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This is excellent. The graphics and sounds are nicely done. One thing that I don't see in it, but that I find fascinating, is that in western music each half
by robbrown451 10y ago
This is excellent. The graphics and sounds are nicely done.
One thing that I don't see in it, but that I find fascinating, is that in western music each half step represents a ratio of the twelfth-root of two, in terms of frequency. That way 12 half steps (an octave) will double the frequency.
Certain notes within this are close, but not exactly, on a "simple ratio". It's just coincidental that it works out pretty good. (although you could make it work out just as good with something other than a 12 step scale....a 19-step scale has been used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_equal_temperament https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_equal_temperament )
Anyway, I think that would fit in well with what you've done so far, but obviously, explained in the nice simple graphics that you seem very good at.
I also must say I love the way you use color, I have a music project of my own (that I'm hoping to debut very soon) that also uses color in a very similar way. Did you know that Isaac Newton fixated on 7 colors (ROYGBIV) because he thought there was a connection between the diatonic scale and colors? That's why indigo seems to have been promoted from some obscure color to one of the "basic" colors of the rainbow. (I prefer BOYGBPP, red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-pink)
- nandemo 10y ago> Certain notes within this are close, but not exactly, on a "simple ratio". It's just coincidental that it works out pretty good. It isn't coincidental. Equal temperament was a fork of just intonation.
- robbrown451 10y agoNot sure what you are saying. It is chance how close they are. It works out fairly well in 12 tone scales, worse in most others. Is "coincidence" the wrong word? Maybe. But it didn't have to work out that way, luck or whatever you want to call it was involved.
- nandemo 10y agoJust intonation is based on intervals that are ratios of small whole numbers. The 12-tone equal temperament scale is historically a development of just intonation (a "fork" in software terms). So it's not a coincidence that 12-tone equal temperament intervals are close to ratios of small whole numbers.