[OSC_dev] OSC replacement for MIDI

[Gaspard Bucher]

I am a musician and I have found myself coding using midi note numbers
in scripts for repetitive music. "60" means nothing, but is learnable
when you really need to dig this deep. "60.5" is a quarter tone,
that's easy too. 234.7 438.9 will never mean anything useful in
musical terms and it's not at all backward compatible.

Gaspard

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Jeff Glatt <jgglatt at roadrunner.com> wrote:
>> I've never seen a musician talk in Hz.
>
> Typically not. That's why, if your tuning uses the western
> 12 tone scale, your software presents the pitch as a
> "note name". For example, instead of displaying 440 Hz,
> you display A4 (ie, the A key in the fourth octave). Or if
> you're using some sort of "graphical manuscript" as your
> note display, you draw the A note above middle C.
>
> This is how western musicians designate pitches -- either
> by note name, or by musical manuscript. Any other
> representation is not appropriate for a musician using
> western scales, as this is the standard.
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