17/05/2026
Guys, the app on iOS is now largely translated into different languages.
I tweaked the machine-translation, where I could; and kept the raw machine-translation, where my knowledge of a language comes short / is abscent.
It would be great if the native speakers amongst you could help me out with feedback, where translation needs correction/optimization, and where idoms or phrasing feel "off", ...
That way, the user base of an entire region / language-group would benefit greatly from your input, so I hope we can truly cooperate a bit on this one!
Feel invited to provide input on anything that needs changing. Every contribution helps!
Thanks a bunch - Muchos Gracias - Muito obrigado - Grazie Mille - Merci BCP- Danke Schon- Xie Xie - Shokran - Veel dank - Spasiva - Asante sana - Dzieki - Tak - Eucharisto _ etc.... :) !
Bram
(Feedback on translation > [email protected], or shake the device and leave a report with the built-in bug reporting tool. Thanks!)
(This is a tuning suggestion, as a reference point, and not about “the one correct tuning” or replacing your ears.
It’s about using pitch as a reference system to describe tunings, and DEFINITELY not about tuning drums to musical notes in a sense like how guitars* are tuned...
Every drum tuning (also when achieved by ear, with a tension watch, or torque key, ...) creates measurable pitch relationships: between the drums, between batter and resonant heads, and across the entire kit.
Just grab a drum, and check its pitches, to describe how it's tuned.
Those pitches relate to one another.
Those relationships affect tonal spacing, sustain, decay, resonance, feel and the musical character of the kit.
When you tune purely on gut feel by ear, you are still choosing pitch relationships whereat the drum sounds nice to your taste and needs. Clearing drumheads properly by ear, or with a tuner to the exact same tuning, does not affect your drum sound at all. The same tuning insights and skills matter to get a good sound out of a kit... whether you clear pitches by ear or not.
Using a tuner to clear heads, and to check how the tonal spacing between the drums is, doesn't deprive you from learning how to tune drums. On the contrary, it usually helps to achieve a good drum sound in a wide variation of situations.
A tuner simply measures the pitches of a drum and puts a number on it that makes those pitch relationships visible... That alone already makes a tuning repeatable, but it also offers clarity about how a drum is really tuned at any situation, so that you can build understanding and insight while exploring tunings.
Also an important fact to embrace >>
*Drums are not harmonic instruments, and the same fundamental tone can be achieved with different pitches for both heads, so the same note can produce very different sounds and decay profiles, timbres depending on shell size, heads, tuning balance, muffling and playing dynamics.
Basically the same not can sound & feel differently based on how you tune both heads... this is where a lot of tuning creativity is possible to shape your sound & feel, without changing the tonal spacing between the drums of a kit, or without swapping heads, etc...
A note on tuning creativity and tuning freedom:
Notes are not rules to tell you drums must be matching notes.
(For the comfort of reference tunings, and the tonal spacing between the drums, the app visualizes the fundamental tones on a piano keyboard and in Hz.
FYI: you can of course tune to the pitches between the notes as well. Any tuning one creates, will either sit on, or between notes...
The app has a dedicated feature to let you store your own pitches in all freedom : you can perfectly use any custom pitches in the app, so any value between musical notes at different ranges of A4 calibration, if you like.
Basically: any tuning you created by ear can be measured, stored as a tuning reference, including sound samples for the fundamzntal tone, the batter head tone and the reso head tone. No limitiations to your tuning creativity.)
Pitches are like GPS coordinates.
Using pitches in Hz (which can be converted into notes and an offset) is only another way to describe a drum's tuning approach more accurately and effectively than 'high' -or 'low.'
Converting pitches from Hz into "notes" makes sense in a musical context, because that's how musicians commonly talk about pitch (not in Hz).
Using pitch as a system makes it easier to:
• get into the ballpark range of a desired sound
• recreate tunings consistently
• communicate tunings clearly
• experiment intentionally
• build genre-specific sounds faster
• understand why certain kits feel balanced or disconnected
Whether you clear pitches by ear alone, or with a tuning aid, you still decide how your drums sound best, by experimenting with different tunings >>> You still make the final tuning decisions based on how your drums sound. (Pitch-numbers just give you a roadmap you can trust to navigate while exploring sounds!)
