Doing a little minor scripting here (transposing or adding extra notes) which works fine. I am, however. confused about the note names/ranges, eg C4 vs C5 etc.
If I play a middle C on my 88 key controller, I would expect that to be C4 - like it is in all musicdom (except Yamaha who are just wrong). Here’s the thing - on the Global MIDI monitor it registers as C3. OK - doing the Yamaha thing I guess - that means the B just below it should be B3 - but no - it is B2?!? . Further testing reveals that GP is starting octave numbers on C ? (edit per reply below - this is common/correct and my bad)
Now - to further complicate things. In a script if I want to “capture” middle C to do something with it - add an extra note for example. I have to capture C2?
What am I missing here? I must have something set wrong or really don’t understand something.
Thanks.
Are you using a rackspace script or a scriptlet?
In an odd coincidence, this is the 2nd time this has come up for me today.
It’s not just GP that changes octave at C rather than A. That’s the standard.
American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN) – OPEN MUSIC THEORY).
A scriptlet - it is in my wiring diagram
In an odd coincidence, this is the 2nd time this has come up for me today.
It’s not just GP that changes octave at C rather than A. That’s the standard.
American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN) – OPEN MUSIC THEORY)
Yep - I was wrong on that - don’t like how it is but it is what it is lol!
According to this website the note number 60 is related to C3
https://www.zem-college.de/midi/mc_taben.htm
Middle C
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Middle C (the fourth C key from left on a standard 88-key piano keyboard) is designated C4 in scientific pitch notation, and c′ in Helmholtz pitch notation; it is note number 60 in MIDI notation.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(musical_note)
Note number 60 can be C3 (like Yamaha) or C4 (like Roland). Sadly every producer of software does as he likes.
It is a well known problem.
While I think Yamaha is nuts lol, I’m much less concerned with it being C3 or C4 than I am the fact that it is different in my midi monitor than it is in my script capturing.