Software for analyzing intonation

What can Melodyne do?

 

My answer to your actual question is 'no'.

But one of the keys of responding to feedback is that feedback must be timely. It's not very helpful if I record myself, discover that I was out of tune five minutes, or even one minute, or even really one beat ago, and then going back and fixing it.

So suggestions that I have used:
- if you want to see visually when you are out of tune, why not use a chromatic tuner? Instantaneous feedback, you can respond to it right there (Lauren Pierce recommends this in some of her teaching, and there is no arguing with her playing).

- A loop pedal (I stole this from @flatback and it's genius). Run a mic or a pickup into a loop pedal, into a powered monitor or an amp, and you can listen back to phrases that are as long or short as you want, without much of the messing about that comes with recording yourself. Tap the pedal to start the recording, tap it again and playback is instantaneous.

- I like drones best of all, because it is working on my ear so well. I use a digital piano, I set it too an organ tone without any vibrato, and I place a weight on the key of the note I want (as a weight I use a heavy guitar slide, but anything narrow and weighty enough will do). The organ tone makes for a really musical exercise, so I use it a lot and for a long time, whereas a lot of drones I have tried I found piercing and pretty difficult to live with.

Best wishes, and I hope you find what you are looking for.

 

Check out the app Tonal Energy, it’s pretty good at visualizing your intonation in real time. It will provide a score in percent and visually how in tune each note was over a length of time. It’s also a great all around practice app with tuner, metronome, drone. I use it every day on the iPad- I think this is exactly what you are looking for.
TonalEnergy, Inc.

 

I found this app useful for getting real time feedback on my (bad) intonation: ‎Tunable - Music Practice Tools
It can record a session and award an accuracy score per-pitch.

 

The TotalEnergy app can record your playing with a detailed graphic analysis of the intonation and the rhythm. It helped me figure out that some of the intonation mistakes were related to specific bow changes or shifts. (I was often late on the beat when I was out of tune, which made the situation even worse.)

 

The reatune plugin in reaper DAW may do want you want.. you can look t the plugin while you are recording / monitoring input

 

I don't know melodyne, but the VariAudio editing in cubase pro is pretty amazing. Probably overkill and over any reasonable budget for your needs

 

There's an app called Intunator that might be what you're after.
Intunator App
I've got it and the problem is that I think intonation is variable according to the context. I like drones. Cello drones for tuning on Spotify or a the tanpura droid app if you want to work on stuff that doesn't go with a perfect 5th.

 

Reatune works on playback. It even draws graphs of pitch/error in one of the tabs

 

Tonal Energy will do this- there is a record option that will graph out each note and give you a score on your accuracy over time. But this won’t work if you are looking for an option for a DAW

 

I have the cello drone app on my phone - think it is great. I don't believe it locks you into any tuning system. It is about accuracy and having enough sensitivity and facility between your hands and ears to hit a mark in the moment, whether that mark is an 440 A dead center or a G tuned just so to make an upright piano and guitar blend together.
Just like a metronome shouldn't make you stiff, it should just get you into the right place.

 

+1 for Tonal Energy . Note also that especially for passages or music, TE is very sensitive to the attack , more so than , say, Tunable (dunno if Tunable can be fed files post-event) . In this way, it's a very good critic of the front of your notes. Well, mine anyway - if I play some music with any rhythm or tempo and see less than, heh , ideal scores, but hold an eighth note for a few beats to let the note stabilize , the score improves . For one thing, this gives me confidence in my left hand, and motivation for improving the bow. It's a good direction to head in , and ime a good use of technology.
I remember walking through a room at the 2019 ISB convention as vendors were packing up, and Sam Suggs IIRC was trying to get a bit pf practicing in in the middle of all the traffic, or maybe trying a bow or something and I think was playing a Bach cello suite very very nicely. There was some music on the floor and big iPad big, blinking green circles with "+1" typically in them. And what looked good on the screen sure sounded good. Fine intonation and good front on the notes... That's what you get for your 10,000 (+) hours and diligence!

 

Melodyne is the king of software, for what it seems you want.

However, many DAWs have a pitch correction plugin built in now, just perhaps not as great sounding. For Instance, Logic X has it. You can record yourself, activate the FlexPitch and check it out.

I'm sure the other DAW's for Windows have similar built in plugins. Also, Melodyne will work as a plugin in your DAW too.

It will display the waveforms rising and falling on a grid with the piano keyboard on the left showing what the notes are. You'll see where you're sharp or flat based on a tuning Grid. (Right click on each note to get more info) I think you can modify the Grid tuning parameters too. (Global tuning, ET, Just, Meantone etc). Details may vary.

Many DAWs have it.. well because modern pop performers requires a lot of pitch correction. :-/