On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:57:15PM +0200, Atte Andr?? Jensen wrote: > > >My real point is: I believe the octave names to be arbitrary. I've read once it's one octave difference between some brands. Someone on #lad said yamaha is one octave off from about everyone else. I guess that would be one octave up. Depends on if the first octave is 0 or 1(?). > Then, if I'm writing an application and want to conform to the majority > of apps, what do you and others here find the most usual. Let's take > midinote 60 (sits on the middle of my evolution keyboards), what would > you call that? C5? My Korg M1 and GEM S3 deem it a C4. AFAIR, so does Cubase. Cheers, Thorsten Wilms