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cosmic frog
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Posted: 09:37pm 14 Mar 2012

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Hello, Just finished working out all the notes for use in the SOUND Command.

E=83,F=88,F#=93,G=98,G#=104,A=110,A#=117,B=124,C=131,C#=139, D=147,D#=156.

To play the next octave just times by 2 ie.C=131*2 is 262.
So a list of notes with five octaves would look like this-

E 83,165,330,660,1320
F 88,175,350,700,1400
F# 93,185,370,740,1480
G 98,196,392,785,1570
G# 104,208,416,832,1664
A 110,220,440,880,1760
A# 117,233,467,934,1868
B 124,247,495,990,1980
C 131,262,525,1050,2100
C# 139,277,555,1110,2220
D 147,294,558,1176,2352
D# 156,311,623,1246,2492

Hopefully this list will make it a lot easier when writing music in MMBASIC.

Dave.

Raros

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Posted: 12:16am 15 Mar 2012

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Hi Dave

If you can help, see the CircuitGizmos site
CircuitGizmos cgmmstick1
download begmax.pdf on page 43 there are all the musical notes.

bye
Edited by Raros 2012-03-16

rodent59
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Posted: 05:58am 15 Mar 2012

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Hi Dave,

For the equally tempered scale, the frequency ratio of adjacent notes (one semitone) is the twelfth root of two. 2^(1/12) ~= 1.05946.

So, rather than enter note frequencies individually, they could be calculated by, for example (not tested!),

C1=32.703196 ' Frequency of C1 in Hz (Note: A4=440Hz, concert pitch)
dim freq(8,12)
for octave=1 to 8 ' octave 4 is middle C to B above it
for note=1 to 12 ' 1=C, 2=C#, 3=D,..., 12=B
freq(octave,note)=C1*(2^(octave-1))*2^((note-1)/12)
next
next

Perhaps write it as a subroutine 'PitchInit'

Rod.

CircuitGizmos

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Posted: 02:42pm 15 Mar 2012

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Raros said Hi Dave

If you can help, see the CircuitGizmos site
CircuitGizmos cgmmstick1
download begmax.pdf on page 43 there are all the musical notes.

bye

Or via this link: Music on Maximite

Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite

cosmic frog
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Posted: 11:47pm 15 Mar 2012

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Thanks for the info. I used a guitar tuner to get my notes, some look like they are a little off

I needed a list of notes as I'm trying to get my UBW32 to play (pseudo) polyphonic music using just one voice! So far I've got it playing a bass line and melody at the same(ish) time and the results arn't that bad, it sounds a bit like a Spectrum computer and works by quickly playing one note then the other. I'll post the results when I've done it.

Dave.

DuinoMiteMegaAn
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Posted: 01:15am 16 Mar 2012

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For the Maximite sound experts, here is a quick sound question.

I am using the Maximite sound output as an alert and warning indicator..
Is there a program that I can use to translate a wave file into Maximite sound commands? (wave files have a lot of useful sounds like firetruck, siren, etc.)
It is extremely hard, without a musical background, to create the needed sounds for my alerts.
Edited by DuinoMiteMegaAn 2012-03-17

crackerjack

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Posted: 02:35am 16 Mar 2012

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DuinoMiteMegaAn - not possible without (at least some) extra hardware. See this post for ideas on playing WAV files from a *Mite.

crackerjack

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Posted: 02:13am 17 Mar 2012

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For some interesting musical possibilities see this video and this one too. I'm not sure if the You Tube poster (skywodd) has ever been a member of this forum, but this is a fine effort and he has obviously spent a fair amount of time coding up not only the program, but the song files too.Edited by crackerjack 2012-03-18

cosmic frog
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Posted: 02:57pm 21 Mar 2012

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I've finally got round to making a Youtube video of my UBW32 playing polyphonic sound. See what you think. The tune is Magic Roundabout. UBW32 playing polyphonic sound

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