RE: question for the music gurus:slightly programming related

  • From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:03:28 -0400

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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