01Listen
Begin with the instrument, not the room.
The microphone opens only while the tuner is visible. The incoming sound is separated into short moments the engine can examine without keeping them.
Technology
The technology should disappear.
tempiTune builds music tools that listen carefully, respond clearly and leave the musician thinking only about the music.
Signal journey
From a vibrating string to a reading you can trust
Five decisions happen between hearing a sound and showing a note. Most of them decide what not to show.
02Separate
Ignore what is not a note.
Breath, chairs and nearby instruments can all resemble useful information. Uncertain sound is held back before it can move the reading.
03Measure
Find the pitch inside the harmonics.
Once the signal is clear enough, its fundamental pitch is compared with the chosen reference and resolved into a useful direction.
04Settle
Let the needle commit.
A useful tuner does not repeat every tiny change it hears. The display settles around a confident reading so the musician can act.
05Release
Keep the result. Discard the sound.
The audio frame leaves memory after analysis. It is never recorded, stored or uploaded.
Engineering principles
Precision is a behaviour, not a bigger number
We judge the technology by what it lets a musician do: decide sooner, stay focused and trust what the screen says.
01
Signal before display
The interface waits for a trustworthy reading instead of filling silence with movement.
02
Calm before spectacle
Motion confirms state and direction. It never competes with the musician for attention.
03
Useful under pressure
Controls remain legible in rehearsal rooms, lessons and on stage, where conditions are rarely perfect.
Timing architecture
A click has to arrive before it can feel late
A metronome is not a timer with a sound attached. Its beats need to be prepared together so the pattern keeps its shape when the tempo changes.
01Tempo stays on the same musical clock.
02Subdivision stays on the same musical clock.
03Accent stays on the same musical clock.
04Swing stays on the same musical clock.
In TickWave, tuning and timing are separate instruments built around the same principle: the response should feel settled, not merely fast.
Privacy by construction
The safest audio is the audio that was never kept
Core tuning and timing run fully on the device. The microphone is used only for real-time pitch detection.
Never recorded
Sound is analysed in memory while the tuner is open.
Never stored
No recording is written to the device by the tuner.
Never uploaded
Audio does not leave the device for pitch detection.
Honest about numbers.
We do not publish accuracy figures or latency claims we have not measured in a way we would defend. When we have numbers worth standing behind, the method will sit beside them.
Built to leave the music in front.
TickWave brings these decisions together in one tuner and metronome. Launching soon on Android, with iOS coming soon.