Input check

Everything in the play-along engine depends on this page reading your guitar correctly. Plug in, work down the panels, then save the settings.

Pitch

no signal

level — · gate —

Measurements

Sample rate: -- Hz
Clarity: --
Notes detected: 0
Input latency: -- ms

Detection tuning

The right values depend on your pickup, interface and room. If notes appear when you are not playing, the gate is too low. If quiet playing is ignored, it is too high. Measure first, then adjust by ear.

Noise gate 0.0060 Signal below this is ignored entirely.

Onset sensitivity 1.80 Higher means a note must jump further above the previous level to count as new.

Minimum clarity 0.55 How confident the pitch estimate must be before a note is reported.

Retrigger delay 45 ms Minimum gap between two detected attacks. Raise it if one pluck registers twice.

Latency calibration

Eight clicks, one second apart. Mute the strings with your palm and strike on each click. This measures the delay through your whole chain, which is the number every timing judgement is corrected by.

Notes heard

Chord detection

Strum and hold. Chord recognition is deliberately coarse: it answers "was that a G major?" rather than transcribing a voicing.

Event log