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Wim Ton

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I am looking for an inexpensive (hopefully $20 or less) analog meter

one with a moving needle like this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:VU_Meter.jpg

that I can plug my computer's sound card into (actually two meters,
one for the right speaker, one for the left), that will read the pitch
of the audio being played.

I know that a given sound has a fundamental tone and overtones, and it
would have to detect the fundemantal tone (like a guitar tuner). The
audio source would be a MIDI program, so if necessary I could use
samples of a very simple waveform (ie Sine, square, etc) if that would
eliminate overtones and make pitch detection more accurate.

Does anyone know if such a meter exists or where to find plans to
build one?

Thanks.
If you have a computer anyway, how about using the sound input and run
one of the numerous spectrum analyser programs on it?

Wim

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