iDrumTech User Manual Welcome To iDrumTech!
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1. Drums to them later Cancel Add Drum Kit Tip If you are viewing a drum already click the Back arrow until you see your drum kit list then click the button at the top right Photo If you d like to take a photo of your drum kit while editing the kit press and hold the drum kit photo You can take a photo and save it with your kit Same goes for Drums as well Taking a Photo of your Drums for Presets Note Presets information such as Drum Shells Companies Drum Heads Materials etc are data elements that we pull from the iDrumTech servers What does that mean It means that the options that are available now are easily updated when we add more companies more drum heads more wood types and etc All you have to do is click on the Settings tab then click Update Options button and your app will be loaded with the latest options for presets Pretty cool right The rest of the fields are for notes and etc Complete them how you d like Cloning a Drumkit New V1 1 You can now clone drum kits simply click on a Drum Kit detail view then click Edit and you ll see a clone option This clones the entire drum kit and it s contents Adding a Drum Preset Drums are the meat of iDrumTech These Presets help you to keep track of pitches of drums and other information In order to create a Drum you need a Drum Kit After you have created a Drum Kit click on that Drum Kit then select at the top right of the2. From You Again we want to hear from you Please send us photos videos of you using iDrumTech drum kit pictures etc We look forward to sharing the world of Drumming with you As always check out http 4DrumTech com and http DrummerConnection com 2013 iDrumTech com
3. available when you have headphones plugged in Audio Passthru routes the signal from your microphone applies some High Low Pass filters to the sound and then allows you to blend it with the Tone Generator to give you an isolated feedback loop in which you can match the pitch of the drumhead to the tone Required Headphones To prevent terrible feedback you are required to use your earbuds headphones with this feature Do not use this with external speakers with an external cable or you may cause a feedback loop with the microphone Usage Tap the Headphone button to enable Audio Passthru LONG PRESS the Headphone button to bring up the level slider Adjust as necessary Extremely Important Note If you are using the stock iPhone earbuds with a built in mic then your earbud microphone is the only active microphone It is not recommended that you use ear phones with built in microphones as they may be of different quality and or specifications which could directly reflect on the frequency results Note The Level Slider only adjusts the level of the audio stream coming from the microphone and going to your headphones You may want to adjust the Tone Generator Amplitude to Mix these two to a useful level Experiment with the Tone Generator and Audio Passthru Sliders and be cautious to not harm your ears These sliders do not affect the MASTER VOLUME You have control over your MASTE
4. screen and add your Drum The important fields in the drum besides the obvious are the tunings Don t worry if you don t know them just yet you can still add your drums and then use the calculator or tuner later on to save those frequencies to your presets 3 47 PM Drum Detail Save Drum Kit Crush Acrylic Kit Drum Ii TOM Diameter Depth 120 8 0 Lugs Per Head Shell Thickness 6 Ae Rack Tom Frequency Fundamental 103 8 Batter 146 8 Daca 17AA e uner Presets Calculator Lib More Fill out as much information as you would like and use the options pickers to fill pull from our pre loaded data such as drumheads and materials Tip You can swipe up and down on an option menu to scroll through the options or you can Double Tap an option to bring up a scrollable window of those options with indexes and search features u AT amp T 3 47 PM 89 EA Cancel Evans Drumheads Evans Bass Batter EMAD Clear Evans Bass Batter EMAD Coated Evans Bass Batter EMAD Onyx Evans Bass Batter EMAD2 Clear Evans Bass Batter EQ Clear Evans Bass Batter EQ2 Clear Evans Bass Batter EQ3 Clear Evans Bass Batter EQ3 Coated Evans Bass Batter EQ3 Frosted Evans Bass Batter EQ4 Clear Warman Tuner Presets culator Drum Preset Operation iDrumTech makes it easy for you to Edit Clone Delete or re calculate the pitches of drums Library S To Edit Clone or Delete a Drum simply click the Edit button at the t
5. R VOLUME via your device s buttons Warning Avoid level clipping peaking by moving your microphone further from the object you are measuring but not too far as you still want to trigger the frequency reading Flashlight The Flashlight is useful when inspecting the gap around the bearing edge and drum hoop It s also useful for light refraction tuning inspecting drum shells finding drum keys and other lost things finding your way through dark spaces lighting up your life inadvertently blinding people landing a crippled plane in the dark showing people how cool your app is with a dim controllable flashlight bragging about having the only tuner in the world with a flashlight and about 100 other uses See Warnings Below Figure 1x Flashlight Dimmer Required An iOS Device with a Camera and Flashlight iPhone 4 5 iPod Touch etc Usage Tap the flashlight button to enable flashlight LONG PRESS the flashlight button to bring up the dimmer slider Adjust as necessary Warning Do not look directly at the flashlight or you may blind yourself Do not point the flashlight at someone else s eyes or you could blind them Do not use the flashlight while driving Treat the flashlight as a laser beam WARNING NOT FAA APPROVED FOR LANDING CRIPPLED AIRPLANES CONSIDER USING AIRPLANE MODE WHILE IN FLIGHT Tuner Toolbox The toolbox contains several cool utilities such as an Audio Mixer and Det
6. and hold either the Tone Generator or Audio Passthru icons and you ll see a slider You can mix the sound levels of these two for a better effect iDrumTech Drum Tuner Hold Your Microphone 1 2 anani at the Lug You are ti Ta iDrume until you see R a uy Display Flash Get a Good Frequency Reading and then e Us Headphone Isolation Mode and Tone Generator There are so many more modes of tuning and we will get into that through the videos section on iDrumTech as well as some follow up documentation Let s get familiar with iDrumTech and take a tour starting with the Tuner Screen Tuner 34a FZ 164 8 Hz 150 0 Eb 4 nt YY a Crush Acrylic 14 Snare Fundamental 164 8Hz A Batter 277 2Hz A Reso 329 6Hz A El E F j DP PIO Se G8 Octave 2 adio Figure 1 1 Drum Tuner Tuner Main Display Frequency 29a AZ 138 6 Hz 9AB2 Target Pitch Calculated Distance Figure 1 2 Main Tuner Display The section at the top of the tuner screen is called the Main Display and it displays the following Frequency The Frequency in Hertz of the detected pitch when you strike or tap the drum See Reading Pitch later in this documentation Target Pitch This pitch is based on the Tone Wheel settings bottom of the tuner and or the selected item in the Preset section Fundamental Batter Reso Calculated Distance This is how high or low the measured pitch is from the Target Pitc
7. another Drum Kit Drum or DOUBLE TAP tap twice and a table listing of all your Drum Kits and Drums will appear Cancel Crush Acrylic Kit Crush Chameleon Ash Crush Sublime Bubinga ddrum Reflex DW kit Pearl Session Custom Snare Drums NY A Tuner Double Tap Drum Kits for Drum Kits List 10 Keyan 12 Tom 14 Snare 14 Tom i Tome Keyan 22 Kick Double Tap Drum for Drums List Once your drum is chosen select which frequency you wish to load and the Tone Generator and Calculated Distance Meter will update according to your selection Fundamental 138 6Hz Batter 207 6Hz A Reso 246 9Hz A Batter Head Selected Creating or Overriding a Drum Kit Drum From Tuner Screen To create a Drum Kit from the Tuner Screen simply LONG PRESS either the Drum Kit left selector or Drum right selector on the Tuner Screen and you will see a popup window with options Cancel From here you can override an existing Drum with the current tuner settings for Fundamental Batter or Reso heads or you can simply create a New Drum Kit or Drum When creating a New Drum the Tuner Screen s current Fundamental Batter Reso frequencies will be populated in your new drum Tuner Note Octave Picker e CH D lL PAOULE Sy Be Octave Figure 1 5 Note Picker Tone Wheel The Note Octave Picker or Tone Wheel is an easy way for you to visualize the notes corresponding to t
8. ected Pitch History Tap the toolbox and you ll be able to swipe Left Right through the various features Tuner Presets DW Kit TOMOM Fundamental 138 6Hz Batter 207 6 HZ O Reso 246 9Hz A Figure 1 4 Tuner Presets iDrumTech has a sophisticated onboard Drum Preset Library We ve pre loaded this with some defaults to get you started but you can add as many presets as you would like To better understand our terminology for Presets they are broken down as follows Drum Kit This could be considered a Container for your Drums You must have at least one Drum Kit before you can save Drums Drum This is the object that holds all of the information about your drum such as manufacturer diameter depth materials drum dial settings tunings head selections and much more The Presets Library is integrated into the Tuner You choose which Drum Kit and Drum you wish to tune and it s frequencies are displayed on the Tuner Screen Fundamental Pitch The pitch of the whole drum when both heads are tuned according to the Batter Reso frequencies Batter Pitch The pitch in which you tune each lug on the Batter Head 1 from the hoop to Reso Pitch The pitch in which you tune each lug on the Resonant Head 1 from the hoop to Picking a Drum To Tune Crush Acrylic 10 Tom Drum Kit Drum To choose a Drum to tune either flick up down on a Drum Kit to choose
9. ell as information on how to contact us and find us on the web Update Options iDrumTech s Preset Options such as Drum Heads Hoop Types Shell Types and such are loaded from an online database This allows us to continuously add new selections without requiring a full Apple App Store Update This allows us to keep your app fresh Simply press the Update button and your options will be updated via the web An internet connection is required Update Manual iDrumTech is so high tech that our manual can be downloaded right from our servers and updated into the app for you Pretty smooth right We like to keep you up to date with our app so don t hesitate to hit that Update Manual Button Get Support Don t hesitate to e mail us As always please read the manual and check out our videos and forums We ll be happy to help you out Tell a Friend Please Tell a Friend We ve got all the details ready for you in an e mail just plug their name in and send it off We greatly appreciate it App Reviews Please consult with us if you feel the need to write a negative review on our app We work hard on this app to bring you the most incredible drum tuning experience possible We want to help you and fix any issues you re having By communicating with us first you will get an opportunity to have your issues addressed instead of leaving us a negative review Please donate at http iDrumTech com help php We Want to Hear
10. h You will see a Hz reading and you will see the nearest note of the frequency read Utility Window Double tap the main tuner display for a utility window which has useful information such as pitch detection history lug tuning patterns and more More features being added in new releases Tuner Utilities Tone Gen Headphones Flashlight Toolbox Figure 1 3 Tuner Utilities The utilities section adds very useful functionality to use during your drum maintenance and tuning Tone Generator Generates a SineWaveTone matching the pitch of the Target Pitch Frequency which is used to help you tune your drum heads This pitch of this tone can be changed via the Note Picker or by selecting a Preset tone from the Presets Figure 1 x Long Press Tone Generator Usage Tap the Tone Generator Button to enable or disable the tone You an adjust volume of the Tone Generator by a LONG PRESS press and hold for 1 second on the icon to bring up the Tone Generator Volume slider This allows you to increase or decrease the amplitude of the tone Useful for very low or very high frequencies Warning Be sure to turn your headphone volume down before you enable the Tone Generator especially if you are using headphones Likewise avoid high frequency selections if possible Damage to your ears or listening devices may be caused by inappropriately using the Tone Generator Audio Passthru This feature is only
11. he pitches and frequencies you are tuning to The Note Octave Picker is always tied to the Target Pitch in the Main Display If you adjust the Note Octave Picker the Target Pitch will update If you select a Fundamental Batter or Reso Head the Note Octave Picker will be updated to reflect the note and octave of that selection As well the Target Pitch will be updated to your selection Changing the Frequency of a Preset You can use the Note Octave Selector to update your Fundamental Batter and Reso heads as well Simply dial in the tone you want and then click the small Tone Drum icon next to the Fundamental Batter or Reso heads on the tuner screen and the frequency will be transferred to that head Simply Long Press and then click Override to save your changes permanently The Tone to Drum Button Next to each frequency in your Preset Fundamental Batter Reso this assigns the current Target Pitch to that selection Presets Library m AT amp T 5 40 PM Drum Kits Q search Crush Acrylic Kit Crush Chameleon Ash Crush Sublime Bubinga ddrum Reflex DW Kit Pearl Session Custom Snare Drums Presets Calcu Figure 2 x Drum Tuning Library Drum Kits Pre loaded Drum Kits iDrumTech comes with a set of pre loaded Drum Kits We ve put these together based on the drum kits at DrummerConnection com We hope that soon once you dial in your drum kits you ll share them with us
12. m you About This Manual This document serves as a guideline to using the iDrumTech App based on testing and design through the development of the app If you find more creative ways to use it please share with us at http iDrumTech com contact This document DOES NOT serve as a full Drum Tuning guide We re merely here to help you get started using iDrumTech Don t worry though there s lots of videos and many more that are still being added to the Videos section of the Library in iDrumTech about Drum Tuning Stay Tuned Using iDrumTech iDrumTech is an extremely advanced utility for helping you tune your drums and choosing the right pitches notes to tune to Our goal is to determine the resonance that you like your drums at then pick pitches that work well together and aide you in tuning your drum to those pitches Quick Use Simply point the microphone of iDrumTech at your DRUM LUG tap the drum lightly approximately 1 inch inward from the edge of the hoop at the lug anda frequency will be displayed If you feel it is inaccurate tap your drum again until you get a good frequency Once you get a good frequency you want to tune the head to swipe from LEFT to RIGHT on the main frequency reading and the pitch will be loaded into the Tone Generator Use headphones without a built in microphone and enable Tone Generator and Audio Passthru and you ll be able to hear the pitch of your drum while you tune it Press
13. op of the drum details view and then select from the options below Tune Calculator Cancel Drum Tuning Calculator m AT amp T 5 37 PM 65 Ea Tuning Calculator Fundamental 138 6 Hz nt Batter 230 4 Hz nnt Reso 247 4 HZ wnt Crush Acrylic 10 Tom Top Head Bottom Head on Resonance TT Peeepeeeepeceeperecqeeerpeceepeceegurns Ss CH D EO BOG ee Octave Oe Calculator Figure 2 x Drum Tuning Calculator The objective when tuning drums and selecting pitches is to pick pitches that work together when the drumhead is struck Of course there s variables we can throw into those equations such as tuning your top head higher or lower or only having one head or spacing the notes in Third Fourth or Fifth Intervals to experience different resonances The tuning calculator will toss you into the ball park of selecting which notes to tune your heads to The most dominant pitch you hear when a drum is struck is called the Fundamental Pitch It s that sound and pitch that you hear as the drummer is rolling across the toms in a wicked fill Those are the pitches that we are aiming for when tuning a drum It s all centered around the Fundamental pitch However that can be tricky when you slap two moving membranes across a head and give each of them 6 12 tuning points and try to make sense of that Therefore the tuning calculator accepts your desired Fundamental Pitch and makes recommendations to
14. so we can share drum info and tunings as a community through the app For now we have started you off with some basic drum kits Select a Drum Kit and you ll see a list of drums for that kit s AT amp T 7 3 46 PM 1 89 zap Drum Kits DIAT f eo Crush Acrylic Kit 10 Tom gt 12 Tom gt 13 Snare gt 14 Snare gt 14 Tom gt 16 TOM gt 22 Kick gt 8 Tom gt Presets Calculator Library More Now simply choose a Deum Here s the 12 Drum Drums Drum Detail A Drum Kit Crush Acrylic Kit oi rom 12 Tom Diameter Depth 12 0 8 0 Lugs Per Head Shell Thickness 6 7 0 Rack Tom Frequency Fundamental 103 8 Batter 146 8 Daca TIAA Presets Inside the Drum Detail view you will be able to view all of the details about your drum Fancy right You can also edit clone delete and even send this selected drum to the Tuner or Calculator You will be able to update and override these drums from the Presets Library the Tuner or the Calculator Using Presets As you an tell Drum Presets are tightly integrated into the app You can edit the default presets or you can clone them and even add new presets Adding a New Drum Kit Preset Simply click Presets and from the main Drum List screen click the Plus button at the top of the screen A new window will appear and you can enter the information about your Drum Kit Remember Drum Kits are containers so you ll add
15. tune each lug to for the different Batter and Reso heads In theory these calculations will get you very close The Tuning Calculator is also integrated into the Preset Library You can select a preset drum load it into the calculator and re design your tuning for that drum Have fun and experiment Warning These are estimations which do not compensate for all drums their conditions their head selections and etc These calculations will get you in an estimated range As always be sure to use good judgement when tuning your drums Saving a Calculated Tuning At any point you are ready to save a calculated tuning tap and hold on the drum in the Tuning Calculator and click OVERRIDE or save as a new drum etc Library The Library is a collection of drum tech and tuning information Literally everything we can think of is being packed into the library IMPORTANT NOTE You will need an internet connection to utilize some features of the library such as Videos Online Get Help and etc We could not possibly bundle all of the videos with this app as it would fill up your phone Therefore this is streamed online to your phone A WIFI connection is recommended Please explore the library and have fun Keep in mind the ONLINE section is a website loaded off of our servers This section is loaded with an incredible amount of iDrumTech App Exclusive content MORE The MORE section has some useful settings you can adjust as w
16. user manual 3 iDrumTech User Manual ANDROID V1 1 2013 iDrumTech A Product of The Web Freaks INC and Drummer Connection http iDrumTech com http TheWebFreaks com http DrummerConnection com Welcome To iDrumTech Welcome to iDrumTech an innovative iPhone Drum Tech and Drum Tuning Application Using iDrumTech you can hone your skills in drum tuning and maintaining your drum kit iDrumTech has an immense amount of features and information specifically designed for Drum Tuning and Drum Maintenance Please donate at http iDrumTech com help php Before We Begin It s important to understand that there s no right or wrong way to tune your drums The advice given in the iDrumTech manual and iDrumTech App are just that advice Remember they are YOUR drums tune them how you like or experiment with some of the concepts and calculations that iDrumTech provides you As always please provide us direct feedback versus a negative app review Please contact us first and allow us to try and resolve your issues before leaving negative remarks about our app We work hard on iDrumTech and there are many variations to drums and tuning While we would like to have considered all variations it s impossible However we can research new and different scenarios and variations through your direct feedback Click on More in the iDrumTech App and contact us We would love to hear fro
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