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'''Tune Smithy''' is a [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]-based [[shareware]] application, originally was developed as an [[algorithmic composition]] tool to make [[fractal music]]. It is now also used frequently as a [[musical tuning|retuning]] tool for [[microtonal music|microtonal composition]],<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=KChoKKhjOb0C&pg=PA157&dq=tune+smithy#v=onepage&q=tune%20smithy References to Tune Smithy in Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale By William A. Sethares]</ref> and for [[music therapy]] in conjunction with [[Barbara Hero]]’s Lambdoma keyboard<ref>[http://www.lambdoma.com/faqs.php Tune Smithy Software for Lambdoma Keyboard]</ref>. As a microtuner, it is one of the programs that supports [[MIDI Tuning Standard]] sysexes.

The application also contains a [[polyrhythm]] [[metronome]], a [[chord progression]] player, and an audio [[pitch (music)|pitch]] tracer which can be used for exact tracing of the pitch of microtonal music and [[birdsong]]. Other features include a mouse [[theremin]] and a PC keyboard player which can be used to explore alternative keyboard layouts such as the [[Janko keyboard]], which happens to use the same hexa(contracted; show full)*[http://www.robertinventor.com/software/tunesmithy/music.htm Tune Smithy Home Page]
*[http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Oct04/articles/pcmusician.htm Review in Sound on Sound, October 04]
* [http://www.robertinventor.com/software/3.0/index.htm Fractal Tunes you can make with Tune Smithy 3.0] sample fractal tunes made with [[Tune Smithy]]
[[Category:Computer music software]]
[[Category:MIDI]]
[[Category:Shareware]]
[[Category:Electronic music]]
[[Category:Musical tuning]]