Thanks for the reply and for sorting it out. Embarassing mistake. Now I see that I have actually not used the /note argument prior to this incident but instead
/freq togheter with `+ (4*12).midicps. Glad to learn how to do it another way.
Thank you!
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From: jamshark70@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, 28 December 2019 01:55
To: sc-users
Subject: Re: [sc-users] problem with /note argument in Pbindef
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 7:56 AM <nilswallgren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can’t figure out why this wont work:
> (
> \note, Pseq(([
> 12,11,9,12,
> 9,7,5,4,
> 5,7,11,12
> ]+(4*12)).midicps,inf),
>
> I want to define the notes as “note” and transpose them. Not sure what is happening here. Just hearing some low initial tick.
\note represents a step along a chromatic gamut (n-step equal temperament).
note == 0 is, with default settings, middle C. That is, by default,
octave == 5 -- and note == 0 translates to midinote = note + (octave *
stepsPerOctave) = 60 (in 12ET). There are actually more variables in
play, but the point is, you don't need to transpose \note by octaves
-- so where you wrote `+ (4*12)`, this will actually put your notes in
octave 9. Pretty sure that isn't what you wanted.
note is *not* a frequency! So you should definitely not supply cps
here -- .midicps is not correct.
So what is happening is that you are starting with reasonable note
values, then transposing them up a few octaves so that they are rather
high, then converting these to cps which makes the numbers even
higher. *Then* the normal event conversions add (octave *
stepsPerOctave) for midinote, and do *another* midicps for \freq.
(note: (12 + (4*12)).midicps).play;
-> ( 'instrument': default, 'msgFunc': a Function, 'amp': 0.1,
'server': localhost,
'note': 261.6255653006, 'sustain': 0.8, 'freq': 956699202.80129,
'hasGate': true, 'isPlaying': true,
'id': [ 1002 ] )
'freq': 956699202.80129 -- again, I'm pretty sure that a billion
cycles per second isn't what you wanted.
http://doc.sccode.org/Tutorials/A-Practical-Guide/PG_07_Value_Conversions.html
The keys discussed in this document are not free for you to use any
way that you like. \note simply isn't in Hz.
hjh
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