Subject: [stella] Table of Note Values? From: Nick S Bensema <nickb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 02:08:45 -0700 (MST) |
I would like someone who has the necessary equipment, or a really damn good ear, to load up SoundX and write down what each pitch and distortion value make what notes. Ideally, this would go through all 31 pitch values, and all of the unique distortion values except maybe the noise ones. Even more ideally, it would say exactly how much each pitch was out of tune, in cents, so that a prospective VCS music composition could lean towards scales which use notes that are out of tune in the same way. It's hard to explain it from a musician's standpoint, but that information would be very useful. Let's say I'm writing a piece in the key of A, but the best A tone I could get is out of tune by +20 cents. A typical fifth interval, say, between an A note and an E note, would sound OK if I could get both A and E off by +20 cents or close, but if A were off by +20 and E were off by -25, it would sound downright crappy, because E would effectively sound out of tune by 45 cents, which is almost halfway to an E-flat. So I would either try to use a different distortion to get closer to E+20, or I would just program the piece in a different key. It'd certainly sound better tuned down a half-step than it would if the fifth were out of tune. Unfortunately, my efforts to hook the 2600's audio output into my guitar tuner have been as of yet unsuccessful. To be honest, I can't even load SoundX into my 2600 because Windows doesn't want to play WAVs, DOS doesn't want to play WAVs in a way that the Supercharger likes, and my CD-ROM won't play CDs. Besides, someone out there might have a better tuner than I have. Whoever creates this table will no doubt spawn off a whole colony of 2600 music demos, and he'll get his name in my web page. Unless it is accomplished by a female, in which all the same applies with different pronouns. -- To unsubscribe, send the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to stella-request@xxxxxxxxxxx
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