Maqam: Eastern Tuner
Maqam is a precision tuner and metronome for 24 Eastern stringed instruments, built for serious musicians who play makam music.
INSTRUMENTS COVERED
• Bağlama family: long-neck, short-neck (kısa sap), meydan sazı, divan sazı,
çöğür, bozuk, tambura, bağlama curası, tambura curası
• Ottoman classical: ud (Turkish + Arabic), kanun (24 perde groups), mızraplı
tanbur, yaylı tanbur, klasik kemençe, Cüneyd Orhon kemençesi, lavta
• Folk: cümbüş, Karadeniz kemençesi
• Greek: bouzouki (trichordo + tetrachordo), lyra (Cretan + Pontian), baglamas
• Levantine: buzuq (modern + Matar Muhammad)
• Caucasus: Azerbaijani tar (11 strings + sympathetic)
AUTO STRING DETECTION
Don't know which string you just plucked? Just play. Maqam listens to the incoming pitch and locks onto the closest tuning string. Tap any string to manually override.
ANALOG GAUGE
A vintage half-circle needle gauge shows pitch deviation in cents. Green sweet-spot at ±15¢. Bold, modern, no-nonsense.
50+ TUNING SYSTEMS (Pro)
• Bağlama: Bozuk Düzen, Bağlama Düzeni, Misket, Müstezat, Hüseyni, Hüzzam,
Sürmeli, Eviç, Abdal, Fidayda, Kayseri, Acemaşiran, Sabahi, Segâh, Kemençe,
Zirgüle, Do Müstezat, and more
• Ud: Klasik (Tanburi Cemil), Bam La, Bam Mi
• Kanun: Çargâh Natural with all 24 AEU perde positions
METRONOME
Built-in metronome with time signatures 2/4 through 10/4, tap tempo, visual beat dots.
PRIVACY-FIRST
Microphone audio never leaves your device. No analytics. No tracking. No account. No internet required.
MAQAM PRO
Subscribe monthly ($1.99) or unlock lifetime ($29) to access:
• Unlimited auto-detect (free version is limited to 30s per session)
• All 50+ tuning düzens
• 12 Bolahenk ahenk presets (Mansur, Kız, Süpürde, Bolahenk, etc.)
• AEU 24-perde microtonal notation
• 53-TET Holdrian Koma precision
• Wider time signatures (5/4 to 10/4)
• Recording
Built with love for the Eastern music community.