Many of those who are in doubt about whether to go to Linux or not what they always have in mind is "I can use my same applications" "What alternatives exist" among others. Lor it is true that you will not be able to use your same applications unless you use Crossover or Wine.
But honestly the best option is to adapt to the free alternatives. In the case of music professionals, musicians or enthusiasts, they can choose to use a flavor of Ubuntu aimed at them, which is "Ubuntu Studio". Even if what you want is to use a tuner and not make an installation of this flavor, you can opt for “Fmit”.
About Fmit
Fmit (Free Music Instrument Tuner) is a graphical utility to tune musical instruments with time capabilities, error history, and volumes and advanced features.
fmit Allows you to tune musical instruments with features including frequency and volume traces, adjustable basic tuning frequency, multiple tuning scale options (chromatic, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III, diatonic and meaning), microtonal tuning with Scala support (.scl) and statistics.
Despite all these options, the resources are also optional and can be hidden for a very simple overview.
Fmit is written in C and C ++ using the Q library and its code is under the PL (v2) license.
Among its main characteristics we can find the following:
- Estimation of the fundamental frequency (f0) of an audio signal, in real time.
- Harmonics amplitude
- Waveform period
- Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)
- Microtonal tuning (supports scala file format)
- Statistics
- All views are optional to keep the interface as simple as possible.
- It can support OSS, ALSA, PortAudio and Jack sound systems.
- Everything works under Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.
In addition to it enables real-time sound analysis with views for waveform period, harmonic amplitude, and discrete Fourier transform (DFT).
Fmit gives the option of being able to choose between several sound capture systems, including ALSA and JACK.
Fmit shows or hides individual panels and goes from a simple analog tuner view to an advanced set of analysis tools in real time, or anywhere in between.
How to install Fmit on Ubuntu and derivatives?
For those who are interested in being able to install this musical instrument tuner in their system, they can do so by following the instructions we share below.
The first thing we are going to do is go to the official website of this application, in which we can obtain the latest stable package from its download section. The link is this.
At the moment it is version 1.2.6. The deb package will be downloaded with the help of the wget command as follows:
wget https://github.com/gillesdegottex/fmit/releases/download/v1.2.6/fmit_1.2.6-github_amd64.deb
Done the download of this package We can install with our favorite package manager or from the same terminal with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i fmit_1.2.6-github_amd64.deb
Already installed the application, We can solve the dependencies of this with the following command:
sudo apt -f install
Installation from Flatpak
Now another method to be able to install this application in our system is with the help of Flatpak packages. So you must have the support of these packages on your system.
Already with added support, You will only have to open a terminal on your system and on it you will type the following command:
flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.gillesdegottex.FMIT.flatpakref
To consult If there is an update available and apply it, you can do so by executing the following command:
flatpak --user update io.github.gillesdegottex.FMIT
Finally, the developer of this application comments that in case the application crashes in its use, they must stop any other audio application that I use, since the capture device must be only available for FMIT.
Even if they have any other related problem, their developer won't be able to help them. You can send your questions in the following link.