Once you've tuned the whole piano you can lock it and the next time you open up that file it will still be locked. There's a listening mode and lock mode for sampling notes. I find myself mostly using the AUTO mode because you can check another octave and it follows you wherever you go, but the STEP and LOCK modes are handy for a noisy environment or the upper and lower regions where the notes aren't very clear sometimes. STEP, which will stay very close to where you're at and not jump around and LOCK mode which you have to move manually note to note. AUTO, which will go to ANY note on the piano when you play it. ![]() The app has three settings for moving note to note. There are two other screens to look at but so far I haven't really used those. A black line represents the tuning curve and you can see it adjust as you sample notes. You simply play each note (I mute off the two outside strings) and it records it, adjusts the tuning curve with the latest information and puts a blue dot where the pitch is currently at. By doing this you can see exactly where the pianos tuning is currently at and spot the areas that you'll need to give the most attention to. One of the advantages of EPT is being able to read all 88 notes very quickly. Also, there are regular updates with improvements all the time. This is good news because the rumor is that the Chromebook OS will someday be the OS for tablets, so EPT will seamlessly run on those. If you keep up on all things Google, you'll know that most Chromebooks will now run apps from the Play Store. I'm running it on 4 devices right now, one of them being my Chromebook. This app is available on the Google Play Store, so because of that you can have it on any device you own that will run Google Play Store apps. Therefore, the time it takes me to tune a piano is probably about 15 minutes faster than it was with other ETA's. So, if you like to tweak things or use historical (or other) temperaments this isn't for you. It doesn't have all the "bells & whistles" that other higher priced ETA's have but then it's a ton less expensive. Enjoying may be an odd word to use but it really is just fun to use. I've been using EPT consistently for about three months now and have really been enjoying it. ( PLEASE NOTE: I'm NOT selling this product and I get nothing out of telling you about it. That being said, I wanted to share my experience with it and this is assuming you have the full or Pro version of it.)
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