I need an RTA and there doesn't seem to be one for the BB OS. Only for windows mobile. Its also known as a Scectrum Analyzer. It shows real time values of audible frequencies being present. It doesn't have to be uber precise so the BB mic built in should work. I'm in the audio industry and would be willing to pay someone if they could make it for me. It would be nice if it could work like the Pocket RTA for windows mobile or iPhone. But if at least it could read a dominant frequency and display the value that would be fine. Anyone know of anything out there? Thanks

i would like this if you find an app

I could only find this one - last updated in December 2008
A musical instrument tuner for BlackBerry mobile phones

Good luck!

Thanks a heap for finding something, however, the spectrum analysis is not supported on cdma phones. I have curve 8330 from alltel and I think that includes me. Cause I installed it and the spectrum isn't working. Thanks anyway. Any idea as to why cdma phones aren't compatable?

Yorrick -

I need an RTA or something similar as well. This tuner app would suffice - I just need something to identify offending (aka "feedback") frequencies when tweaking PA monitors, but unfortunately this one's not compatible with the 8900 model yet.

Thanks!

- Jerry Turnbow
Sound On Site Audio

Bluefox -

Let me know if you find something, and I'll do the same if I find one first.

I know there's a developers kit available, but I think it's mostly a database application. Not sure if it has the horsepower or works on a low enough level to do any DSP stuff, and that level of programming is probably beyond my skills at this point anyway.

- Jerry Turnbow
Sound On Site Audio

I have tried searching around for over 12 months for something like a spectrum analyser.
The problem is that it is a very specialised piece of software and I am not sure how responsible or sensitive it is from the BB handset.

The only other way is to write your own app for the BB and perhaps charge $$ to recover cost of development.

The Blackberry analog input is limited to 16ks/s (if I remember correctly). Would this give you guys enough bandwidth? It should be fairly simple to write an FFT or something but running in Java it is likely to be very far from real time.

yes, that would still work. if I have freqs that go above 16khz I can figure that out in other ways. Most offensive freqs happen lower. it would still be faster than pulling out my laptop. The faster the response the better though. I dont want to have to create feedback in a system too long.

Well 16ks/s would give a bandwidth of 8kHz. I checked and that is the spec (16 bit samples). Unless the person who posted the spec made a mistake and the sample rate is 8ks/s which would give 4kHz.

I can do some playing around, but can't make any promises for a deliverable.

16kbit/s sampling would give you a maximum of 8kHz (ie. Nyquist theorem).
Most normal hearing would be a maximum of 100Hz to 10kHz - so a RTA on the BB would just fit into this category.

As bluefoxav said, most offensive sounds would be in the lower frequencies (under 8kHz) so this would be fine.

I could use this too. Thanks

Ok, I have a toy application working. On my bold performance is better than I expected, up until it hits the garbage collection wall. I'm looking at ways to avoid creating objects in the processing thread. An other option may be recording a short clip and analyzing it after. Don't know how this would work for you guys though.

Unfortunately CDMA units do not support PCM (audio/basic) recording format, so that will be an issue.

With my application I was able to determine the sample rate/bandwidth of the PCM recording. It is 8KS/s for a 4KHz band width. Quite a good anti-aliasing filter on it too.

Screen shots of my toy running on 8900 Simulator, and my 9000 live. Upper trace is an exponential average of the lower trace.

+1

Wow. Nice! +1

Would it be compatible on OS4.5 or older devices (like an 8310)?

Performance may suffer on older devices that can't go through batteries like the Bold ;)

I do my development on 4.6 but I don't recall anything that was 4.6 specific (that couldn't be worked around). I will see next time I'm an my PC with all the JDEs on it. I have a few tweaks to the UI to do, then a multi version ALX and COD files to build and I'll post an install for the Alpha code.

As promised. Comments, suggestions etc, post here or PM me. The ZIP contains a NSIS installer with ALX, CODs, JADs and a PDF documentation file.

So it has been nearly 10 days, is this worth polishing or should I shelve it?

I installed the rta on my blackberry tour, it opens, but i cant get it to operate properly. Its giving me a java error, i believe i have java enabled, but not sure.
If you could make it work, it would be AWESOME!
Thanks
K

The Tour is primarily a CDMA device. I know it is a world phone, so it will work on GSM carriers, but according to RIM PCM recording mode (needed for this program) is not supported on devices that operate on CDMA networks.

To support the Tour or the Storm I would have to find a QCELP codec somewhere.

Need it to run on 9530 Storm. I'd like to see it approach as close as possible the capabilities of SignalScope Pro (iPhone) or Pocket RTA Pro (Windows Mobile PocketPC).

Unfortunately the Storm is also a CDMA device.

I've been looking all over for an app like this! I'd really appreciate it if you would put a little "polish" on the app like an option to put numbers on the legend and putting the options in a menu (I'll never remember all the hotkeys).

Thanks for putting this together!

- Mike

Thanks, at least someone can use it. I will see what I can do, a menu won't be to difficult.