LINGOT - A musical instrument tuner.

Written by:
  Ibn Cereijo Graa <comominimo@hotpop.com>
  Jairo Chapela Martnez <jairochapela@terra.es>

Copyright (C) 2004 Ibn Cereijo Graa, Jairo Chapela martnez.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.




Description
===========

lingot is a musical instrument tuner. It's accurate, easy to use, and
highly configurable. Originally conceived to tune electric guitars,
its configurability gives it a more general character. (Tuning another
instruments has not been tested).

It simulates the appearance of an analogic tuner, with a gauge
indicating the deviation relative to a certain note --found
automatically as the closest note to the estimated frequency--,
indicating that note and its frequency.

The note will be found automatically, since the program hasn't any
manual function mode (indicating the note to tune manually), for
mantaining generality.

We recommend using the tuner in conjunction with a mixer for selecting
the desired recording source and the signal recording levels.


Requisites
==========

	* Sound card.
	* Kernel linux with audio support (OSS).
	* GTK+ library, version 2.0.
	
Installation
============

	Please, see the INSTALL file.

Synopsis
========

	lingot [-c config]

The -c option causes the search of a file named {config}.conf in the
~/.lingot folder. For example:

	lingot -c bass.conf

will take the configuration in the ~/.lingot/bass.conf file. This is
useful for maintaining different configurations for different
instruments.

