Here is a better link for this: http://www.cakewalk.com/D...;Req=Dialogs2.073.html

The only thing is that this is a global setting, when there may well be different methods in use for different plugins.

Bob Bone

This should clear things up lol

http://www.music.vt.edu/m...s/octaveregisters.html

fwrend


This should clear things up lol

http://www.music.vt.edu/m...s/octaveregisters.html

Yeah - but they have the wrong expansion of MIDI.  They indicate it means Musical Instrument DEVICE Interface, when it really means Musical Instrument DIGITAL Interface.


I just LOVE quibbles for breakfast.


That is actually a quite nice explanation of the whole issue with octaves and such - thanks for providing it.


Bob Bone

Bigdogs


You can find the Base Octave for Pitches setting in Preferences, Customisation, Display (not sure why it's there)
Simon

Aha, thanks. 

Jeez...it's all very confusing isn't it. I'm still getting over that guitar music isn't played as written, after 25 years. 

robert_e_bone

fwrend


This should clear things up lol

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/octaveregisters/octaveregisters.html

Yeah - but they have the wrong expansion of MIDI.  They indicate it means Musical Instrument DEVICE Interface, when it really means Musical Instrument DIGITAL Interface.


I just LOVE quibbles for breakfast.


That is actually a quite nice explanation of the whole issue with octaves and such - thanks for providing it.


Bob Bone

That's hilarious!  I didn't even notice - what's that say about our fine higher ed institutions???
 
This is actually a very well layed out explanation.  BTW - this person has a nice collection of native american flutes - just click on the "next" page.
 
http://www.flutopedia.com/octave_notation.htm
 
 

Another thing you might encounter in connection with this... some synth manufacturers deliberately transpose bass instruments so that you can play their low notes on a 61-key (or smaller) controller. So they'll end up notated an octave higher than they sound; Dim Pro does this IIRC. But, of course, not all synths do this, so you may find that changing synths suddenly causes your bass part to sound too high. 

brundlefly


Another thing you might encounter in connection with this... some synth manufacturers deliberately transpose bass instruments so that you can play their low notes on a 61-key (or smaller) controller. So they'll end up notated an octave higher than they sound; Dim Pro does this IIRC. But, of course, not all synths do this, so you may find that changing synths suddenly causes your bass part to sound too high. 

I actually noticed this recently. And then of course you have oscillators going at different octaves so who even knows what the "correct" pitch is on a synth sound? 

and as an added conundrum all sfz synths have a baseoctave of -1 even though the default base in sonar is 0.