Re: Code needed for reading, processing, writing sound files
Re: Code needed for reading, processing, writing sound files
- Subject: Re: Code needed for reading, processing, writing sound files
- From: Admiral Quality <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:46:40 -0500
Yes, there aren't any such rules in music. Also, Pi asked about a "key
agnostic" technique. Of course, chord progressions in any key all
follow the same relative note numbers. In Western music, there are
only 12 notes, all equally "spaced", so it doesn't matter where you
start (i.e. what key you're playing in), the relative intervals are
always the same.
I'm imagining he must be wanting to do something like an arpeggiator.
Surely it doesn't just clunk a single chord when you press a button?
And is it really just a piano sound or is he imagining some kind of
complex electronica? I've pointed him at some arpeggiator and chord
generator plug-ins so he can better understand the existing wheels
he's attempting to reinvent.
Anyway, this is a technology list and not a music theory one. As many
have already pointed out, we can't help you here with WHAT you want to
do, only how to achieve it on Apple hardware. But there are no doubt
many other lists out there where they'd love to discuss this. I'm sure
the gang at http://www.kvraudio.com would have lots and lots of free
advice for you, in either the "music theory" or "development" forums.
- AQ
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Hamish Allan <email@hidden> wrote:
> What a strange conversation. Different inversions of the same chords have
> different acoustic properties; for one thing, they imply different melodies.
> To say that one is more "proper" than another seems rather odd without
> further context than "all western classical piano music".
> H
> Please excuse the brevity -- sent from my iPad
> On 1 Dec 2010, at 18:12, Morgan Packard <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It would be more "proper" to move between the two chords in such a way as to
> minimize the distance the hand moves. Instead of going from
> C E G
> to
> G B D
> You'd go from
> C E G
> to
> B D G
> "Horrible" is a strong word for how the first voicing would sound. But it's
> certainly a little more graceful and classically correct-sounding to do
> something like the second voicing.
>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Rob Ross <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Pi wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > The difficulty I face is how to voice the chords... if I just do {C4 E4
>> > G4} for the C major chord, and {G4 B5 D5} for G, etc, it is going to sound
>> > horrible
>> >
>> > A pianist simply doesn't move from C to G like that. There is an art to
>> > voicing, so that each note attempts to move a minimal distance to its new
>> > resolution.
>> >
>>
>> I'm curious why you think this chord progression will sound "horrible." Is
>> this just what you *think* it will sound like or do you have an actual
>> subjective experience with this progression? I just played this on my piano
>> and it sounds fine to me.
>>
>> In fact, playing these two chords in succession suggests a tonic in C, and
>> so you have a I-V progression, one of the most common in Western music.
>>
>> So again, I'm curious why you think this is going to sound horrible?
>>
>>
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