 -7,8 -15,6 -3,9 -33,2 5 BACH/BARNES_1/6_ -2,0 -2,0 6 BACH/KELLNER_1/6 -1,0 -1,5 -2,5...
- Page 35 Diagrams of piano stretchings PIANO STRETCH 2. PIANO STRETCH 1. cent cent PIANO STRETCH 3. cent...
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