![]() I can instruct it to display staves in concert pitch (shows exactly what it will play), and transposed pitch (shows what the instrument or family of instruments normally see and play when handed a part). ![]() When working with transposing staves in the Cubase score editor, in my experience, the stuff falls in line as it should. But then again, maybe the Score Editor is headed to a glamorous demise (I didn’t say Dorico, ok?) It hurts me to see the Score Editor’s power disregarded by most users because of minor things like this. On top off all, there is not a single mention of the “middle C” subject in the whole Score Editor, nor the Operation manual. The manual features one page on this subject of transposing instruments. Guitar and bass are easy because they transpose by an octave, but when you start working with trumpets and the like… well I don’t know how complicated might it get. When you see E1 in the info line but the score shows E2, things start getting confusing. That’s where I find conflicting and confusing that middle C=C3 in Cubase. Then, the Score Editor shows this note on the treble clef as E2 (I know, I know, display transpose with a preset is an easy fix, but still, the +12 setting conflicts with the fact that the Key Editor shows this note as E1. If I load a guitar on Halion Sonic (for instance the preset “gm25 nylon guitar”), E1 will trigger E2-82hz on the instrument. The confusion may come with transposing instruments. What I meant to say was: How rare is it for MIDI note 60 to trigger anything different than middle C by default in virtual instruments tuned to the standard western equal temperament system?īecause in the end, the octave number doesn’t quite matter, as long as its the same MIDI message triggering the same sample or synthesized frequency. Thank you Steve this was the answer I was looking for. Many users making music from those parts of the world participate here on the forums. Yamaha, Korg and others have specialized instruments that are region- or culture-specific. So instruments, acoustic or electronic, are constructed according to the requirements of a given system. In other parts of the world pitch and modality evolved differently. ![]() Most devices and software synths supply a variety of tunings, such as mean-tone, Werkmeister, etc., which are part of the history of tempered tuning that evolved in Europe since Pythagoras’ time. While most music sound generators designed for European and Western markets use Equal Temperament 12 tone tuning, there are many devices that use others. Then the device produces a pitch based on its own parameters. Technically speaking, a midi command is sent to a device and the device interprets it. A sophisticated synth/sampler like Halion or to a lesser extent Kontakt, provide the means to adjust what pitches are played in response to a given command.Īlso, many synths follow the custom of transposing instruments vis-a-vis music notation, so guitar, and bass, for instance, might come transposed right out of the box. What the MIDI standard dictates is how the commands are sent and what their format should be, e.g., Middle C with velocity 64 in hexadecimal: 90 3C 40, and, that there are 12 pitches per octave. There is no direct relation between midi note numbers and frequency. Is it always the same reaction? Is it a standard?Īll devices agree that Middle C is midi note 60, but due to the way the industry evolved, some manufacturers call midi note 60 C3, and others call it C4. I’m talking about the standard default reaction of virtual instruments to the same MIDI note. I´m not talking about customized MIDI mapping, or about samplers/synths where you can pretty much assign the MIDI event to whichever frequency you want, or change it with transpose functions. In other words, is there an industry standard that establishes a direct relationship between each MIDI note and a specific frequency? i.e. I want to find out if the frequency triggered by a single MIDI event is always the same?įor instance, if I add an E1 event on the key editor: Will this ALWAYS trigger a note with an 82Hz fundamental, no matter the virtual instrument that I load? (please note that Cubase’s middle C is C3, so this means that C3=261Hz) I’m analyzing the Score Editor and I have a question.
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