[Audacity-nyquist] re Range of MIDI numbers

[David R. S. <dav...@sh...>]

Thanks Edgar, I wanted the range for a user-defined range of MIDI numbers, 
maximum range 20Hz to 20kHz... it'll be easy to calculate now that you 
reminded me of hz-to-step function.

Yes, I've used fractional step numbers.

thanks

David
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> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:23:33 +0100
> From: edg...@we...
> To: aud...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Audacity-nyquist] Range of MIDI numbers?
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>
> Hi David,
>
> according to the MIDI specification the lowest is MIDI Number 0 that
> equals to C0 and the highest is MIDI number 127 that equals to G10
>
> But I haven't tested this in Audacity right now.
>
> - edgar

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> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:45:16 +0100
> From: edg...@we...
> To: aud...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Audacity-nyquist] Range of MIDI numbers?
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>
> Hi David,
>
> answer part two:
>
> just tested with Audacity 1.2.3 and the Nyquist prompt:
>
> (osc 0) gives a sine wave with a frequency od 8.175 Hz (very low)
> (osc 127) gives a sine wave with a frequency of 12543 Hz (very high)
>
> but with nyquist you can go further:
>
> (osc 135) gives an (aliased) frequency of 19912 Hz (approx. 20 kHz)
> (osc -10) gives a frequency of 4.588 Hz. It's so low that I can only see
> the speakers moving but I cannot hear anything.
>
> You can calculate the frequency with (step-to-hz midi-number)
> or the midi number out of a frequency with (hz-to-step frequency)
>
> I think the MIDI functions in Nyquist are only limited by the XLisp range
> of FIXNUMS or FLONUMS. I think in Nyquist you even can have fractional
> MIDI numbers.
>
> More experiments have to follow.
>
> - edgar