Re: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related

  • From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:13:19 -0600

figured I was going to have to do that. ah well, makes things easier. :) I can just add to the notes if I want higher/lower octives. 


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Tyler Littlefield
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:58 PM
Subject: RE: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related
Calculate them on the fly; otherwise, you'll deal with input error, floating 
point error, and so on.

Take care,
Sina


-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:17 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related
I got that. I ended up reading that after I tried to do the divisible by 7, 
and that makes more sense. thanks for the link. I'll manually calculate
those because I'm not really sure how to throw in calculations for each note 

now that I'm calculating for both black and white.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:01 PM
Subject: RE: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related



Ok, then you understand the part about the 12th root of 2, yes? Because
that's how to do it, not dividing by 7. please remember there are 12 keys
in
each octive, 7 white and 5 black. Also, it's not an even ddistribution,
it's
only an equidistant stepping; therefore, each note is determined not by
the
n-1 note but by the n-12 note, as that is one octive before it. Because
it's
impracticle to do things this way, the article/page gives you a formula by which you can calculate the x+c note, where c can be positive or negative, 
measured in steps E.G. 12 per octive, and x is defined as the current
note/frequency E.G. 440hz for A.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:47 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related

I did. thanks for asking.

Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:29 PM
Subject: RE: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related



Did you read the site? At all?

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:08 PM
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Subject: Re: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related

o, I gotcha. I wasn't thinking about that... thanks. :) so going from
240,
my next c would be 480. so I basically divide 240/7 and use that as my
scale, and add note+(240*oct) to the mix to get the real note.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:03 PM
Subject: RE: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related



You can figure it out based on the fact you know a previous or
successive
octive is twice down or up, and that the notes are in equal tempered
chromatic scales. Here's a site; however.

http://www.physlink.com/Education/askExperts/ae165.cfm

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tyler
Littlefield
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:57 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related
uh... how much is "appropriately?" Is there a range from a to b, b to c, 
etc?


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:45 PM
Subject: RE: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related
You could simply generate a sine wave at 440hz, which gives you concert 
A.
now that you have the A above middle C, simply increment and decrement
your
frequency appropriately to achieve the desired note.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:19 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: re: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related

A rest depends on the beat; it will be one full beat, so a slow
beat will have a longer rest than a fast beat.  I usually just
pick seconds; so maybe I want 5 notes per second, which means my
beat is .8 seconds long, so my rest is .8 seconds.  A measure
will be 3.2 seconds (4 beats).  Each note, then, would be 200
miliseconds, so a quarter note is 50 ms.  I hope this makes
sense.

Unfortunately, my note frequencies list has disappeared, but just
Google "musical note frequencies" or something like it.  HTH!

Have a great day,
Alex


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:05:27 -0600
Subject: question for the music gurus:slightly programming

related


I got really bored earlier, and decided to mess with some musical

notes.

I found a listing of wikipedia's notes, but the f frequency seems

to be off.

Would anyone happen to have a list, somewhere of: 1: the

frequency of a full octive--I can just multiply by 2 or divide by
2 to get higher/lower, and the duration for a full rest--I can
just divide again to get quarter/eighth etc.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added

features.

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