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Wrong octave?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:58 am
by 3over3
Anyone know why MachFive is displaying the octave of my MIDI notes incorrectly? If I play C3, it comes out as C4 on the MachFive keyboard, C1 becomes C2, etc. My imported library still plays on the keys I think it should, but I have to add one octave to see what MachFive thinks it's playing (if you see what I mean).
Have I just missed a prefs page? Apologies is this is a RTFM issue!
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:38 pm
by RCory
If you're using DP, you set the octave mappings in the prefs..
HTH
Cory
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:14 pm
by Sarcazm
This is something that has bugged me recently with all devs, not just Motu.
Many times I've been swapping synths over a MIDI track to find the right sound, and often I've had to use a pitch shifter cuz they're never in the same octave.
This is such a fundamental thing; surely a C4 is a C4 and not a C3 or C5.
Come on all devs; stick to a standard and keep to it!!!
/rant off
Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:26 am
by 3over3
Sarcazm wrote:This is something that has bugged me recently with all devs, not just Motu.
Many times I've been swapping synths over a MIDI track to find the right sound, and often I've had to use a pitch shifter cuz they're never in the same octave.
This is such a fundamental thing; surely a C4 is a C4 and not a C3 or C5.
Come on all devs; stick to a standard and keep to it!!!
/rant off
No, this isn't a pitch issue - it's just that what my host (Pro Tools, not DP) and my keyboard think is C3, MachFive displays as something else. It's a MIDI note thing. I know a few manufacturers disagree about what middle C is - but I like it at note number 60, like most of the civilised world!