[linux-audio-user] midi note numbers

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:57:15PM +0200, Atte Andr?? Jensen wrote:
> 
> >My real point is: I believe the octave names to be arbitrary.

I've read once it's one octave difference between some brands.
Someone on #lad said yamaha is one octave off from about everyone 
else. I guess that would be one octave up. Depends on if the first  
octave is 0 or 1(?).

> Then, if I'm writing an application and want to conform to the majority 
> of apps, what do you and others here find the most usual. Let's take 
> midinote 60 (sits on the middle of my evolution keyboards), what would 
> you call that? C5?

My Korg M1 and GEM S3 deem it a C4.
AFAIR, so does Cubase.


Cheers,
Thorsten Wilms