On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:19:48AM +1300, Jeff McClintock wrote: > > Don't use plain frequency in Hertz, Hz are very un-musical because they do > > not scale the same way as our ear perceives pitch. > > I disagree here.
I had the same reaction when reading 'Hz are very un-musical because they do not scale the same way as our ear perceives pitch'. So what ? None of the traditional ways to represent pitch do that. It's irrelevant. Pitch perception depends on loudness, spectrum, the presence of modulation (in both the musical and technical meanings of that word actually), the presence of other signals, etc. Do MIDI note numbers or any logarithmic scale (e.g. octaves) capture that any better than 'Hz' ? Not at all. There are other indications that things are not as simple as they are often presented. For example, critical bandwidths do not obey either a linear nor a logarithmic law. And anyway, at some point when generating a signal and no matter how you express pitch, you have to convert to Hz and divide by the sample rate (also Hz). Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
