[music-dsp] Re: music-dsp-digest V1 #1004

[Paul Kellett]

Richard Dobson <RWD at cableinet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> The most popular notation seems to be the first, where A440 is A[4], so
> that the the piano covers the range from  A[0] to A[8], with middle C
> being C[4].

It's not popular with me!  My Akai sampler thinks that middle C (MIDI 
note 60) is C3, and my Yamaha and Korg synths agree with it, so I was
suprised to find Sound Forge calls it C4. I assume it's a US thing.

So please - anyone writing samplers or sample editors, make this a
user option. 

And of course, pianists might think each octave starts at A not C...


Paul.

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