Guitar tuner with Ruby
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12-10-2019 - |
Question
I've never worked with real-time audio features. I would like to know whether there are ruby libraries out there that would allow me to create something like a guitar tuner.
Solution
There are two orthogonal tasks: 1) read the audio, 2) process it. To get the audio you could check ruby-audio though, to be honest, I've never used it and its documentation seems scarce. Personally I'd resort to whatever your operating system provides; for example in GNU/Linux we have handy tools like bplay. The second issue is how to calculate the FFT of audio, this should be easy with FFTW3.
Here is a quick and dirty example that gets the peak point of the FFT from stdin (16 bits, mono):
require 'rubygems'
require 'fftw3'
module Tuner
def self.peaks(input_channel, samplerate, window_size)
Enumerator.new do |enum|
loop do
data = input_channel.read(window_size).unpack("s*")
na = NArray.to_na(data)
fft = FFTW3.fft(na).to_a[0, window_size/2]
max_n = fft.map(&:abs).each_with_index.drop(1).max[1]
enum.yield(max_n.to_f * samplerate / window_size)
end
end
end
end
if __FILE__ == $0
Tuner.peaks(STDIN, 8000, 1024).each { |f| puts f }
end
To be called, for example:
$ brec -s 8000 -b 16 | ruby tuner.rb
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