[linux-audio-user] midi note numbers

[Dominic Sacré]

On Wednesday, 29. March 2006 18:22, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> 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.

On my Yamaha S30 it's C3. So the range of a piano is A-1 to C7.
This is also the notation used by rosegarden and muse...


    Dominic