Underneath you will find six screws, and your nuts and washers, as well as a brief information pamphlet which details how the tuners function. Inside the beautifully designed packaging, the tuners are artfully displayed in their cardboard mount. Read on to find out how the magic happens… What’s In The Box? They come in either a 6 in-line set or a 3+3 set in a variety of different finishes. The design is so simple and innovative that they really don’t look any different to any other locking tuner on the market. These tuners are a little different to most in that they negate the need for string cutters by incorporating a trimming mechanism directly into the tuners themselves.
D’Addario were kind enough to send out a set of their Planet Waves Auto-Trim Tuning Machines, and I was only too glad to give them a test drive!
#WAVES TUNE REVIEW UPGRADE#
While not as nice as it could be, it's still very usable.I’m a big fan of locking tuners and try to have them on all of my guitars where possible, so when I recently received my new Gaskell AllRounder the very first thing I did was to upgrade the standard stock tuners. Not a deal breaker, but it's a factor.īut again - for the features, it's a steal at $29. The other thing that's a bit clunky is that - at least in Reaper - moving the focus in the UI doesn't move the focus in the DAW. It's a really nice product, would be really super if it had a full-size UI. So yes, I'm disappointed that Waves hasn't give the UI the sort of love that it deserves. It turns out that if you waffle on a purchase decision long enough, someone eventually spends the money.īut hey. The announcement that Reaper would soon be supporting ARA so there would be tight integration with Melodyne didn't help.
#WAVES TUNE REVIEW FULL#
So I was really on the fence about this purchase, mostly because of the UI, but also since there was a very reasonably priced full copy of Melodyne here in the VI Classified section. And I had tried out Melodyne some years back, and really liked the UI. I assume that at the time it was written there was some constraint on the handling resizing the GUI, but obviously that's no longer an issue.Īs I mentioned, I'd been using ReaTune, and was used to a larger GUI. It would also be nice if there were a "snap to pitch" option when dragging notes around, instead of just indicating the key on the keyboard.īut for the price - it's a very good deal.Ĭlick to expand.Unfortunately, no. If it were resizable, it would be a lot better. It's also nice that you can click the keyboard on the left and hear the right note, just in case you've forgotten what the note was supposed to be. Being able to draw in a new pitch line by hand is convenient. For example, you can flatten out an excessive vibrato on a note, and then replace it with a more subtle synthetic vibrato. It's got a good bang for the buck - there are a lot of features that you're not going to see in the entry level version of Melodyne. Then again, no pitch correction is going to be able to completely correct that. Most of the time, it's fairly transparent, but not entirely invisible - especially if there's an accompanying change in timbre, like in a "scoop" into a note.
Prior to that, I'd been using Reaper's ReaTune. I picked it up a couple of months back, and have been happy with the results.