Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: Pitch control
From: David Gerard Matthews (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 05:32:02 EET
Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
>[representing pitch]
>
>i'm a classically trained musician, and i even failed to learn csound
>properly, but even so it strikes me as highly arbitrary and somewhat
>anachronistic to stick to the 12 semitones/octave model.
>so i'd strongly second steve's suggestion to have 1.0f per octave and
>nothing else (you might say even the notion of an octave is
>anachronistic, but then it's a ratio of 2:1, which *is* some sort of
>natural constant in music).
>
>back to lurk mode...
>
>
Seconded.
-dgm
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