On Wednesday, 29. March 2006 18:22, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > 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. On my Yamaha S30 it's C3. So the range of a piano is A-1 to C7. This is also the notation used by rosegarden and muse... Dominic