There's a convention for naming notes like C4 or Eb3 or A#-1 that seems quite commonly used in music applications. I would very much like a note nme to MIDI note number converter to make certain things I do with ChucK a lot more readable and easy to change - m.noteon(snd.stom("C#4")); for example. The problem is that middle-C (MIDI note 60) is not well defined. Quite a few sources suggest it should be C4 a smaller number suggest C3. Once a function to do the conversion is in ChucK, it would be difficult to change without irritating people who use it. Does anyone have a stronger opinion than I as to what the middle-C note name should be? B> -- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Implementor) Nihil illegitemi carbovndvm
On Fri Aug 04, 2006 at 01:30:04AM +0800, Bruce Murphy wrote:
There's a convention for naming notes like C4 or Eb3 or A#-1 that seems quite commonly used in music applications. I would very much like a note nme to MIDI note number converter to make certain things I do with ChucK a lot more readable and easy to change -
m.noteon(snd.stom("C#4"));
for example.
The problem is that middle-C (MIDI note 60) is not well defined. Quite a few sources suggest it should be C4 a smaller number suggest C3. Once a function to do the conversion is in ChucK, it would be difficult to change without irritating people who use it.
Does anyone have a stronger opinion than I as to what the middle-C note name should be?
see this thread: http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2006-March/034126.h...
B> -- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Implementor) Nihil illegitemi carbovndvm _______________________________________________ chuck-users mailing list chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck-users
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:09:43PM +0000, carmen wrote:
On Fri Aug 04, 2006 at 01:30:04AM +0800, Bruce Murphy wrote:
Does anyone have a stronger opinion than I as to what the middle-C note name should be?
see this thread: http://www.music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2006-March/034126.h...
Summary, it's relatively arbitrary. People have seen C3, C4, C5. Most seem to lean towards C4 (I knew this), Yamaha use C3 (I know this too, I have a Dx7 next to me with it marked). So this provided more an interesting insight into other people grappling with the same issue than new information. The MIDI manufacturer folk also say C4, but note that it's arbitrary. The code currently does C4 and in the absence of strong objection, it's going to stay that way :) B> -- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Implementor) Nihil illegitemi carbovndvm
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