[linux-audio-dev] XAP: Pitch control

David Gerard Matthews dgm4+ at pitt.edu
Tue Dec 10 22:33:00 UTC 2002


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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