30 Mar
2006
30 Mar
'06
8:04 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:58:57AM -0800, Brad Fuller brad-at-sonaural.com |LAU| wrote:
That's right. According to the MIDI Detailed Spec
(version 4.2) on page
10, MIDI note 60 is Middle C.
This is the fourth C on the piano, and traditionally known as C4 (261Hz)
on the piano. However, I've seen apps refer to middle C as C3, C4, and C5.
Crazy.
I believe it depends on the instrument. On the piano, C1 is the first
C, which makes middle C C4. On a pipe organ, however, which generally
has 61 notes on each keyboard, C1 is the first C on the keyboard, which
puts middle C at C3 which an 8' stop, which is the standard footage
when counting notes. I guess from what others have said, Yamaha uses
the pipe organ numbering (which makes sense on most synthesizers with
five octave keyboards), while others are using the piano numbering.
Chuck